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Today at work we had a big discussion about annotations in some Java code. These wonderful little inventions save a time and make life much easier for programmers, but they are also the source of terrible nightmares. To get into the subject, I’ll need to explain a few things for the audience.
This is mostly a repeat of what I wrote on gamedev. Someone was asking a question about job hunting and changing jobs, about losing interest in what he said was his favorite things to do, and losing confidence in what he used to enjoy. The first part of his discussion was about loss of confidence. …
A recent forum post over on gamedev.net just inspired me to write a bit. The question is about owning features, and personal growth on larger teams. I’ve worked at several businesses, but most have started out small. Some of them have grown quite a lot while I was there. I have been partially pigeonholed by …