Programming: Attitude Trumps Intelligence
I'm not sure what his definition of intelligence is.  Obviously not the same as mine.  He states that the reason "triumphalists" annoy him so much is that he used to be one- and then goes on to explain himself programming something very unintelligent in form and function that took him 20 years to fix.  I would paraphrase the post as "I used to be dumb and arrogant, but after 20 years I realize how dumb I was and why don't we all stop being arrogant?"<p>I would pass on someone with an attitude of hard-work and responsibility for someone with real programming intelligence (the whole package- product to interface to maintenance) in a heartbeat.  The last thing I need is someone diligently corroding a code-base.