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They should have included a category 'below 0': "User attempts to complete task by using the interface provided to him. Gives up in disgust after 15 minutes. Sp
by roel_v 10y ago
They should have included a category 'below 0': "User attempts to complete task by using the interface provided to him. Gives up in disgust after 15 minutes. Spends next 8 hours to (in this order) use common automation tools to reach his goals, write small scripts, reverse engineer the data and network formats, and disassemble the executable to inject his own hooks. After still failing to accomplish task, user tries to gradually replace parts of the provided software with his own versions; first using quick glue languages, eventually having to resort to rewrote large core parts in C just to have enough control of all components to make them interoperate. After 4 weeks of caffeine-fueled 16 hour days, user declares war on the vendor and starts writing his own version of the software and ecosystem to free humanity of the plague that is this god-forsaken piece of crapware. After 8 months of battling 30 years of legacy interoperability, data exchange formats and interfaces and the 8th question from Suzy in Admin about where the button that made the one thing with the blue border go away and then made the green other thing go bleep bleep has gone, user flees to off-grid cabin in the mountains with a beard below his collarbone and a crazed look in his eyes, while muttering 'they drew first blood. They drew first blood.' The end."
(bonus upvote for the first person to recognize the movie reference)
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- jswny 10y agoI don't know where this is from but it literally made me laugh out loud, so thank you.
- roel_v 10y agoIt's [OC] so thank you - and I'm not ashamed to admit that during the first few hours after I posted it, it was up/downvoted a bit and it even got to -1 for some time; and that at that point I cried a tiny little tear inside, filled with essence of the programmer's existentialist anxiety...
- hbk1966 10y agoSounds like a normal day. Rambo: First Blood reference also :)