Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?

Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by rand_r on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:30AM (#18131181)

I think a lot of the time people are perfectly capable of figuring out the issue on their own, however they ask for help for social reasons. Getting another person involved in the problem is way more fun, and creates a bond between both people.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by klohto on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:48AM (#18131403)

When you’re messaging me 20 times a day about simple exceptions like “X gem is not installed” (Ruby) and asking me what to do, then it has an opposite offect of creating a bond

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by petepete on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:44PM (#18132696)

For non black and white problems it makes more sense though. Discussing the best approach for something complex, for example.

Timing is important though, you don't want to intrude, interrupt or distract.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by dlivingston on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:34AM (#18131231)

I've observed this a few times, too.

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