The Ten Commandments of Coding
The Ten Commandments of Coding
- Understand and accept that you will make mistakes.
- You are not your code.
- No matter how much karate you know, someone else will always know more.
- Don't rewrite other programmers' code without consultation.
- Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience.
- The only constant in the world is change.
- The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position.
- Fight for what you believe but gracefully accept defeat.
- Don't be "the guy in the room."
- Critique code instead of people—be kind to the coder, not to the code.
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