Google Is My University

google Selftaught Education Imposter syndrome Developer life Search-driven development

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Google Is My University

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Who needs a $100k computer science degree when Stack Overflow exists? While lawyers and doctors spend years in prestigious institutions learning their craft, developers just frantically Google error messages at 3 AM and somehow ship working code. The best part? We're getting paid roughly the same salary to essentially be professional Googlers with impostor syndrome. My diploma is just a curated collection of search queries that accidentally resulted in functional code.

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