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What skills doth a good developer possess?

5 pointsby mohitabout 14 years ago

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brianwillisabout 14 years ago
At the bottom of the table humility is marked as a "must have" for everyone. I disagree completely. I'm from the "laziness, impatience, and hubris" school of thinking popularised by Larry Wall: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Virtues_of_a_programmer" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Virtues_of_a_program...</a><p>I'm not trying to argue that people are justified in being rude, cruel, or impolite as a matter of course. It just takes a certain degree of arrogance to look at the state of the world and declare that you can do better. Yet innovation would never happen without people doing exactly that.