Throught the years, I have often laughed or expressed disproof looking at mistakes others would make in their code. Working at Xceed, I often had to debug and test customers' applications, and it wasn't rare I felt shocked to see the mistakes other developers were making.
Other times, there were bugs in my code, some of them really stupid ones. It was only during those times I could realize I was a jerk laughing at others' code. With time, I started respecting their work more and more, pratice my humility, and accept I wasn't perfect, far from it, and I couldn't ask others to be.
For some people, the older they get, the more presumptuous they are, as if their accomplishments were more important than their knowledge. I'm totally the opposite, and this piece of code I wrote a few weeks ago, and found out today should be my contribution to humility:
ProvidersListView.Items.Add( item );
if( ProvidersListView.SelectedItems.Count == 0 )
{
item.Selected = true;
}
(cough)
Do you want to practice your humility? Go ahead, you'll feel better.
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