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For longevity, I will provide one advice to younger people.. get away from the mouse as much as you can and use the keyboard. My working style is editing code in vim, dark screen, 2 buffers when necessary, go to the colon prompt to run the unit test or the script/driver and do this all day. No mouse needed until I need to check email or browse the web. There were times in my career when I was overusing the mouse and my wrist hurt. I have no issues now, 30+ years into programming.

No matter what your editor/language/framework choices, try to minimize using the mouse



Another advice is to have a thick skin and ignore the jerks, like for instance someone downvoting your note that was written with a good intention, sharing something learnt the hard way.




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