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		gress on Feb 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Never judge a programmer by their commit history How can you judge coders by their code when you don't understand the context?

ritchiea on Feb 22, 2014 [–]

I would make it part of the interview. Look at the code, think about it & ask the programmer about it. Reserve judgements until you have made an attempt to learn something about the context.

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