This strikes me as just a weird question; one of those, "What kind of person asks that question?" type of questions (and I mean no offense by that lol).
It's like asking, "Am I pretty/handsome?" Well, do people tell you that you are? Do you notice people that you think are pretty/handsome staring at you? If so, there's a chance you are.
Measuring how much better you're becoming is easier in some practices than in others. Assuming everybody wants to become great hackers, how can you practice deliberately such that you reach this "greatness?" Without some way of measuring how good you're becoming this is pretty difficult to do.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 24.3 ms ] threadMaybe this article (Great Hackers: Recognition) might help ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
"Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy."
It's such a nice formulation ;-)
It's like asking, "Am I pretty/handsome?" Well, do people tell you that you are? Do you notice people that you think are pretty/handsome staring at you? If so, there's a chance you are.
Measuring how much better you're becoming is easier in some practices than in others. Assuming everybody wants to become great hackers, how can you practice deliberately such that you reach this "greatness?" Without some way of measuring how good you're becoming this is pretty difficult to do.