Ask HN: How do you go from good to great Programmer?

Post by azemetre » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 9:28 PM UTC

thrwwycbr wrote: post #25

> How do you go from good to great Programmer You learn go for that. Sorry. I think a great way to improve your codebase is to write unit tests, integration tests and by using languages with more types than say, JavaScript or PHP. If the language has a lot of conventions for types, you can add satisfiability resolvers (SAT resolvers) and what kind of assumed safety/security comes with that. Also, do capture the flag…

Post by binary132 » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 2:01 AM UTC

programjames wrote: post #40

binary132 wrote: post #37

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The point is that Carmack's work was extremely influential. That wouldn't have been true if he wasn't technically great, but technically great work can fail to have any influence whatsoever. Which is greater?

You keep repeating the same idea: they're a great programmer because they're influential. You seem to be missing the point everyone else is trying to make: being a great programmer has nothing to do with being influential. Lisp is a great programming language, yet very few people use it. C++ and Javascript? Practically viruses, but every browser relies on them. Yes, it's true that many great programmers are also high…

Post by aristofun » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 4:37 PM UTC

binary132 wrote: post #38

aristofun wrote: post #31

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> which is very useful to lots of people, or even just to your team or company, _that's_ great agree but you don't need to inspire anyone to do that You just need to be great at engineering and have some empathy to your end users

I didn't say anything about inspiring anyone