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Know when to stop

Don’t spoil a perfectly good program by overembellishment and overrefinement. 

Move on, and let your code stand in its own right for a while. It may not be perfect.

Don’t worry: it could never be perfect.

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As an engineer with an official degree in software engineering, I am primarily interested in science and technology. I enjoy reading literature of many genres, and I especially like those from human behavior, sociology, history, and, should I say, science

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