The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got

In later years, as I found myself building and managing software teams, I’ve realized that there were probably a dozen programmers on that ancient project who knew why the system was so slow and how to fix it. They knew, but they kept it to themselves because in that organization, there were some things that were more important than making the system better. In the future, stay the Hell out of other people’s code. assumes there will be a future. But the best way to have a future is to be part of a team that values progress over politics, ideas over territory and initiative over decorum.

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