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Showing Kindness while Programming

Andrew Davis on November 20, 2018

Software development and programming is a difficult profession. It is very new and requires a lot of practice, learning and mental focus. It can ge...
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Basti Ortiz

PREACH, brother! 🙌 Never have I agreed on an article this much.

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Daniel

Beautiful article.

I would add:

Be considerate with the developer that will maintain your code. Always try to write the simplest code you can to solve the particular problem you are working on. Follow conventions, write idiomatic code.

Will your code be difficult to understand for a junior who still does not know all the context of your app? Refactor and try again. Is is still a bit too dense and you don't know how to write it better? Add a comment explaining the decisions you took and why did you take them.

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John Bull

Great post, as someone going into their first full-time position next week, after years of part-time work and freelancing on my own I am hoping I see some openness and patience from my peers. I hope my I can keep these things in perspective, I'm sure its a two-way street as well, where I a JR have a part to play in keeping the good vibes and learning flowing.

Cheers!

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Rapulu • Edited

This is a great article, very inspiring. Thank you Andrew.

P.S, I am looking for remote opportunity on PHP, Laravel or Vuejs. The pay shouldn't be a problem is the experience i'm more interested on. Please help.

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tdquang.138k

What a great article, way to go!!!
I hope more and more people can understand this. :). In my company, my bosses are trying so hard to make the same thing, and It's not easy but it's worth it.

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GChester

Hello,

We are currently in Thailand and I am looking at flying into Vietnam and hire some Developers in PHP/MySQL Python, Ruby, and other languages.

I would love to chat with you.

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tdquang.138k • Edited

Hi. I'm sorry. My email is tdquang138k@gmail.com (not tdquang.138k@gmail.com)

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tdquang.138k

Hello,

Thanks and appreciation for the opportunity.
You can reach me at tdquang.138k@gmail.com.

Thank you and sorry for late reply. :)

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David J Eddy

AMEN, brother! So true. Excellent article Andrew.

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Jariullah Safi

This. I want to see more this in our community. The recent transformation of Linus Torvalds was met with absolute glee by me. Here's hoping we can detoxify the tech industry for the better!

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Gregory

Great article, great job!

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Vinicius Kiatkoski Neves

So many truths in one post hahaha

Congrats! It is always good to remember that people move you forward and help you grow not just the code itself!

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Salli Figler

Great advice and relevant to many work situations. Thanks for the reminder.

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David Joseph Kamer

Treat everyone with respect no matter what.

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Galina Erostenko

Agree on every point! These are the things to follow to improve working environment for devs.

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Akira

Yaaaas! I love this. (faith in humanity restores)

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John K. Speck

Now that sounds like a team I want to work with! Great post.