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Re:Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2012) by skybrian on Saturday March 14, 2015 @05:45PM (#9204298)
I think the key is that if you ask a question, you should be willing to accept "no" as the answer. Sometimes the answer is "not now" or "no", and perhaps adding a TODO or a comment explaining why not.

Particularly well-explained code shouldn't raise any questions.

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Re:Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2012) by AnkhMorporkian on Saturday March 14, 2015 @06:54PM (#9204533)
I suppose so. Most often I don't harp on stylistic choices that don't affect the integrity of programs. I might encourage another coder to lint their code, for example, but I won't specifically single any of those out. I just won't waste time asking questions if I find ten places the program could error out on.
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