Do you know any programmers that exhibit these personality traits…?
I’ve been observing an unusual programmer friend of mine for some time now. (Yeah… a “friend”, that’s it….) He has such a strange combination of potential and incompetence that its hard to tell if he is just lazy or if he has a “light” form of autism or some other disorder. I try to avoid “easy” pop-psychology terms when discussing him, but try to be as specific as possible when listing his qualities:
Do you know any programmers that exhibit these personality traits…? « Learning Lisp.
Yes, this is me to a T. Most resonant is the part about the “Inability to manage or even to “see” certain classes of “mundane” details.” and “Capable of coming up with good project ideas on his own, but does not take on projects for the purposes of finishing them”.
For me, I like finding interesting projects with complex solutions, but actualy implementing the solutions can be numbingly boring.
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