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by btgeekboy 4705 days ago
Praise your employees in public. Correct them in private.

People like to be lauded for their accomplishments, but nobody wants to be known as "that guy who wrote a severe XSS bug."

Build babysitters are a bit of an exception, since it's not the end of the world if the current build is broken - another commit, and the problem's resolved. Public XSS though... that's more severe.