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I've never heard a software developer complain about the software problems they face. The quality of the code, yes, the idiocy of management, the bureaucracy o
by lostcolony 10y ago
I've never heard a software developer complain about the software problems they face.
The quality of the code, yes, the idiocy of management, the bureaucracy of the corporate environment...but all of those are or stem from people problems, not innate to the actual process of generating code that does something. I doubt that anyone has ever left a job because the software problems they were solving were too hard.
I'm not saying your base point, that the reality of work is that some of it is unpleasant, is wrong; I largely agree with that (as even if you manage to build a product by yourself that is commercially successful, you start having to deal with users, meaning back to people problems). I -am- disagreeing with your example (because defining the source of the problems is necessary to improving your workplace, or finding a better one)
- TeMPOraL 10y agos/hard/boring/, and I think plenty of people left over that. Also, I left a job once because the problems I was solving were too hard and frustrating for me - that is, I was given CTO's paper on some math stuff and told to "code it", without having any explanations to what's that for and how it will be used. I guess I wasn't in the mood then for forced intellectual challenge of understanding the basics of the math field this paper was in. For me, I never get angry about programming problems. But I do get frustrated over e.g. the whole idea of the project I'm working on, or some design decisions made in it.
- Grishnakh 10y ago>I doubt that anyone has ever left a job because the software problems they were solving were too hard. I completely disagree. Why do you think some software developers move into management? Obviously, people like that are more interested in people problems than in coding problems.