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Re:Qualities that I believe make the most difference in prog... by LordKano on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:04AM (#13753797)
The best programmer I have ever worked with used to be my boss. When I learned Perl, he had me write a very simple program to monitor some network printers. When I was finished, I showed him what I came up with and it worked pretty well.

I guess it was to show me that I was thinking too much like a C programmer, he rewrote my program in about 10 lines of Perl.

He was always willing to listen when I had design ideas that differed from his own. When my ideas were better, he'd incorporate them into our plans.

We had a four man team that was probably the most productive one of which I have ever been a member.

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Re:Qualities that I believe make the most difference in prog... by rak00n on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:49AM (#13772381)
> He was always willing to listen when I had design ideas that differed from his own. When my ideas were better, he'd incorporate them into our plans.

This is what makes someone a good Tech Lead and/or manager.

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