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Discussion on: Importance of Editing and Proofreading

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Michiel Hendriks

Somebody else has to do that for me. I can read something I wrote 20 times and not see an obvious error. My brain (thinks it) knows what's there and will ignore a lot what my eyes are telling.
This is why you do (code) reviews of other people's work.

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Justin Lam

I understand. It's not able being completely perfect, but one should take time to at least do 1 or 2 passes before submission.

I know for book writing, they are dedicated editors because the author is guaranteed to make mistakes. Perhaps this might be something we may need in teams, a dedicated "editor" for our source code.