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Discussion on: What's One Thing You'd Tell Your Younger (Dev) Self?

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If I could go back to the days when I was just starting to study programming, I would tell myself the most important thing:

« Spend more time with your family and friends, and do not go headlong into learning programming languages, technologies, design and other things. One day there will still come a time when, without fear of the new and unknown, you can just take and do your job, which you will like madly, but the time when native people will be around, will run away and you will never bring it back.

You will regret spending almost all of your free time at work. These thoughts will be waiting for you sleepless nights, when your code editor will be open for long hours, and you simply will not have the desire to continue creating something new, because you will try to stop time - which is merciless and incorruptible. And no matter how good a developer you are, you can't write that script, application, or just a function that can turn back time or at least slow it down. »