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mberning on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Makes Great Programmers Different?

They spend time building useful things rather than getting caught up in online discussion forums.

TazeTSchnitzel on June 6, 2012 | [–]

I'm not a good programmer, because when I tell myself I will be programming, 2/3 of that time is spent reading Hacker News instead.

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