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What Twenty Years of Code Taught Me About Patience

I wrote my first program in 2004. It was a calculator in Visual Basic and it did not work. I spent four hours on it. When I finally got it to add two numbers correctly I felt something I have felt only a few times since. It was not pride. It was recognition.

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Quiet Ember

Excellent piece.

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Omar F.

This is the essay I needed at 25. I did not have it. My whole team will read it now.

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Nate Cross

The code will still be there tomorrow. Framing this.

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HS

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