During our professional career, we learn many things. We forget a lot of them. But there are few techniques which we use every day, they help us excel our job.
Ask HN: What are the 5 most important techniques you use at job?
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#2How about you?
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#3Debugging and being able to communicate clearly with others.
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#4recognizing and testing assumptions
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#5Keep track of people you've enjoyed working with. They are hard to find.
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#61. Keyboard shortcuts. From Win-plus-number-keys to Autohotkey-defined macros. Makes the time between "think of task" and "accomplish task" instantaneous.
2. Notes. From "what was the answer to this bug last time" to "how do you toString an Enumeration?" Increases your memory far beyond human proportions.
3. Abstractifying problems. Don't just google error message, google "Tomcat having trouble compiling JSPs." Don't just be annoyed by scrolling, google "DBVisualizer select database shortcut".
4. Documentation. When you write down "[This class] provides X" and "[This function] accomplishes X" you start to make classes that actually make sense and have a single purpose. When you understand something once and write that down, you don't have to reconstruct your understanding again.
5. Probably taking some time to make your coworkers feel validated and help them out with their own goals.
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#71. Underpromise and overdeliver.
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#8Listening to other points of view and figuring out how to fit them into what you want to do.
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#9Don’t be a dick. When you are tempted to lash out, pause and do something else, even walk away if need be.
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#10Being able to draw flowcharts to explain complex things to non-tech people.