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Camaraderie

Faciliate teamwork through collaboration, humility, respect, and empathy.

Craft

Passionately produce and encourage high quality work, with a willingness to improve ourselves.

Creation

Create software that positively impacts our end-users and team alike.

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Homebase engineers are mobile developers, web developers, data scientists, quality assurance engineers, managers, and supporting professionals. Our mission is to enhance the lives of end users and fellow engineers through rigorous production and research. We are a diverse group of independent-spirited people who thrive on great teamwork, continuous learning, and thoughtful craft.

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using System;

public class Program
{
	public static void Main()
	{
		string Hello = "Hello World";
		int Columbus = 1492;
		bool myPet = false;
		string Today = "9/27/16";

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am sdossettswift on github.
• I am sdossettswift (https://keybase.io/sdossettswift) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASBj4Z1S5rK7XfEd0Et7SW4imm6LWUq_g8WElAmgJoFSrQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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# Define a Robot class: A robot has a name
class Robot

  def initialize
    @name = "Robot"
  end

  def say_hi
    return "Hi, #{Robot.name}!"
  end

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Asking can be hard. Helping can be hard. But as Sasha Laundy explains, it is imperative to positive work culture that team members are mindful about asking for and providing help in ways that contribute to the common good.

Laundy leverages her technical knowledge with her pedagogical experience to outline strategies for both giving and recieving help. On the reciveing end, she provides five guidelines:

1) Choose to work in a positive environment. I was particularly encouraged to hear Laundy mention the privilege programmers have when it comes to the ability to choose where one wants to work. Coming from the practice of law (in a down market), few of my peers had many choices when it came to choosing a job based on cultural fit. Offers were scarce and people took (sometimes undesirable) jobs because they had to. That "culture" is such a buzzword in the tech world is indiciative of the collective understanding of possibility. Perhaps if law firms actively cultivated positive work environments, the instan