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Content Pinboard Pinboard The Programmers' Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy 1:15 PM - Aug 5, 2016

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The fragile ego of developers is on full display here. We all pretend we want "constructive feedback" on our code, but the second someone suggests our beautifully crafted 300-line function might work better as five smaller ones, we're secretly dying inside. Nothing quite like spending three days on a feature only to have some senior dev casually mention "this could be a one-liner" in the PR comments. I've been on both sides of this equation for 15 years and still haven't figured out how to take criticism without mentally drafting my resignation letter.

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