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My thoughts exactly 
You'll find a lot of bad programmers on sites like CP and SO, but it's difficult to find good programmers that aren't on CP or SO!
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Sander Rossel wrote: You'll find a lot of bad programmers on sites like CP and SO, but it's difficult to find good programmers that aren't on CP or SO!
in other words... What was first? the chicken or the egg?  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Yeah! Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of that do!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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To be fair, I voted I'm the best in my team mostly to skew the results.
TBH I don't even assume I'm the best in the room - even when I'm alone 
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It really doesn't matter who's the best.
Who's measuring it anyway? How do you measure it in a meaningful way?
I've worked with good devs that were just awful team members. Some others where seen as not so good just because they misplaced in the team (not in their correct role).
It really depends and is too subjective.
Currently my main project includes different technologies so we have a lot of good people from different fields. So at the end, and by this question logic, we have a lot of best-in-the-team members 
The most important and also difficult thing is actually to make all of them (more than 30) work as a real team. Some members try to stand out the crowd in a not so unified way and that causes problems.
The management still has to find a proper way to avoid finger-pointing and get-all-the-credit issues but most of the time is their fault anyway.
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I have voted "top 10% in my team" and I think that is the case. 
However, I would also like to compete all so-called smart developers here, not just in my team but in entire company. It's a shame that my suggestion a few months back to conduct such coding competitions was shown the dustbin. 
So my question is, do any of you have such competitions organized in your company?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Yes, but only for promotions. It can get pretty ugly too; meaning: cheating, yelling and screaming, and grievances. I'd prefer promotions be based on merit, quality of work, and being a team player, than just based on technical skills.
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You have the airing of grievances all year? What about the feats of strength?
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No we don't. I like the idea of contests outside of work, but not at work.
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jgakenhe wrote: I'd prefer promotions be based on merit, quality of work, and being a team player, than just based on technical skills.
In an ideal world... it would be like that. But... Have you ever heard the joke of the 1st day of the human body and the discussion of the organs to see who would be the boss?
M.D.V. 
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20% of time coding.
40% of time testing.
20% of time documentation.
20% of time other. (writing bugs, learning, meetings, sending messages on CP  , etc.)
So if you're the best at coding, you're the best at doing 20% of the work and there is still another 80% to account for. Fair enough... If you're the best at coding, chances are you are probably going to spend more in the region of 40% of your time coding.
These percentages is in any case for the industry I'm working in, and I'm sure it varies depending on the industry you're working in.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Because I don't eat bacon and I have to admit I've never worked with a CListCtrl...
We were talking about writing actual code? In that case I'm the best (like Gaston) 
*Flies away*
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Sander Rossel wrote: *Flies away*
Sorry, your plane got stuck in my spaghetti code! And it's full of CListCtrls! 
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After all these plane crashes I prefer to just flap my arms really hard...
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It was a soft landing for you because of all those code repetitions being like long-chain polymers - springy and stringy
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Don't know  .
I'm probably the best when it concerns design and architecture, but there others who are better in web development or image processing. Moreover we all work on different projects so it is hard to compare and if, finally, you would discuss "what's best", opinions often differ.
So in the end what matters is that I spit out something that works (well)
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I know I am the best, I can write code in efficient way, but the TIME given for Development, TEAM SIZE (that supports and Divide my tasks), DEAD LINES, SCOPE of CODE (May be not fixed much time), Requirements, always matters.
No matter How BEST developer you are, but if you running lack of above things you can not accomplish your task in GIVEN TIME and that will remove the "BEST developer" crown from you.
I think everyone has GOOD skill set that is capable to prove him/her as BEST developer but opportunity, support, task and TIME matters...!
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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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There are 3 possibilities... GOOD, FAST and CHEAP. Please choose only two
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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