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Comment on Ask HN: What specific techniques do you use to improve as a programmer?

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1. Sharpen your saw. Keep learning new technologies and programming methodologies.

2. Make an effort to use what you have learned from past experiences to write better code in terms of usability, efficiency, readability, maintainability, etc.

3. Read Code(good ones). Sometimes, looking at other people's code allows you to have a fresh perspective about coding style.

4. Contribute to open source. It will help you immensely in understanding what it takes to write code that others can read and maintain.

5. Help others on sites like stackexchange.

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