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Ask HN: How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here

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Re: Ask HN: How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here

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FWIW, I'm 40 and have been programming professionally for 15 years, and programming as a hobby for probably 8 years before that. I still run across stuff I don't understand, all the time. And I'm not one of those people who have "1 year of experience 15 times" instead of "15 years of experience". I'm pretty aggressive about learning new stuff and expanding my horizons. And yet the pace of change is so fast, there's a…

Wonderful response, thanks. I have attempted a handful of open source utilities and none of them ever received any activity from others at all. I would love to maintain a project or just work with others in general since I'm working in isolated 'for myself' territory.

What are these utilities and how would I find them? It might be worth investing in some SEO experimentation to make sure you're stuff's actually findable by those who'd be interested.

Re: Ask HN: How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here

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Like everyone else here? I hate to burst your bubble but the vast majority of the programmers here are not nearly even close to as good as you think they are. Mostly they're good at talking like they are and memorizing obscure facts about computer science. The reality is that everyone who codes pretty much sucks at it or they get lucky a couple times and do something significant. The same goes for painters, musicians…

i've been playing guitar for 25 years and I still am not SRV, but i do have a few good chops. I've been coding for about 8 years, and if I compared it to guitar playing, it's like playing an arpeggio, so many ways and so easy to fuck up.. but fun as hell to play!

Re: Ask HN: How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here

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Like everyone else here? I hate to burst your bubble but the vast majority of the programmers here are not nearly even close to as good as you think they are. Mostly they're good at talking like they are and memorizing obscure facts about computer science. The reality is that everyone who codes pretty much sucks at it or they get lucky a couple times and do something significant. The same goes for painters, musicians…

simple answer, a lot of heroin.
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