> She's behind the scenes managing resources. Some power is explicitly granted to her, but a lot of her ability to get things done comes from the respect & cooperation of her subordinates.
What a wonderful paragraph. Playful, yet with a deep meaning. It makes the article a joy to read.
Obviously I didn't mean to imply that your merits as a programmer should be judged by your ability to recall specific syntax, like the equality operator in some language.
I'm wondering about the long term effects of not paying attention to such details. Do you miss out on picking up patterns used by a certain library, framework, language or whatever, that you could have used to write your own code better?