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"A lot of people in this business develop huge egos. Why? None of us is curing cancer. None of us is saving babies from burning buildings. We’re just a bunch of overpaid knuckleheads who think up nutty stuff for some other knuckleheads’ products." - Paul Howalt

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    Yeah. Sometimes you're writing flight software or fighting cancer. Most of the time though it's about changing a border color on a button in a fart generator app. This should serve as a reminder to all those doing code reviews to not be so anal unless appropriate for the final product
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    @monkeyboy "Yeah. Sometimes you're writing flight software"

    Boeing 737 Max. Even writing flight software is no excuse for an oversized ego. Quite the contrary, imho, the more critical your software is the more humble and careful you should be.
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