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Discussion on: 6 Things I've learned teaching myself to code.

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Alain Van Hout

A nice list :-).

With the first one "Be willing to throw away everything, the best, right solution is all that matters", it's however important to temper that when working in a business context: sometimes 'good enough' is indeed good enough. Balance is everything :).

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Michael Minshew

Absolutely, balance is everything. Personally, I find myself sticking to something far longer than I should just because the puzzle fixer in me can't let go. Or I get sentimental about something I wrote and annoyed when someone just wants to throw it away for whatever reason. I hope some of that goes away when I've been coding long enough to have tons of code and not care as much.