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Funny how people who write articles are what makes a good on their programming blogs often include "writes a programming blog" as one of the attributes a good c

by almost 18y ago

Funny how people who write articles are what makes a good on their programming blogs often include "writes a programming blog" as one of the attributes a good candidate should have... Hmmm, maybe my comment should read as: "it doesn't perfectly describe me in every way, hence it's a terrible list" ;) I'm getting too many 2's damnit!

nihilocrat 18y ago
On the same note, I don't see how 'trying out' a DVCS makes you suddenly level 3 on the "source code and version control" metric. Programmer competency articles are sort of a macho, nerdy equivalent of "do these pants make my butt look big?"
- monkeybusiness 18y ago
  Yep. It's a dick measuring contest, geek-style. At least I'm going to call it that since I did so badly. It's amazing I get anything done. And yet . . . I do.
  - arohner 18y ago
    It absolutely is, but it is slightly useful to at least attempt to measure competency. Though, this chart implies all skills are equally worthwhile. There's another extremely important category missing here, which I'll call "solving the right problem". It might need to be split into a technical side and a business/marketing side. Solving the customer's actual problem, and using the correct technical approach vastly outweighs many of the categories listed.
    - banned_man 18y ago
      "Solving the right problem" is like the skill of "big picture thinking". It's clearly important, but the evaluation of it is subjective and case-based. What's nice about this tool is that it's relatively objective, for the most part, although it certainly doesn't paint a complete picture of what makes a good programmer (which is context-driven, in any case).
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gaius 18y ago
Kinda like how ESR's "How to be a hacker" article is actually "How to be more like me".
eru 18y ago
You should strive for level 4: O(1).
- hs 18y ago
  for that, you need to be a mathematician like coming up with n(n+1)/2 to sum integers from 1 to n
  - eru 18y ago
    Reminds that I should come up with a O(1/log(n)) algorithm.

by almost 18y ago

nihilocrat 18y ago

On the same note, I don't see how 'trying out' a DVCS makes you suddenly level 3 on the "source code and version control" metric. Programmer competency articles are sort of a macho, nerdy equivalent of "do these pants make my butt look big?"

monkeybusiness 18y ago
Yep. It's a dick measuring contest, geek-style. At least I'm going to call it that since I did so badly. It's amazing I get anything done. And yet . . . I do.
- arohner 18y ago
  It absolutely is, but it is slightly useful to at least attempt to measure competency. Though, this chart implies all skills are equally worthwhile. There's another extremely important category missing here, which I'll call "solving the right problem". It might need to be split into a technical side and a business/marketing side. Solving the customer's actual problem, and using the correct technical approach vastly outweighs many of the categories listed.
  - banned_man 18y ago
    "Solving the right problem" is like the skill of "big picture thinking". It's clearly important, but the evaluation of it is subjective and case-based. What's nice about this tool is that it's relatively objective, for the most part, although it certainly doesn't paint a complete picture of what makes a good programmer (which is context-driven, in any case).
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gaius 18y ago

Kinda like how ESR's "How to be a hacker" article is actually "How to be more like me".

eru 18y ago

You should strive for level 4: O(1).

hs 18y ago
for that, you need to be a mathematician like coming up with n(n+1)/2 to sum integers from 1 to n
- eru 18y ago
  Reminds that I should come up with a O(1/log(n)) algorithm.