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A comment on Ask HN: How worried do you get over bugs in your code? Is this a mental health issue?.

Re:Ask HN: How worried do you get over bugs in your code? I... by jmtame on Monday April 06, 2009 @08:52PM (#550018)
Might want to stick "Ask HN: " in front of the title. I thought this was an article at first, hesitated to click.

http://paulgraham.com/start.html

What it means specifically depends on the job: a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it; a PR person who will cold-call New York Times reporters on their cell phones; a graphic designer who feels physical pain when something is two millimeters out of place.

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Re:Ask HN: How worried do you get over bugs in your code? I... by ryanmnly on Monday April 06, 2009 @09:10PM (#550044)
So you are asking if there is a correlation between mental health and worries about bugs in your code? Given the fact that coding leads to watching the sun rise from your desk chair, the hope that this particular algorithm saves the world, and a disturbing reliance on Totino's pizza rolls as sustenance, I would say yes, the connection between mental health and code is not a coincidence.
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