The evolution of a coder
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As I've matriculated as a coder I've noticed several watershed moments in my development of the craft. It has to do with what I typically swear at. Over the years, I've gone from primarily swearing at the languages for not having what I want To primarily swearing at the compiler for not doing what I want To primarily swearing at my IDE and toolchains for breaking :)
Real programmers use butterflies
I can surely attest to the IDE part. No MDI code windows without getting into a fistfight with the IDE. No built in user recorded macros, had to find an add-on. I could go on...
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Soon you'll be swearing at old code (by some anonymous coder)... :laugh:
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Super Lloyd wrote:
Soon you'll be swearing at old code (by some anonymous coder you)...
FTFY
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As I've matriculated as a coder I've noticed several watershed moments in my development of the craft. It has to do with what I typically swear at. Over the years, I've gone from primarily swearing at the languages for not having what I want To primarily swearing at the compiler for not doing what I want To primarily swearing at my IDE and toolchains for breaking :)
Real programmers use butterflies
Hm, for the first 15 or so years of my career I was an assembly language programmer (embedded engineer). Really couldn't swear at the language or the assembler. There was no IDE so no swearing there. After C/C++ became a viable option for embedded work, I was able to swear at the IDE's (mostly the debugger). Over all in my career, most of my swearing has been at management.
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dandy72 wrote:
Where What do you see yourself swearing at in 10 years?
FTFY :)
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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I'm simple folk. I just swear at Microsoft for screwing with developers in the last 10+ years.
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John Torjo wrote:
I just swear at Microsoft for screwing with developers in the last 10+ years.
They've been at it for far longer than just the last 10 years.
Obviously :D But roughly 10 years ago, they made it their mission :D
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Beer and pizza fridays. Nobody cared that I wasn't 21. :laugh: ETA: I totally identify with Cameron from Halt and Catch Fire. She was a woman after my own heart.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Obviously :D But roughly 10 years ago, they made it their mission :D
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As I've matriculated as a coder I've noticed several watershed moments in my development of the craft. It has to do with what I typically swear at. Over the years, I've gone from primarily swearing at the languages for not having what I want To primarily swearing at the compiler for not doing what I want To primarily swearing at my IDE and toolchains for breaking :)
Real programmers use butterflies
I went from doing stuff the way it's been done before, assuming there is genius there I'm just too inexperienced to recognize, to recognize unmaintainable rat's nests for what they are, questioning everything, from architecture to workflows.