Programming sucks
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I couldn't find this using the Search, so I thought I'd share. Programming Sucks[^] A few exerpts:
Every programmer starts out writing some perfect little snowflake like this. Then they're told on Friday they need to have six hundred snowflakes written by Tuesday, so they cheat a bit here and there and maybe copy a few snowflakes and try to stick them together or they have to ask a coworker to work on one who melts it and then all the programmers' snowflakes get dumped together in some inscrutable shape and somebody leans a Picasso on it because nobody wants to see the cat urine soaking into all your broken snowflakes melting in the light of day. Next week, everybody shovels more snow on it to keep the Picasso from falling over. There's a theory that you can cure this by following standards, except there are more "standards" than there are things computers can actually do, and these standards are all variously improved and maligned by the personal preferences of the people coding them, so no collection of code has ever made it into the real world without doing a few dozen identical things a few dozen not even remotely similar ways. The first few weeks of any job are just figuring out how a program works even if you're familiar with every single language, framework, and standard that's involved, because standards are unicorns.
You can't restart the internet. Trillions of dollars depend on a rickety cobweb of unofficial agreements and "good enough for now" code with comments like "TODO: FIX THIS IT'S A REALLY DANGEROUS HACK BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG" that were written ten years ago. I haven't even mentioned the legions of people attacking various parts of the internet for espionage and profit or because they're bored. Ever heard of 4chan? 4chan might destroy your life and business because they decided they didn't like you for an afternoon, and we don't even worry about 4chan because another nuke doesn't make that much difference in a nuclear winter.
Can I get an "Amen!"
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I couldn't find this using the Search, so I thought I'd share. Programming Sucks[^] A few exerpts:
Every programmer starts out writing some perfect little snowflake like this. Then they're told on Friday they need to have six hundred snowflakes written by Tuesday, so they cheat a bit here and there and maybe copy a few snowflakes and try to stick them together or they have to ask a coworker to work on one who melts it and then all the programmers' snowflakes get dumped together in some inscrutable shape and somebody leans a Picasso on it because nobody wants to see the cat urine soaking into all your broken snowflakes melting in the light of day. Next week, everybody shovels more snow on it to keep the Picasso from falling over. There's a theory that you can cure this by following standards, except there are more "standards" than there are things computers can actually do, and these standards are all variously improved and maligned by the personal preferences of the people coding them, so no collection of code has ever made it into the real world without doing a few dozen identical things a few dozen not even remotely similar ways. The first few weeks of any job are just figuring out how a program works even if you're familiar with every single language, framework, and standard that's involved, because standards are unicorns.
You can't restart the internet. Trillions of dollars depend on a rickety cobweb of unofficial agreements and "good enough for now" code with comments like "TODO: FIX THIS IT'S A REALLY DANGEROUS HACK BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG" that were written ten years ago. I haven't even mentioned the legions of people attacking various parts of the internet for espionage and profit or because they're bored. Ever heard of 4chan? 4chan might destroy your life and business because they decided they didn't like you for an afternoon, and we don't even worry about 4chan because another nuke doesn't make that much difference in a nuclear winter.
Can I get an "Amen!"
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And now it is showing up. Never mind X|
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I couldn't find this using the Search, so I thought I'd share. Programming Sucks[^] A few exerpts:
Every programmer starts out writing some perfect little snowflake like this. Then they're told on Friday they need to have six hundred snowflakes written by Tuesday, so they cheat a bit here and there and maybe copy a few snowflakes and try to stick them together or they have to ask a coworker to work on one who melts it and then all the programmers' snowflakes get dumped together in some inscrutable shape and somebody leans a Picasso on it because nobody wants to see the cat urine soaking into all your broken snowflakes melting in the light of day. Next week, everybody shovels more snow on it to keep the Picasso from falling over. There's a theory that you can cure this by following standards, except there are more "standards" than there are things computers can actually do, and these standards are all variously improved and maligned by the personal preferences of the people coding them, so no collection of code has ever made it into the real world without doing a few dozen identical things a few dozen not even remotely similar ways. The first few weeks of any job are just figuring out how a program works even if you're familiar with every single language, framework, and standard that's involved, because standards are unicorns.
You can't restart the internet. Trillions of dollars depend on a rickety cobweb of unofficial agreements and "good enough for now" code with comments like "TODO: FIX THIS IT'S A REALLY DANGEROUS HACK BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG" that were written ten years ago. I haven't even mentioned the legions of people attacking various parts of the internet for espionage and profit or because they're bored. Ever heard of 4chan? 4chan might destroy your life and business because they decided they didn't like you for an afternoon, and we don't even worry about 4chan because another nuke doesn't make that much difference in a nuclear winter.
Can I get an "Amen!"
I have to say since I discovered MVVM all my program are beautiful! ;P Event better with Knockout I can use MVVM in web apps too! ;P If I mix it with bootstrap and MVC my previously anaemic Web skills can suddenly achieve amazing web app (compatible with IE8) with little effort! :P
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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I have to say since I discovered MVVM all my program are beautiful! ;P Event better with Knockout I can use MVVM in web apps too! ;P If I mix it with bootstrap and MVC my previously anaemic Web skills can suddenly achieve amazing web app (compatible with IE8) with little effort! :P
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
I used to do COBOL programming according the ideas of MVC/MVVM and it was beautiful too...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I used to do COBOL programming according the ideas of MVC/MVVM and it was beautiful too...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
Haha, well, I will take your word on it! ^^
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Haha, well, I will take your word on it! ^^
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
In a few days time I can dig up some of those code - I already have them somewhere...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I used to do COBOL programming according the ideas of MVC/MVVM and it was beautiful too...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
It wasn't TPMS under ICL VME by any chance, was it? Regards, Stewart
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I have to say since I discovered MVVM all my program are beautiful! ;P Event better with Knockout I can use MVVM in web apps too! ;P If I mix it with bootstrap and MVC my previously anaemic Web skills can suddenly achieve amazing web app (compatible with IE8) with little effort! :P
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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I have to say since I discovered MVVM all my program are beautiful! ;P Event better with Knockout I can use MVVM in web apps too! ;P If I mix it with bootstrap and MVC my previously anaemic Web skills can suddenly achieve amazing web app (compatible with IE8) with little effort! :P
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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MVVM is a good design paradigm and I fully support it, but it certainly doesn't stop people writing terrible code.
Yep! But it is now easier than ever to write easy to maintain application! All the kudos don't go to the pattern, some goes to the tools too! I didn't try, but I can't imagine using MVVM with WinForm! :omg:
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Super Lloyd wrote:
compatible with IE8
All those fancy frameworks and you're already obsolete :sigh:
Mmm? My fancy app work fine on IE8? What is the obsolete thing about?! :^)
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Yep! But it is now easier than ever to write easy to maintain application! All the kudos don't go to the pattern, some goes to the tools too! I didn't try, but I can't imagine using MVVM with WinForm! :omg:
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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You can apply the design ideas anywhere. I've used it in WinForms applications, in web apps (though it's usually called MVC there), in WPF/Silverlight obviously, and also in Flash.
I missed an important part of my meaning. I said that with KO (or WPF) it's EASY to do MVVM / MVC. It might have been possible before but it was less easy, not technically, but in term of quantity of code you had to type!
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
