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"Many good programmers have a certain arrogance" No, I don't think so. Or at least it's not needed to be a good programmer. It's just that if you also have oth
by goodmornings 12y ago
"Many good programmers have a certain arrogance"
No, I don't think so. Or at least it's not needed to be a good programmer. It's just that if you also have other qualities people don't have to excuse your behavior by how good a programmer you are.
- lmm 12y agohttp://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
- goodmornings 12y agoThat's just another example of this cultures weird relationship with personal qualities. The good version of laziness, impatience and hubris is efficiency, passion and confidence. But if you call it efficiency those who are lazy, or at least hide their decision behind the acceptance of laziness, gets upset. So you instead have to say that you are lazy, but in a good way. Of course there is also people who hide their decision behind the idea of efficiency.
- lmm 12y agoCall it confidence if you prefer; my original point goes through all the same.
- goodmornings 12y agoI don't think that thinking other people suck is good way to develop confidence. At least not without experience. If women for the sake of confidence should learn that people suck, it's that most programmers do, not that most women do. I'd rather they develop confidence through experience with programming rather than arrogance toward other programmers. Since the problem with arrogance is that it almost always clashes with reality.