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Discussion on: What skills do career indie developers not learn (vs those employed mostly on teams)

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Javier Guerra

I've been in both sides, and as an independent or more factual, as a solo developer in a advertisement team I was very happy ignoring a lot of code quality strategies, I don't know how much is this due the lack of the current online communities, and how much was just me being absorb in the glamour of ad agencies and focusing on bells and whistles. But I kind of remember the feeling of no one understanding why the things couldn't be done as the client "demanded", and me faling to come up with the technical argument.

The first thing I learned when working in a more Tech oriented team, in the mid 2000's was to look up for the community to backup my decisions. The moment I start going to tech conventions and reading in forums more about empathy with fellow devs, helped, but the big difference was to have a person in front of me asking: Why did you did this?