Good list, and the litmus test is I would have disagreed with a lot of it when I started, or at least I'd have wondered why it mattered.
My summary, and it won't be useful at all, is that a lot of programming decisions come down to judgement. Comment or not? Config file or DSL? Is it ugly? Is is a rare feature of the language? All of these things are the kind of thing that you could argue if you wanted, but an experienced programmer will likely have better arguments.
One thing I still don't agree with is the first one. There's a lot of things, mostly trivial, that are easier to find on SO than in the source code. In fact something like "what's the idiomatic way to concat a string in $lang?" is best found on SO rather than the source code, because the source code will allow more than one way to do it.
For number 2 problems ("In many cases, what you're working on doesn't have an answer on the internet."), the answer is again judgement. For this you want to have a network of programmers you've built up over the years that you can ask. I have a couple of good friends on chat that I can just pop a question to, and it saves a heck of a lot of time. Hard to find though, they have to be someone who is basically gonna work for free for you, and you have to provide a similar level of service when they have a question for you.
My summary, and it won't be useful at all, is that a lot of programming decisions come down to judgement. Comment or not? Config file or DSL? Is it ugly? Is is a rare feature of the language? All of these things are the kind of thing that you could argue if you wanted, but an experienced programmer will likely have better arguments.
One thing I still don't agree with is the first one. There's a lot of things, mostly trivial, that are easier to find on SO than in the source code. In fact something like "what's the idiomatic way to concat a string in $lang?" is best found on SO rather than the source code, because the source code will allow more than one way to do it.
For number 2 problems ("In many cases, what you're working on doesn't have an answer on the internet."), the answer is again judgement. For this you want to have a network of programmers you've built up over the years that you can ask. I have a couple of good friends on chat that I can just pop a question to, and it saves a heck of a lot of time. Hard to find though, they have to be someone who is basically gonna work for free for you, and you have to provide a similar level of service when they have a question for you.