Did Somebody Change Programming While I Was Working
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For 20 years I was a programmer. I wrote programs and systems, with various teams. We did requirements, design, coding, testing. It was intellectually stimulating and fun. The last three or four years, all I can find is crufty old code bases that grumpy bosses want point-features added to in a tremendous hurry. Either you can't fix the code ('cause you have to be a minimal change from some open-source thing), or you mustn't fix the code, because it is vastly over-complex and under-documented, and you'll break it. And besides, they don't want you thinking. That's what some marketing guy gets paid to do. (What an oxymoron). Please restore my faith and write back if you get to design beautiful new things.
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For 20 years I was a programmer. I wrote programs and systems, with various teams. We did requirements, design, coding, testing. It was intellectually stimulating and fun. The last three or four years, all I can find is crufty old code bases that grumpy bosses want point-features added to in a tremendous hurry. Either you can't fix the code ('cause you have to be a minimal change from some open-source thing), or you mustn't fix the code, because it is vastly over-complex and under-documented, and you'll break it. And besides, they don't want you thinking. That's what some marketing guy gets paid to do. (What an oxymoron). Please restore my faith and write back if you get to design beautiful new things.
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I got to code for a pretty neat website, essentially from scratch, with integration into an open source CMS. I got to learn XSLT, more JavaScript, jQuery, and some new ways of doing things, so it has been pretty fun. Right now I'm kind of bored though, as I'm making much of the site multilingual capable and there is a lot of tedious work involved. It sure would be more interesting if I actually learned all 10 languages the site is supposed to be in and did the translations myself. :)
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For 20 years I was a programmer. I wrote programs and systems, with various teams. We did requirements, design, coding, testing. It was intellectually stimulating and fun. The last three or four years, all I can find is crufty old code bases that grumpy bosses want point-features added to in a tremendous hurry. Either you can't fix the code ('cause you have to be a minimal change from some open-source thing), or you mustn't fix the code, because it is vastly over-complex and under-documented, and you'll break it. And besides, they don't want you thinking. That's what some marketing guy gets paid to do. (What an oxymoron). Please restore my faith and write back if you get to design beautiful new things.
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For 20 years I was a programmer. I wrote programs and systems, with various teams. We did requirements, design, coding, testing. It was intellectually stimulating and fun. The last three or four years, all I can find is crufty old code bases that grumpy bosses want point-features added to in a tremendous hurry. Either you can't fix the code ('cause you have to be a minimal change from some open-source thing), or you mustn't fix the code, because it is vastly over-complex and under-documented, and you'll break it. And besides, they don't want you thinking. That's what some marketing guy gets paid to do. (What an oxymoron). Please restore my faith and write back if you get to design beautiful new things.
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I'm writing something new. It is a rather small project though, just a few screens but fun. I'm using Silverlight and a MVVM pattern. I spent about a month learning this stuff and I am happy that I finally know what I am doing. I was very anti-Silverlight, but the UI is faster / better than HTML and Javascript.
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For 20 years I was a programmer. I wrote programs and systems, with various teams. We did requirements, design, coding, testing. It was intellectually stimulating and fun. The last three or four years, all I can find is crufty old code bases that grumpy bosses want point-features added to in a tremendous hurry. Either you can't fix the code ('cause you have to be a minimal change from some open-source thing), or you mustn't fix the code, because it is vastly over-complex and under-documented, and you'll break it. And besides, they don't want you thinking. That's what some marketing guy gets paid to do. (What an oxymoron). Please restore my faith and write back if you get to design beautiful new things.
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Maybe you can change company! ;-)
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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I'm writing something new. It is a rather small project though, just a few screens but fun. I'm using Silverlight and a MVVM pattern. I spent about a month learning this stuff and I am happy that I finally know what I am doing. I was very anti-Silverlight, but the UI is faster / better than HTML and Javascript.
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ToddHileHoffer wrote:
the UI is faster / better than HTML and Javascript
Understatement of the century! :)
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For 20 years I was a programmer. I wrote programs and systems, with various teams. We did requirements, design, coding, testing. It was intellectually stimulating and fun. The last three or four years, all I can find is crufty old code bases that grumpy bosses want point-features added to in a tremendous hurry. Either you can't fix the code ('cause you have to be a minimal change from some open-source thing), or you mustn't fix the code, because it is vastly over-complex and under-documented, and you'll break it. And besides, they don't want you thinking. That's what some marketing guy gets paid to do. (What an oxymoron). Please restore my faith and write back if you get to design beautiful new things.
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For 20 years I was a programmer. I wrote programs and systems, with various teams. We did requirements, design, coding, testing. It was intellectually stimulating and fun. The last three or four years, all I can find is crufty old code bases that grumpy bosses want point-features added to in a tremendous hurry. Either you can't fix the code ('cause you have to be a minimal change from some open-source thing), or you mustn't fix the code, because it is vastly over-complex and under-documented, and you'll break it. And besides, they don't want you thinking. That's what some marketing guy gets paid to do. (What an oxymoron). Please restore my faith and write back if you get to design beautiful new things.
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Member 2941392 wrote:
mustn't fix the code, because it is vastly over-complex and under-documented, and you'll break it.
Thats why cobol *itches make $1** hour.
Yes, somebody changed the economics of programming (I've been programming for 42 years.) Allowing programmers to have fun has become too expensive because the 'market' has become sensitive only to the lowest price. We have only ourselves to blame for this because we all search for the lowest price on just about everything. This is why customer service had gone into the toilet and why being a programmer isn't much fun any more. Do what I did: retire and let them all go to H***! (except cave 76) The last bit is for the old-timers.