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edmundsauto on Feb 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You

My advice: see if you can rewire your internal rewards. That feeling is the acknowledgement that you learned something.

The fact our ancient rewards system considers it embarrassing is of little importance.

widforss on Feb 22, 2019 [–]

Thank you, I'll keep this in mind for the next time it happens.

It's just that the code is still there, and will need to be replaced in due time. Over and over again.

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