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It's really hard to know how competent you are in any field, if you are incompetent. There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. The problem
by lee 14y ago
It's really hard to know how competent you are in any field, if you are incompetent.
There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. The problem with really bad programmers, is that the unknown unknowns for them are really large... so they have no ability to gauge just how incompetent they are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
- ifewalter 14y agoOn the contrary,when you get better at coding, just like mathematics,whe you compare your codes with others programmers and are comfortable with the similar code patterns and habits, thats one of the indications that you're becoming a great programmer, just like mathematics.
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