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Discussion on: The "Fake Developer" Conundrum

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Ben Halpern

I used to be terrified to going to meetups, because I felt like a real developer when I had Google/Stack Overflow/docs etc. But in the nakedness of "standing around and talking", I felt like the fakest developer on the planet.

It helped to try and look back to a past self where I knew even less and realize how much more I knew now compared to then.

And eventually, weirdly, I stopped feeling this way altogether. Now I'm just a plain old real developer...like I always was.

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Mary Thompson

I'm still no good at talking about programming. The terms are a lot to digest, but I can explain in layman terms or do better just showing you. But I feel even faker for not being able to contribute to Stack Overflow not to mention my lack of a GitHub presence.