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Ask HN: How do you know if you're becoming a better hacker?
Do you rely on the input of others, or do you just trust yourself to make a fair assessment?
- bootload 18y ago"... How do you know if you're becoming a better hacker? ..." Maybe this article (Great Hackers: Recognition) might help ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
- pmorici 18y agoBeware the Dunning-Kruger effect
- Tichy 18y agoI like this quote from the Wikipedia article: "Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy." It's such a nice formulation ;-)
- ScottWhigham 18y agoThis strikes me as just a weird question; one of those, "What kind of person asks that question?" type of questions (and I mean no offense by that lol). It's like asking, "Am I pretty/handsome?" Well, do people tell you that you are? Do you notice people that you think are pretty/handsome staring at you? If so, there's a chance you are.
- NewWorldOrder 18y agoThe question is meant in a different vein. This article http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391794/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/... suggests that people that become "great" practice deliberately over a long period of time. Measuring how much better you're becoming is easier in some practices than in others. Assuming everybody wants to become great hackers, how can you practice deliberately such that you reach this "greatness?" Without some way of measuring how good you're becoming this is pretty difficult to do.