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Re:Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer by michaelwww on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:06PM (#32668353)
Other programmers can be harsh critics and it's important not to internalize these critics. This isn't a knock on other programmers, but the criticism is often based on their own perfectionism!
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Re:Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer by slindsey on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:16PM (#32668460)
Those "other programmers" that are "harsh critics" are often ourselves. How many times have you (any programmer) looked at your own old code and thought, "what they hell was I thinking?"

I can't count the times I've looked at ugly code, fired off `git blame`, and found out it was me.

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