What are you best at? We can't all be great at everything, but we all have certain skills which set us apart. What is it for you?
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What are you best at? We can't all be great at everything, but we all have certain skills which set us apart. What is it for you?
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I'm a big fan of the following flow chart:
Just wish I could figure out someway to convey this idea as a tattoo.
Hello.
I am stealing this.
Thank you.
Hello.
I don't own it so go ahead.
Thank you.
I literally tell my girlfriend this probably at least 2 - 3 times a week. "Why worry about something you can't control? You're just putting yourself through it twice".
My colleagues treat me like a living encyclopedia.
But I don't think it's my best trait. On the contrary, it may have a detrimental effect in the long run. And I think I'm not very good at controlling this.
Maybe because I've graduated in Mathematics and not CS, I've always been pretty comfortable at grasping the big picture of a project. Never lose sight of the goal (thesis), divide the problems, follow the implications and such.
Also, I've never had any problems with mathematical formulae, logical expressions and geometry. Always useful, even in web development.
If one person is tasked with having that encyclopedic knowledge...
The Problem With Heroes In Software Development
Beekey Cheung ・ Sep 23 '17 ・ 5 min read
Precisely on point.
Not that we actually face emergencies, but giving away punctual notions usually doesn't help your colleagues grow. And that's a problem, or at least a missed opportunity.
It's definitely a problem if developers start relying on that.
I've suggested my boss to let me (and other seniors too) create internal courses and classes, especially now that we're growing. I would love that, really, not to mention we could also sell the courses outside the company.
But this idea hasn't taken off yet: we can't "sacrifice" our seniors' time to that. Oh well, I hope that'll change ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think I'm a good teacher and I enjoy explaining difficult technical concepts to those who're just starting out.
Other than that, I have debugging superpowers (I'm known to have spent days searching for am missing comma on a 3rd party library to fix a bug they were having, which ended-up affecting us).
I also love teaching others and having mutual knowledge exchanges with people.
Telling people who ask us to do crazy things "no"
A true god among men right here.
People ask me...
This is my greatest development skill.
I get the opposite question: "How do you work in IT and not drink coffee/energy drinks?"
While I am skilled in many areas, I love automation!!! Some might not think it's a development skill, but automating things can be efficient, productive, and smooth with proper utilization of tools and correctly interfacing with APIs and years of experience. I don't just use AutoHotkey, AutoIt, or AutoKey (Linux), I use various languages integrated with each other as many programs do. I debug well too :D
Finding where you can automate is really cool as well as where it's not possible to automate. And then having to tell the client that haha 😄👏👍.
I am not very happy with the state of automation of UWP (or limit/lack thereof) :(. Though I haven't spent much time researching the state of UWP automation, but that's because I am not a fan of UWP in general. Slowly, but surely, I guess lol.
Remembering that I have solved things before, which means I can solve whatever it is I'm "stuck" on.
And that nobody has ever died because of code I wrote.
Lol ! Haha ! 😂😂
Vague memories of things I touched ages ago.
Haha 😂😅😱💥
I feel comfortable debugging an issue. One memory that I sometimes remember is when i spent two entire days on encoding. I was working on a Python project (i learn as i go, i don't know python, i just adapt) and we had some serious problems with some generated reports. Loved that task.
I'm a master debugger and can figure out repro steps for even the most bizarre cases. This is probably due to my help desk origins.
I came to say the same thing!
I worked at my college's IT dept and I feel it was key to how I debug issues.
It even helps when debugging non-tech issues. For example:
hm, my office is cold even though we put in new insulation. What provides the heat? Furnace. Is that working? Yes. Other rooms are heated. What if I'm losing heat? Possible. What changed? Insulation was put in. Noted, but how could that make it colder? Check the vent, hm. Some hot air but not nearly enough. Maybe my room is further from the furnace? Nope. Other farther rooms are heated. Time to get into the crawlspace. Turns out the insulation workers knocked the vent loose!
Same thing with code: What are the conditions the bug occurs in? What about when it doesn't? What's changed? Does it happen in all cases? If not, when does it? When did it start? ...etc etc.
It's even become a problem when watching TV. I think my debugging skill makes it easy to predict what's going to happen or be said. The plots, jokes, dialogue, and "twists" become predictable, mostly because it's easy to catch things because they only show things that are relevant. It's still enjoyable though, it's just a fun game I play. It used to drive my spouse nuts but now she's picked it up too!
This is very cool!
I feel like I'm pretty good at picking stuff up and running with it, even if I haven't had much exposure to it before. Another tangential skill I have is sticking with a difficult problem when others might give up.
I will admit though, the latter sometimes results in me being the keeper/expert on certain things that I don't love.
The only thing I'm good at is that I can read very fast (700 - 1000 wpm). It really helps when going over books, docs, or example code. I actually prefer reading over videos or podcasts because of that.
I'm a great problem solver and debugger, I know the right place where I can put a logging statement in the code.
My StackOverflow reputation can confirm it!
Not loosing my mind when stuff doesn't work.
LOL, great examples :)
I've run out of f*cks to give. My f*uck bucket is empty.
I learned this from my co-worker. If there's a problem just ask "is anyone dead or dying? Could someone be killed (because of this problem/emergency/urgent interruption"
No? Ok, it's not that bad then. It helps put things in perspective quickly.