I agree wholeheartedly with most of the article, except for this: "To put it more simply (and, perhaps, too obviously): if you see someone excitedly grabbing p

I agree wholeheartedly with most of the article, except for this: "To put it more simply (and, perhaps, too obviously): if you see someone excitedly grabbing problems and acting on them, chances are you have a good programmer on your hands"("They just do it") it depends on the type of person someone is, more than the quality of the programmer. I know bad programmers who are excited to jump from problem to problem (never doing much good on any of them). And I know great programmers who think twice about taking a problem - because they are working on something else and wish to finish it properly, because they want to think it through,... there are many reasons. Also, I wonder how many of us identify ourselves with the good ones? As someone said, it is very interesting to observe that about 80% of programmers are in top 5%. ;)