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I wish someone told me this back when I was trying to get a programming job as a self taught programmer. I would do things like try to build a simple React clone thinking it would help me overcome imposter syndrome to fully understand things from the base up, but it was pretty futile because no one really has time to wrap their head around something that big unless they are paid full time to do it.


I have a saying that program's complexity is always exactly equal to the human-intelligible complexity + 1.

If not, the developer would add one more feature. It is due to the entirely human-made aspect of this discipline.


i did build a react clone in a long weekend. but I built the first 90% that takes 10% of the time and not the last 10% that takes 90% of time.




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