[artsyca]

Oh c'mon get over yourself

Humble people don't go around talking about how humble they are, much less sideways virtue signalling on how patient and pathetic they are.

If you're going to blow your own trumpet out of the side of your mouth you should consider a career in politics and leave program writing to the professionals.

Edit! Oh that's not hubristic enough you milk fed cherry pickers? Why not report me to the principal!

[dang]

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and supercilious disses to HN? It's not good discussion, regardless of how badly other people are flawed.

You've unfortunately posted like this a lot, and it's not in the intended spirit of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[Supermancho]

> Humble people don't go around talking about how humble they are,

I'm wrong all the time. It's in my signatures - Often wrong, but never in doubt (source: Garfield). I'm decisive and I make mistakes and those behaviors are not at odds.

It's important to remember that no matter how trivial the programming task, you are likely to have made a mistake somewhere and that's why everything should be tested, code reviewed, etc. People don't re-read their code often enough and these practices force it.

[JadeNB]

> It's important to remember that no matter how trivial the programming task, you are likely to have made a mistake somewhere and that's why everything should be tested, code reviewed, etc.

A good time to roll out Knuth's "I have only proven this code correct, not tested it", and, less slogan-y but maybe more convincing, "Nearly all binary sorts and merge sorts are broken" (https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...).