Yes. I agree that I got lucky. I never denied that. There's no need to be rude about it. I'm not sitting over here bragging about this. I get asked this question a lot. And unfortunately the majority of my growth was luck.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Try or not, it does come across that way, at least to the author and myself.
I would have personally apologized if I offended someone by mistake, as opposed to asking not to "take it that way".
How would you feel if you took the time to write out your experience, and then some random person, just replied "you got lucky, and if you tried again you'd probably fail"?
Someone wrote this great post: dev.to/moopet/why-i-like-devto-58jc, I'd recommend you give it a read, specifically the part on people sharing experiences and being nice.
Kudos on the brilliant post by the way.
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Yes. I agree that I got lucky. I never denied that. There's no need to be rude about it. I'm not sitting over here bragging about this. I get asked this question a lot. And unfortunately the majority of my growth was luck.
I'm not trying to be; please don't take it that way.
Try or not, it does come across that way, at least to the author and myself.
I would have personally apologized if I offended someone by mistake, as opposed to asking not to "take it that way".
How would you feel if you took the time to write out your experience, and then some random person, just replied "you got lucky, and if you tried again you'd probably fail"?
Someone wrote this great post: dev.to/moopet/why-i-like-devto-58jc, I'd recommend you give it a read, specifically the part on people sharing experiences and being nice.
Kudos on the brilliant post by the way.