[joesb]

While I agree with not "blaming" people for the mistake as if it's their fault as a person. I disagree with all of his reasoning and the action he choose not to do in this case.

I also take the position of "criticizing the idea/code, not the people" when it comes to other people's work. I rarely have a problem with criticizing myself.

Especially when it comes to "your" own code. You should be able to apologize for your mistake.

> It reinforces the idea that any one person or piece of code can be blamed for a given failure. Short of malice, this is never the case.

You can be attributed to your action. If you can be attributed to the good things in your work, then you can be attributed to bugs. Unless you are claiming that you have no control what so ever about how your code turns out, at which point, what are the different from you and a typewriter?

The thing is, you can be attributed for an instance of error. You can be blamed for the error you did. But you should never be categories as "the error".

> It gives the impression that, when you wrote the code, you should have written it better. This is a counterfactual that rarely holds up to examination.

Yes. There are instances that I could have written it better.

> It positions shame as the correct emotion to feel about bugs in your code: if you were a better engineer – a better teammate – the bug wouldn’t exist.

> If you’re a more senior engineer on your team, the effects of these anti-patterns are magnified: people see you apologizing for bugs, so they think that they should be striving to write bug-free code. They may feel ashamed if their code has bugs.

I take the approach and culture of "be strict with yourself but be kind to others". When I talks about other people's bug I always criticize the bugs itself and talks about problem and process in general without tying it to them. But when I talked about my code, I will also express what I could have done better or what is the pros and cons of my coding decision.

The thing is there's different between people striving to better themselves, and people blaming others for not being better.

You should strive to be better, while at the same times not being a snob or looking down on other for not being perfect.

In every day's life there's no permanently good people or bad people. There's bad action that people do. You should still be able to attribute a certain instance of event to a person. You just don't have to hold grudge and judge them forever based on it.

I am probably reaching it here, but I feel that the author is the kind of person that can't take criticism of his idea well because he feel that his idea is himself.

Your idea and action is yours. But your idea and action is not who you are. If you think it is yourself, then you become blindly defensive and either never acknowledge that you did it, like the author did, or never change.