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    "title": "Why Each Programmer Thinks He Is The Best",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2021-03-06 20:34:50 UTC",
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        "2021-03-06 20:34:50 UTC",
        "2021-03-06 20:35:23 UTC",
        "2021-03-06 20:37:21 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>I write code that is easy to read and uses intuitive data structures. Everyone else uses weird solutions and writes them poorly.</p>\n<p>My innovations are clever responses to unusual circumstances. Everyone else\u00e2\u0080\u0099s are obviously weird.</p>\n<p>Every time I have to fix someone\u00e2\u0080\u0099s code, their code is terrible. I never hear about my own code being terrible and in need of fixing. Every time I need to touch my own code again it is because it is so good my customers want to make another use of it.</p>\n<p>If someone uses my software it is because it is good code. If they use competing software it is because of their clever marketing.</p>\n<p>If I copy code from Stack Exchange I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m being efficient. If someone else does it they couldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t do it themselves.</p>\n<p>If I use an obscure language or library, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m leveraging my unusual skillset. If someone else does it, they\u00e2\u0080\u0099re prioritizing their own convenience over maintainability.</p>\n<p>If someone like John Carmack is just better than me at programming in every way it is because they are in a special heroic reference class that it would be unfair to compare me to but that I obviously aspire to.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Lifted entirely from <a href=\"https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/02/why-doctors-think-theyre-the-best/#comment-836896\">https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/02/why-doctors-think-theyre-the-best/#comment-836896</a> with light editing and reformatting. (You should read the parent article as well.)</p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"/post/2013/09/17/the-devils-dictionary-for-developers/\">The Devil's Dictionary for Developers</a>.</p>\n"
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