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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀

@sobolevn great post. Kind of late reading but very inspiring. I can also be seen as a midiocre developer.

I am also looking up the most trivial things about a language or concept because I want to make sure I remember them correctly or because I don't have the capacity to remember them all.

Heck I was recently asked on an interview to describe programming concepts that I half knew or did not know at all and it felt embarrassing for a brief period after the interview since I have been doing web development for more than 15 years.

Later on I came to the realization that its OK to not remember all those concepts. I personally would not call you or me or anyone on similar boat midiocre developer.

With all the different areas of development to be explored the last few years its not possible to know or remember them all by heart. Each one of us gets accustomed mostly to the ones that are often or recently used. The strong point of a developer should be that given a problem to find a good, practical solution that stays within time limit and budget.