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Devs Should Smile

by synchton on 1/10/22, 9:07 AM with 3 comments

• by bcrl on 1/11/22, 1:58 AM

  When I'm in the zone for building, debugging and testing a new system, it's pretty unlikely that I'll be smiling. Most of the time my thoughts are filled all the mistakes I have already made or are attempting to avoid making in new code. At the end of the process there's a pretty decent rush of accomplishment, but that's usually replaced by worrying about the next problem on the giant list of todos.

  That said, one of last few places I worked at had a social hour every Friday at 4pm. I think that was a very good addition to the workplace that is well worth having to enable more casual team bonding on a regular basis. It serves a similar purpose as smiling at your co-workers, but is perhaps a bit less forced for those of us who have the pessimist / realist lookout on software development.

• by suntowel on 1/10/22, 11:29 AM

  :smile

• by coder28 on 1/10/22, 11:28 AM

  Nice