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Three Types of Programmers
- burlesona 9y agoI'm not sure if the examples given of the tradeoffs between "engineers," "mathematicians," and "writers" quite matches my experience, but in general this strikes me as a pretty useful way to think of the personalities of the good senior engineers I've worked with. I definitely agree with his sentiment that the best teams will combine the three, as their strengths and weaknesses compliment each other. I especially appreciate the bit at the end, which I think is a pretty spot-on description of the divide I perceive as an engineer mostly in the Ruby community who loves Ruby but isn't a huge fan of Rails. Interested to hear what anyone else thinks :)