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Discussion on: Has becoming a developer changed you?

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Adrian B.G.

Definitely,

  • I write everything as a list now days
  • more pragmatic and efficient (I try to let it go once in a while)
  • higher attention to details (sometimes I feel like sherlock holmes, noticing stuff that others do not)
  • failure scenarios (or paranoia) - I cannot stop analyze every action or scenario where something will go wrong. "If you leave this chair here most likely someone will open that door and trip over it" kind of things. I smell disasters miles away :))

Less friends (but higher quality) definitely, but I do not think is a causality effect from my profession. I think the pragmatism was inside all along, and my profession just made it shine.

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Kevin Lewis

Yes to all of this! I think problem solving and pragmatism are two points I can relate to heavily.

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Ben Sinclair

The scenarios thing is something I identify with - it's like when you learn an instrument and suddenly start analysing every song that comes on.

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Andžs

Big plus from me on attention to details and foreseeing problems.

Once you've seen things go wrong, you cant's stop yourself avoiding them even where is not your responsibility.

Devil is on the details. With that comes affection to debug complex things, it can get really frustrating but so rewarding once you figure it out. In the end you hate yourself for spending so much time on it but proud, because others didn't had patience to do it.