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Re:What Makes Great Programmers Different? by lee on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:51AM (#4074141)
It's really hard to know how competent you are in any field, if you are incompetent.

There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. The problem with really bad programmers, is that the unknown unknowns for them are really large... so they have no ability to gauge just how incompetent they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

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Re:What Makes Great Programmers Different? by ifewalter on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @01:00PM (#4074858)
On the contrary,when you get better at coding, just like mathematics,whe you compare your codes with others programmers and are comfortable with the similar code patterns and habits, thats one of the indications that you're becoming a great programmer, just like mathematics.
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