I saw a video of a one-armed American high school kid, Porter Ellet, playing one of my favourite sports basketball. Not only did he manage himself against the others, but he is actually the team’s leader in scoring with only a single arm!
That really requires determination to Get Things Done. And that is a quality what we all software developers should have. To get things done in the best possible technical manner, despite of managerial and technical obstacles. It is easy to just get thing working, but to really finish of with robust, readable and testable code that meets all the possible requirements that the client didn’t event think would exists, is a whole different thing. It requires determination to give that extra push, that separetes the best software from the average.
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