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Not being a dick


Flip side, being able to take constructive, even if harsh, criticism.

Not suggesting to be mean or cruel intentionally, but a comment about code or implementation is not a personal attack and shouldn't be taken as such.


I remember proposing to a very green team that using pull requests, code reviews and some semblance of staging before committing to production was a good idea and the answer was, literally: "But I write perfect code". I was shocked into silence and had to walk away on that one.




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