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Ask HN: Best practices for software development?

I've been writing software professionally now for about a decade, but I feel like I've never learned how to do it 'properly'. For example, I've never experienced agile methodology, never used unit testing on my code, and only just recently started using source control tools.What are the current best practices I should consider following? And conversely, what worst practices and non-best...

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