I think you missed something. Postscript for the naive: This post is a mild satire on programming in teams. These three rules, while undoubtedly effective, are

I think you missed something. Postscript for the naive: This post is a mild satire on programming in teams. These three rules, while undoubtedly effective, are evil. They harm overall project progress for your own benefit. They don’t make you a better programmer intrinsically, only compared to the rest of your team. You may, like I and countless others, have done something like this completely innocently in the past, when you didn’t know better. Now you know better.