I am a Programming God
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Well, that's how I feel anyway. I just spent the afternoon installing Visual Studio community on macOS, installing brew and node and npm and webpack and all my node packages and working out how to connect to Azure devops to clone my project and, after some swearing, it compiled. It compiled and the damn thing ran This calls for another :beer: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
cheers Chris Maunder
Part of me is awestruck because I have to summon lots of inner strength to attempt this sort of thing. I'm next to hopeless at installing and configuring anything complex, partly because I think useful stuff should work nearly straight away, with little fuss. The other part of me says this is tech support, not programming. How many lines of code had to be written? I guess it's a sign of the times that this, not writing code, is a sign of godhood.
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Well, that's how I feel anyway. I just spent the afternoon installing Visual Studio community on macOS, installing brew and node and npm and webpack and all my node packages and working out how to connect to Azure devops to clone my project and, after some swearing, it compiled. It compiled and the damn thing ran This calls for another :beer: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
cheers Chris Maunder
Good for you, you should feel that good! That's a bit of a handful...
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Part of me is awestruck because I have to summon lots of inner strength to attempt this sort of thing. I'm next to hopeless at installing and configuring anything complex, partly because I think useful stuff should work nearly straight away, with little fuss. The other part of me says this is tech support, not programming. How many lines of code had to be written? I guess it's a sign of the times that this, not writing code, is a sign of godhood.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Greg Utas wrote:
partly because I think useful stuff should work nearly straight away, with little fuss.
I'm with on this.
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Well, that's how I feel anyway. I just spent the afternoon installing Visual Studio community on macOS, installing brew and node and npm and webpack and all my node packages and working out how to connect to Azure devops to clone my project and, after some swearing, it compiled. It compiled and the damn thing ran This calls for another :beer: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
Rarely. All too often, I have to deal with "stuff" that programmers wrote with, at best, the context that they are writing it for other programmers. It's a rare thing when a programmer thinks at a higher level: yes, this is for other programmers but I should think of them as users and see how I can make their life as easy as possible. So mostly what amazes me is that I haven't ditched this career and become an organic farmer. Regardless, congratulations! And we all knew already you were a programming God. :laugh:
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Well, that's how I feel anyway. I just spent the afternoon installing Visual Studio community on macOS, installing brew and node and npm and webpack and all my node packages and working out how to connect to Azure devops to clone my project and, after some swearing, it compiled. It compiled and the damn thing ran This calls for another :beer: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
cheers Chris Maunder
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"Installing God". :)
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
++++ Installing prerequisites - prophet..., worshippers... +++++ ++++ God cannot install - Universe restarting +++++ ++++ Out of cheese error +++++
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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++++ Installing prerequisites - prophet..., worshippers... +++++ ++++ God cannot install - Universe restarting +++++ ++++ Out of cheese error +++++
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
That's my normal; stuff refuses to install. Missing packages and such. You make fun of it, but it is our daily experience.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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That's my normal; stuff refuses to install. Missing packages and such. You make fun of it, but it is our daily experience.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
Hey, I'm in the same business. If I didn't keep a sense of humour about these things, I'd be even crazier than I am now. :demented grin:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Hey, I'm in the same business. If I didn't keep a sense of humour about these things, I'd be even crazier than I am now. :demented grin:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
I don't need humor, I'm paid as an employee. I just go to the manager and go like "you not gonna like this, but.." Not my problem, never was, and not paid to.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well, that's how I feel anyway. I just spent the afternoon installing Visual Studio community on macOS, installing brew and node and npm and webpack and all my node packages and working out how to connect to Azure devops to clone my project and, after some swearing, it compiled. It compiled and the damn thing ran This calls for another :beer: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
Now don't take this the wrong way, but it reminds me of a recommendation I make (on occasion) to wit: "If you're going to bang your head on the wall, do it in the corner of the room. It's twice as effective and you can finish sooner." There may be some relevance. Or not.
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