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Re:Ask HN: What are some productivity hacks which junior dev... by AnimalMuppet on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:51PM (#29280806)
Don't be a jerk. How you treat people matters.

Why is that a productivity hack? Because medium-to-large-scale software development is all about communication. You don't initially know what your code is supposed to do. It isn't obvious; someone has to communicate that to you. You don't know how it's supposed to work with other code; someone has to communicate that to you. Being a jerk makes other people less willing to talk to you.

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