本文来自nio's blog（nio?尼奥？黑客帝国？），原文如下：
Some casual surfing led me to this article from a couple of years ago, titled "How to recognize a good programmer". It was a nice read, but as many in the comments pointed out, the criteria the author set forth most likely describe himself and are not really useful as rules-of-thumb on how to recognize a good programmer.
It got me thinking though, on what are the attributes I consider useful in fellow programmers. So what makes a good programmer?
以下五项，按照优先级，你会怎样排序呢？
- Security（安全性）
- Maintainability（可维护性）
- Usability（可用性）
- Performance（性能）
- LOC (lines-of-code) count（代码量）
作者认为最重要的是 usability，因为你开发的东西最终价值取决于最终用户。我们开发的目的是为了解决问题，如果解决不了问题，则说明项目是失败的。