What separates the top 1% of programmers from the rest? Is pic

Where they poo

knee socks

>>61972598
>What separates the top 1% of programmers from the rest?

The fact that they're not posting stupid questions in a cingalese-tea-basket weaving forum when they could be programming instead.

>>61972598
foot pedals

>top 1% of programmers
creating the tools and platforms other programmers successfully use with thorough documentation
>99% of programmers
hastily reading documentation and blindly using the tools and platforms the top 1% have created

>>61972623
Ok, what about TAOCP though?
I find it odd that /g/ recommends SICP and K&R but never talks about Knuth's books. Same for the Dragon Book and CLRS.

>>61972642
>top 0.001% of programmers
Are fluent in Holy C and make their own OS.

>>61972598
They work at IBM and take orders directly from the Illuminati. Start by selling your soul to the gangster computer god.