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What skill does programming teach you most?

14 Mar 2011 to 21 Mar 2011 Software development endows its practitioners with an interesting set of skills. Which do you feel summarise your abilities best?

Text entry answers for sorted by frequency of occurrance.

(8) Patience
(5) CListCtrl
(2) problem solving
(2) Bacon
(1) bacon / CListCtrl
(1) Bacon Interfaces
(1) Bacon's Godlike Capabilities
(1) but first of all... how "little insects" can be dangerous
(1) can answer surveys
(1) Proper Punctuation
(1) Remembering powers of 2.
(1) Reminds you on a regular basis that you are a complete moron
(1) strategic thinking
(1) The ability to confuse those who can't think deeply
(1) There's always a way. If you can't find it, then create it.
(1) Thoughts of suicide
(1) To Learn more skills
(1) typing
(1) using the phrase "well actually"
(1) What rotten sons-a-bitches people usually are.
(1) CListCtrl.NET 2.0
(1) Concentration
(1) Cure for Dyssomnia
(1) Cut, Copy and Paste
(1) eliminating distractions (by listening to too-loud classic rock)
(1) Eschew Assumptions
(1) Happiness
(1) High boredom threshold
(1) How to go broke getting a job in programming.
(1) How to make a Bacon Buttie with CLstCtrl
(1) How to survive from Back Pain & Wrist Pain
(1) how to think like a keyboard and mouse
(1) Hubris, Laziness and Impatience
(1) Humility and risk-evaluation
(1) I applied my skills to programming. Programming provided me very little.
(1) I should have become a dunny diver or sparky to get rich
(1) I should have grown up to be a Gigilo
(1) ignoring the voices
(1) Increased tolerance against sleep.
(1) Information search
(1) insistence
(1) It increased my tolerance for pain.
(1) just how crazy and twisted that i am...
(1) Lack of intellect on the part of some users.
(1) Listening
(1) memorizing things by heart
(1) mindreading, seeing into the future
(1) More Programming
(1) None of the above
(1) Nothing. Programming teaches you fucakall apart from how to program. Don't delude yourself
(1) Patience :)
(1) Patience for one's own stupidity
(1) Patience!
(1) Patience, Oh so MUCH patience
(1) Patience, when the server or updates crash your app at no fault of your own
(1) People skillzor !!
(1) Persistence
(1) Politics
(1) "If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your B.S."
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(1) A brain that can hardly work late in the evening
(1) A heightened awareness of one's own stupidity as well!
(1) A second check for the 'godlike abilities' one
(1) A sense of wonder at how such a small change can wreak such havoc
(1) A thirst for knowledge
(1) Ability to think in abstract terms and see common patterns in life and nature in general
(1) Absolutely NOTHING
(1) Abstarction
(1) ADHD
(1) Attention to detail