> "competent coders don't make mistakes" There's a bit of folklore that I can't remember correctly. One of the seven steps to becomming a hacker (in the pejora

> "competent coders don't make mistakes" There's a bit of folklore that I can't remember correctly. One of the seven steps to becomming a hacker (in the pejorative sense) is this kind of overconfidence, not to make mistakes. The last step is (the believe in) complete controle and omniscence. Another one, I guess, is insomnia. It hang as a poster in informatics class - fond memories.