• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Either that or it becomes my new personality for weeks because I managed to figure it out along the way. Then, after spending too much time and money on it, it’s completely abandoned.

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    And then the ADHD superpower of being able to get pretty good at it and do all the hard work necessary to complete the project, leaving only the easy yet boring work. One day you’ll get to that and finish the project. One day.

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    1 month ago

    That’s not ADHD man, that’s “fake it 'til you make it”.

    That’s how I’m still in this job.

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    That’s how I learned PHP in a week with no Internet or reference books. Had a couple open source projects on a thumb drive, an a strong urge to eat sometime that month. Reverse engineered one project into a movie rental system, and sold it to a gas station for $500.

    God, that code was awful