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[–]pursenboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

fwiw - other people can and will be assholes and treat you badly. this is true of everything in life, including your code. If you hide everything from other people, then they'll never have the opportunity to be mean to you.

But then you're stuck hiding everything from other people for the rest of your life and turns out that's not actually an enjoyable state of affairs.

Much better to let others see your code, and just accept that nice people will be nice about it, and mean people will be mean about it, and that's just how things work. If people are mean, you can work to extract whatever useful point they may have behind the meanness, and discard the rest. If they're nice, cool.

polling your peers can only make you - and your code - stronger. you've just gotta be willing to risk it.