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My first job on a project that was already up and humming. Before that, everything I had done was in isolation, and typically started from scratch with very little guidance. Sitting down and actually getting to touch code written by skilled developers gave me the chance to see good code, bad code, and design patterns working together in an extremely tangible context. Also, huge confidence boost the first time you ship production code.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @04:05PM (#12638947)
I always enjoyed Ryan Dahl's casual at-home talk on the history of Node.JS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0vQCC6UQ
This is great! All I could think about was this clip from Parks and Recreation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVq10zG0UdY

Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples on Thursday August 28, 2014 @05:38AM (#8236535)
The fact that this is broken really says it all