Tom Hudson
Sep 9, 2018 · 1 min read

Are you serious? You felt the need to call a guy who has been through such terrible things, and all that kept him going was the desire to do programming, “mediocre".

You are a pretty mediocre human being for saying this. Your “advice” could have been worded a lot better.

Most developers have an in built imposter syndrome which comments like this only exacerbate.

It’s people like you that give other developers the bad rep of being arrogant, self important social retards.

I have barley anything on my Github account because everything I code is for my job and hidden away from the world, and any personal stuff isn’t on there either. This doesn’t mean I don’t have a portfolio of work I can show off. ..

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