I occasionally would like to know how good of a programmer I am. I have obsevered that nearly every programmer I know thinks they are well above average, so I assume that I am subject to the same bias ...

Why are some people so prickly? They gain nothing by being difficult and nasty, but their insecurity makes the rest of our lives difficult and doesn’t help their cause at all. At my company, “Jean” ...

Like babies, most code is born beautiful, at least in the eye of its creator. But the only time I ever heard one programmer praise another’s code was prerelease. In this newborn state, the code ...

...only this time, in reference to the average number of lines of code each programmer on a particular team should be responsible for supporting/maintaining. Because of all the variables involved, I ...