This is a guest post from Cara Borenstein. Enjoy. Dear new developer, A couple of years ago, I started my first job in Silicon Valley. I was a junior software engineer at a fast-moving company and I was so excited to have the opportunity to learn. I worked hard. I looked up terms I wasn’t … Continue reading You know more than you think
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Don’t Shit on Someone Else’s Work
Dear new developer, There will come a time when you are looking at a system and trying to understand the choices behind it. You may be looking at a particular class, a subsystem, or a more fundamental choice, like the language or the system architecture. And you'll wonder what the hell the initial implementer was … Continue reading Don’t Shit on Someone Else’s Work
Beware Of Your Arrogance
Dear new developer, I wrote this post years ago, but it still applies today. Ah, the arrogance of software developers. (I’m a software developer myself, so I figure I have carte blanche to take aim at the foibles of my profession.) Why, just the other day, I reviewed a legal document, and pointed out several … Continue reading Beware Of Your Arrogance