1) Over-engineering a simple problem in order to look like a big shot.
2) Inability or refusal to explain one’s solution in clear, concise terms in order to make the solution look difficult or impressive.

What else?

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$staff(extended from person)-->type='slow';
switch($company->resources)
low:'How you wan to paid my salary';
low staff:' don't complain much,you paid penaut you get monkey;
}
sleep(24/7);
}
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Firstly, English is not my native language. So, I hope you understand my ideas regardless of my grammatical mistakes.

I think (MHO) that:

Drive = motivation to accomplish something. Be it, money, desire to change the world, passion, etc. So drive is not always passion… specially passion for programming or software development.

Time = Time.
You can be the person with the biggest perseverance in the world. But, if you are a wage slave for a big IT company, developing pieces of software comparable to nuts and bolts for that ever behind schedules big software which the final result remembers a Titanic, hardly you’ll have time to feed your passion by developing beautiful projects. And even if you have some spare time, you need remaining “brain power” too.

Skill
My utopian opinion is that you can reach skill with perseverance + time + drive + “brain power” + hard work. Talent appears to be a natural facility to grasp certain things; something that you were inherently born with. So, someone born with talent for programming, who never coded, will have less programming skill then someone without talent who, however, worked hard to gain programming skills.

And, someone with programming skills and talent, but who lacks drive, which is directly linked with lack of creativity, can eventually be surpassed by some talentless purpose driven hard worker.

knowledge
This is a word which mean changes as the discussion scope changes.
Some people, like Peter Drucker, saw “knowledge” like information being applied. So, when you think about an apple, your brain reunites distinct types of information (size, color, odor, taste, shape) to generate an apple in your mind. This process of reunite and apply information would be what is called “knowledge”. But this is discussion about knowledge is a never ending one.

I think that you acquire new information, by means of experience, to generate better knowledge when necessary.

Cheers,

Hyperluz

I’m a physicist. Every writes some software, maybe just a 200 line data analysis script, maybe it’s a massive simulation, maybe he invents the World Wide Web.

Yet whatever he does or she does, software is probably not their main job. It’s just a bit of fun or a chore on the side, one that ought to be done well, without taking to much time.

Do you think your guidelines scale down?

Don’t forget the bad programmers though, they are just as numerous as the good ones… or at least numerous enough to weigh down the average.