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Lots of mistakes, and working with smart people who were kind enough to point out the deficiencies in my early and crude approaches, reading many articles and b
by wavefunction 9y ago
Lots of mistakes, and working with smart people who were kind enough to point out the deficiencies in my early and crude approaches, reading many articles and blog posts on every sort of programming topic, and finally and most directly important was reading through codebases at places I worked or open-source projects in my early years and learning from what other people were doing more correctly.
- kafkaesq 9y agoWorking with smart people who were kind enough to point out the deficiencies in my early and crude approaches This point cannot be underemphasized. There's no end of stuff you can read online about better practices, these days. But those experience I had working with people who, without so much taking "pity" on me, took me seriously, despite my obvious naivete in certain areas - I'm not sure whether I would have gotten anywhere at all without them.