Signs That You're a Good Programmer

1) This is just HN clickbait.<p>2) The symptoms are largely hipster BS. ThinkGeek, Referal links to specific books, really?<p>3) A destructive pursuit of perfection is the sign of <i>incompetence</i> and is frequently career ending when combined with this symptom: &quot;Contempt for delivery dates&quot;. The mere fact this was put to paper is proof the OP is completely worthless. If a developer can&#x27;t produce an acceptable, working product on a reasonable deadline <i>they get fired</i>.

Eager to fix what isn&#x27;t broken should be more like getting better at your job over a period of time. Sitting around and rewriting apps that work perfectly to make cleaner&#x2F;optimized code is not usually a good use of time. But taking lessons learned from one project to do better on the next is expected.<p>No matter who writes an app, the next person in charge of it thinks it was written terribley and wants to rewrite it. This is a vicious circle and I have seen lots of development teams never achieve anything that really helps the business or users because of this. Be careful of ever being eager to fix what truly isn&#x27;t broken.

signs that you&#x27;re good at writing clickbait on HN

This list is kinda terrible. I know horrible engineers that can&#x27;t get a single line in production code who match every one of these traits

Interesting discussion from a previous post (about 3 years ago): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5607823" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5607823</a>

A dupe of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9167008" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9167008</a>.

A lot of these have a good amount of overlap with: &quot;Signs That You&#x27;re a Sociopath&quot;

I think probably these are signs of a good programmer. But i wouldn&#x27;t worry too much about how you compare to these things. To be a good programmer, program.