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by lawlorino 2293 days ago
> contributed thousands of lines of features/fixes/optimizations to high profile projects, all the while never being granted responsibility greater than what you’d give a middle school intern

Am I being a bit dim or did they immediately contradict themselves here?

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A lot of people, I suspect including the author, consider "responsibility" to exclusively mean the power to tell other people what to do.
I read that sentence like 8 times trying to figure out how the first part tied into the latter part. I may be similarly dim.