I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:

  1. never lie.
  2. never tell the whole truth.
  3. never pass up a chance to use a real bathroom.
  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Funny enough, these have analogs in programming!

    Leave it better than you found it.

    The Boyscouts rule! Clean up bad code if you can!

    Second rule, give people the benefit of the doubt and don’t attribute an action as the person.

    Sometimes you gotta write janky code to meet a deadline. That is not a personal failure. And give folks a break who do it too.