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by mkorfmann 3897 days ago
Do you check the stove 3,4 times when leaving the house? Are you sometimes anxious, that you didn't properly shut the door after haveng left the house?

I have this theory where people who do these things are good programmers, since they will check their commit a lot of times until it is perfect to push. But maybe this is more about mastery than having an aptitude for it. :)

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> Do you check the stove 3,4 times when leaving the house? Are you sometimes anxious, that you didn't properly shut the door after haveng left the house?

You might have OCD.

On the other hand, if you're too much of a perfectionist, you might never get larger tasks done because of obsession to detail.

Neurosis don't have much to do with mastery of programming IMO.

I don't care much about things in the house, but I do check my commit a couple of times before pushing it in.