Humility is often quite difficult to maintain when you're working with something as esoteric as code. It just feels good to know that you understand something c

Humility is often quite difficult to maintain when you're working with something as esoteric as code. It just feels good to know that you understand something complex. And, often with negative results, it's easy to get a rich warm feeling of pride when you see someone else make a mistake that you'd have avoided because of your deeper understanding of a system or language. And let's face it, we all like to get together and laugh heartily at bad code. It can be pretty fun. That's why I'm consistently impressed by engineers who provide feedback free of pride. I've been lucky enough to learn from people like this and even luckier to work for them.