#494 Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers
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Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers
Although his sense of humour isn’t for everyone, the suggestions are valuable. The list forms a baseline for software engineers to compare themselves against, and it’s not very specific to the games industry.
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