For example, on attitude: Learning to be patient. Patient with planning the right solution, selecting the right libraries, fixing bugs, dealing with other developers who may not be as experienced as you, etc. I think patience is an overlooked "programmer's virtue."
Eh, I guess. I've experienced a lot of career fields at their mid-levels, swap "solution", "right libraries", "bugs" and "developers" with your nouns of choice and that's a pretty universal thing.
Maybe what you mean is that impatience is more of an accepted thing among programmers? I can get behind that.
Ugh. A pox on people who write programs that "anticipate your needs". They get it wrong more often than right, slowing you down, blocking you, or interrupting you and breaking the flow.
And to make matters worse, those features tend to be baked into the system such that you can't disable them.
> Those are part of the "existing-in-modern-society-as-a-human-being competency matrix", along with bathing and wearing pants as often as possible.
Excuse me but did you just present attitude, communication and other soft-skills as an absolute bare minimum and a total given that pretty much anyone "existing-in-modern-society-as-a-human-being" would live up to anyway? Where is this dream world and how do I get there?
Need I remind you of examples like geeks practically sexually harassing girls at conferences in this day and age? Or the insane amount of social-anxiety / communications / soft-skills related cries for self-help all over the net? We are FAR from any of this being a standard.
Attitude section?