The phrase "A comma, not a period" comes from Evangelical Christian circles, where the notion of "being finished" is a period and being in progress for the transformation of righteousness is a comma.
Done and Gets Things Smart is an ideal I aspire to. I don't know if I'll ever get to "god-like" seed engineer status (according to Steve Yegge), but I do see a pathway to emulating particles of that superhero engineer (If you want a sample of who I'm talking about, read this book).
A screening interview at Black Pixel I think would look something like Rob Napier's interview.
A serious candidate interview looks exactly like this.
Here's the direction I'm going in for this career aspiration:
- Automated testing
- Fast atomic software task completion
- Starting early / Finishing early
- Security
- Optimization
- Refactoring
- CC2E practices
- [Pragmatic Programmer](http://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Construction/dp/0735619670/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365847295&sr=8-1&keywords=code+complete practices)
- Spending time with other bad ass developers (either in person or in podcasts)
Interestingly, there's an Open Source framework I can think of that I can cut my teeth on. The only question is:
Will I push my edge in every moment?
Like ELEW?
Like JWZ?