Are You a Good Programmer?(techiferous.com)
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Are You a Good Programmer?
http://techiferous.com/2011/08/are-you-a-good-programmer
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Entertaining characterisation if nothing else, but also quite accurate at describing some known stereotypes as well! I suppose I am mostly The Inventor, with a bit of Problem Solver thrown in.
Interesting ... I think I've got a mix of these "personalities". I was more of a Philosopher when I was doing embedded programming since there's a huge and real cost involved if you ship 100,000 units with the wrong code (this was before you could reflash every little toy you bought).
Now I'm more of a conqueror ... there's often no cost to having a bug on a web application, so get the code out the door and deal with the bugs that are found later. You can still keep the code reasonably clean!
Now I'm more of a conqueror ... there's often no cost to having a bug on a web application, so get the code out the door and deal with the bugs that are found later. You can still keep the code reasonably clean!
I'm a Problem Solver, but have some traits of an Inventor. I believe in being pragmatic, but also realize if you make the process dry + boring, it's not a good recipe for productivity, which is essential in solving problems. People say you should use the language you know best in creating a startup, but if it bores you to hell, you're better off using a new one
I once killed an open source game because the other devs couldn't understand how I'd implemented actions. They all quit. Even after I offered to remove my changes and we could do it another way. -sigh- (I still think it was the best way, though. lol)
I've met The Philosopher, too. If you meet a good one, make him be your mentor. It'll stroke his ego and up your game considerably!