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		Gibbon1 on June 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer > Understood as senior: If a junior programmer tells me they found a system-level bug, I won't believe them and will tell them to go figure out what's wrong with their code. Me: 'Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while'

cja23 on June 7, 2019 [–]

Horses, not zebras. But yes, there are a few zebras in the world also.

Gibbon1 on June 8, 2019 | [–]

Depends on what they are doing.

Oh you found a 'bug' in Mac OS, Windows, or Linux? Probably not.

Oh you found a 'bug' some open source library? Maybe.

Or in our in house developed framework? Probably.

In house framework I wrote? Certain of that.

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