Things Programmers Hate
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.
No.11 Salesmen who promote something that just cannot be done for the money. No.12 'Friends' who ask if you can do some minor undertaking that turns out to be much bigger and then think you did it because you just love working on computers in your own time and for free!
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.
Nice post. 10, 9, 5 probably worst for me.
Kevin
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They are sensitive souls and would never leave the house if they ever found themselves on such a list.
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Chris C-B wrote:
Not getting paid for the code you've written
e.g., like when in job-hunting you're given an upfront coding test to do via the recruitment agent and, in one recent case of mine, you're told it will take between 4 and 10 hours! :mad::thumbsdown:
Kevin
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.
They forgot spiders and running out of Mt. Dew.
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They are sensitive souls and would never leave the house if they ever found themselves on such a list.
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.
IT Evangelists - aka Seagulls - fly in, flap around a lot, drop a load of guano, then fly off oblivious to the consequences of their involvement.
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Chris C-B wrote:
Not getting paid for the code you've written
e.g., like when in job-hunting you're given an upfront coding test to do via the recruitment agent and, in one recent case of mine, you're told it will take between 4 and 10 hours! :mad::thumbsdown:
Kevin
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Hmm... So I have this 700 hour project and the average test time is 7 hours. So if I break the project into a hundred small modules, and interview a hundred prospective candidates... :EvilGrin:
Almost like Bob-A-Job week when I used to be in the Scouts.
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.
it's all true. and funny. but i want to add another: i hate the notion that programmers are special. at least half of that list is applicable to anyone with an office job, and the much of other half is domain-specific but could easily be shifted to any most other domain. is there any job where workers enjoy shifting demands and annoying co-workers ?
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Alan Beasley wrote:
I'm not sensitive
No, you're special. ;P
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Alan Beasley wrote:
I'm not sensitive
No, you're special. ;P
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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it's all true. and funny. but i want to add another: i hate the notion that programmers are special. at least half of that list is applicable to anyone with an office job, and the much of other half is domain-specific but could easily be shifted to any most other domain. is there any job where workers enjoy shifting demands and annoying co-workers ?
Chris Losinger wrote:
is there any job where workers enjoy shifting
The Removals Industry?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.
In 2b the author states, "Failing to understand that there is a time to debate system architecture and a time to get things done." This is often a catch phrase used my inexperienced idiots who are over-promoted to justify their indefensible position. Other common failings of other over promoted programmers are noticed by the constant utterance's of the following phrases: 1) We don't have enough time to do it right, just get it done 2) We don't have the budget to test 3) The architecture is perfect, 100% adherence without exception is required. (I recently used a mandated architecture that didn't support output parameters from SQL Server, nice, worse was the documentation said it did) 4) We will fix it later I have developed my own personal phrase that has become an inside joke amongst programmers I work with. First some background, in the business world, it is uncouth to ever say no. Disagreement is not allowed and neither is saying something cannot be done in a given budget/time constraint. In poorly management projects in which I have no control, I use the term, "Phase II". As in, "That is a great idea, we can fit it in in Phase II" or "Absolutely, our code should be able to support any database every written, ever, We can add that feature in Phase II".
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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I use the gas technique - silent but deadly! :)
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.
7: Management that doesn't understand programming The company I work for is fundamentally a hardware house, so software is our 'dirty little secret'. To give you a perspective on the attitude, about five years back a manager a couple levels up the food chain (formerly a mechanical engineer) from us told us that 'software development was not an inventive process'. Needless to say, I don't bother submitting patent suggestions. 9: Interruptions Since I do the user interfaces for our products, I seem to be everybody's first stop for problem reports. I spend an inordinate amount of time forwarding people on to the actual culprit. The machine is displaying an error message? Obviously a UI problem (the hardware could never have an actual fault). The machine won't run? Obviously a UI problem (the user didn't tell it to run by clicking the 'Run' button). The hardware is on fire? Obviously a UI problem (yes, this one actually happened). 8: Scope creep When there is no cost for marketing to request new features ('we've got to have XYZ, because everybody else does!'), and it's always engineering's fault for lack of sales ('if engineering would give us Alpha-Beta-Klepto 3.2 compatibility, we could sell hundreds of these suckers!'), requirements are always a moving target. In our world, 'waterfall development' describes the requirements more than the development process.
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In 2b the author states, "Failing to understand that there is a time to debate system architecture and a time to get things done." This is often a catch phrase used my inexperienced idiots who are over-promoted to justify their indefensible position. Other common failings of other over promoted programmers are noticed by the constant utterance's of the following phrases: 1) We don't have enough time to do it right, just get it done 2) We don't have the budget to test 3) The architecture is perfect, 100% adherence without exception is required. (I recently used a mandated architecture that didn't support output parameters from SQL Server, nice, worse was the documentation said it did) 4) We will fix it later I have developed my own personal phrase that has become an inside joke amongst programmers I work with. First some background, in the business world, it is uncouth to ever say no. Disagreement is not allowed and neither is saying something cannot be done in a given budget/time constraint. In poorly management projects in which I have no control, I use the term, "Phase II". As in, "That is a great idea, we can fit it in in Phase II" or "Absolutely, our code should be able to support any database every written, ever, We can add that feature in Phase II".
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
- The architecture is perfect, 100% adherence without exception is required.
[Dripping with Sarcasm]Gee... I've never had to deal with THAT one....[/Dripping with Sarcasm] ;P :jig: [Celebration]He finally left us!![/Celebration] :jig:
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.
Got me pegged to the T. Order could change daily though. Depends on just how bad that particular one is right now....
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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From todays Developer News:- top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/[^] Personally 10,9 and 3 would be my top 3.