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There is one surefire sign you're a bad programmer: faced with a problem, your reaction is "pshaw, I see how I can solve this..." Whereas a good programmer has
by its_so_on 15y ago
There is one surefire sign you're a bad programmer: faced with a problem, your reaction is "pshaw, I see how I can solve this..."
Whereas a good programmer has the reaction,
"uh-oh. I see how I can solve this..."
And knows that this is just half the battle, and what he's getting himself into.
- skizm 15y agoOy, I used to do this all the time... till I stared sitting down to solve some of those problems. That was about the time I started saying "uh-oh". I (think) I have moved on from this phase fortunately.
- pnathan 15y agoWell, that's just experience. After a while, you lose your confidence that you are the new hawtness, and you start seeing all the ways things can go wrong... and ways you can avoid them.