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Ask HN: What do people not understand about being a software developer?

• eksemplar 8y ago
  Development and operations are two very different things, that just happen to be friends, so please stop asking me to do tech support. I’m as bad at using windows as you are, maybe worse.
• suff 8y ago
  You need to know a minimum of 7 (seven) languages, not just one.
• sidcool 8y ago
  The reason behind varying estimates. People seem to tell programming is an act of typing.
  • 8draco8 8y ago
    Exactly this. Some people have hard time to understand that sometimes writing 5 lines of code can take whole day of chasing the bug and sometimes if everything goes smooth whole system can be prototype in a day.