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A comment on Ask HN: How do you know if you're a good dev or not?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you know if you're a good dev or not? by larrymcp on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @05:45PM (#9815419)
At first I thought I was a great dev because my boss routinely praises me as an unqualified genius and savior of the company! And this is like 2 to 3 times a week.

But then I jump on HN and read all the "Signs you're a bad developer" articles and discover that I'm actually a two-bit mediocre hack.

I dunno.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you know if you're a good dev or not? by rokhayakebe on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @08:38PM (#9816236)
I guess you would want to take praises from someone who knows what you do. If your boss is not a qualified engineer you may want to understand his/her praise as "you are a great problem solver," which would be 100% correct.
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