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Discussion on: What Not to Do as a Programmer - My List After 2 Years of Working In Teams

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Ross Henderson

Making yourself replaceable makes you irreplaceable because no one else will be that type of developer.

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Dennis Ploeger

Hm? What do you mean?

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Ross Henderson

By being the member that is fully communicative, documents impeccably write code for everyone else, you are much harder to replace. :)

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Dennis Ploeger

Ha! That's why it's working so good. 😂

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Luke Inglis

The team I'm on is about to lose someone who manages to be both. He's an amazing developer who can do stuff twice as fast as the rest of us but also documents and shares everything and doesn't hesitate to help anyone.

We hate to lose him but the plus is that he's the kind of guy who is leaving everything we need to get up to speed.

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Haseeb

I think he's probably doing the best both for you and himself, you'll be able to function effectively even without him and he'll always be remembered as a good guy in the company who laid foundations for everyone.

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Brano

Mr Haseeb... Please, can you help make a list of this ?

"What one need to do to become a good programmer. What concepts you need to understand, what technologies you need to learn, what tools you have to know..."

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Haseeb

These are all very open-ended questions which a lot of people have tried to answer over the years. I'll surely share my opinions when I think I have something solid and productive to add.