Kudos if that's the case. An essay on soft skills is probably the most difficult genre to master for a non-native speaker, more so for a programmer. I'm ok with the piece, as long as there was effort involved and it's better than Google Translate.

I've been reading antirez's writing for a long time and he's been consistently getting stronger as a writer of English. I think this is some of his best writing yet in terms of grammar and use of the language.

Excuse me if I'll print your comment and pin it in front of my desk. It means I'm not hopeless :-)

You're far from hopeless.