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Three Virtues of a Programmer
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Three Virtues of a Programmer | |
How to make Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris Work for You. | |
Many would consider laziness, impatience, and hubris to be qualities that are better left checked at the door in a professional environment. Others consider them virtues and core components of the most efficent programmers and IT people. What is it that makes these qualities virtuous? How do they relate to each other? And how can we wield them in a way that helps us succeed? We will entertain how these qualities will help us become more productive, more useful, and more awesome in general. | |
About Nathan | |
Nathan Kelley has been passionately writing software since his early years of 10/20/30 BASIC on a Tandy TRS-80 Model III, in 1983, when he was 6. Since then he has developed software as an in-house-developer for companies of many shapes and sizes in many different industries. He is currently a Senior Application Developer / Release Manager / DevOps Reactor for Cellular Sales of Knoxville, Inc. One of the fastest growing brick and mortar retailers in the country. He received “Outstanding Student Award in Computer & Information Science” (and graduated summa cum laud) from Walter State Community College in 2007. He loves developing software, messing with technology, and challenging people. His goal in life is to suck a little bit less every day. |
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