Are You a Good Programmer?

Oh yeah, I'm The Conqueror. And I'm not saying that as a gloat, either. I recognize my issues and deal with them. Keeping the code un-complex and working on front end stuff is my bane.

I once killed an open source game because the other devs couldn't understand how I'd implemented actions. They all quit. Even after I offered to remove my changes and we could do it another way. -sigh- (I still think it was the best way, though. lol)

I've met The Philosopher, too. If you meet a good one, make him be your mentor. It'll stroke his ego and up your game considerably!

Entertaining characterisation if nothing else, but also quite accurate at describing some known stereotypes as well! I suppose I am mostly The Inventor, with a bit of Problem Solver thrown in.

Interesting ... I think I've got a mix of these "personalities". I was more of a Philosopher when I was doing embedded programming since there's a huge and real cost involved if you ship 100,000 units with the wrong code (this was before you could reflash every little toy you bought).

Now I'm more of a conqueror ... there's often no cost to having a bug on a web application, so get the code out the door and deal with the bugs that are found later. You can still keep the code reasonably clean!

I'm a Problem Solver, but have some traits of an Inventor. I believe in being pragmatic, but also realize if you make the process dry + boring, it's not a good recipe for productivity, which is essential in solving problems. People say you should use the language you know best in creating a startup, but if it bores you to hell, you're better off using a new one