Signs that you're a bad programmer (2012)
If anyone hasn't read it I highly recommend the book "Antipatterns" (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Architectures-Projects/dp/0471197130=" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arch...</a><p>... or just google antipatterns.<p>My personal pet peeve is that many programmers don't refactor nearly often nor thorougly enough. It should be natural part of the developing process. Especially with large programs you reach certain points where all encompassing refactoring is needed to simplify the code, yet many power through leading to a bloated mess.<p>I've found its not uncommon that even decent complex code can be shrunk 70%-80% using refactoring, code generation and config files.