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Re:Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2012) by falsedan on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:59PM (#9205307)
Pointing out a bug in the code is not a comment on the programmer. Programs have bugs! Humans make mistakes. Commenting on a review with 'you made a mistake' is needlessly confrontational. but the alternative is wasteful: bending over backward to avoid even suggesting that the code might have a bug. If the reviewee's ego is based on never making mistakes, then the review will hurt their feelings regardless of how the comments are phrased.

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