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In your opinion are there any common signs you see that indicate someone is good at dynamically applying new skills? or even better is there any signs that clearly idcated they aren;t good?

you talked about paying attention to their attitude but I mean more specific things like, if they said they use Emacs and write bash scripts would you take that as arrogance or that they are competent?



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