Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?

Re:Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable? by ratherlongname on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:45AM (#21025190)

Sign your code.

Doing this attaches your reputation to your code. Anybody reading it knows to expect a certain level of quality given it is written by you, and you get the much needed motivation to write good code.

Amazing piece of advice I picked from the Pragmatic Programmer.

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Re:Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable? by giancarlostoro on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:15AM (#21025329)

Well that's what version control does, so if you remind yourself that when someone does a git blame later, and they see who wrote the awful code and dread your existence, you might want to fix it up.

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Re:Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable? by amenod on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:08AM (#21025290)

This is an incredible advice - from my experience I know it works, though I never formulated it this way (or even thought about this). Thank you for spelling it out!

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