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What you describe does not look like the typical software developer job at all. Certainly not anyone can write software. In fact, many who see themselves as "c

What you describe does not look like the typical software developer job at all. Certainly not anyone can write software. In fact, many who see themselves as "coders" are not very good at it themselves. Edit: I've found it's a bit similar to law in terms of skills and mindset. Some people struggle to follow the text of an actual law. Then, drafting an actual law is an even more specialised skill. In both software and law, if you draft badly you will face problems...

urVeryWrong 7y ago
Wow, really? Because GP describes my exact experiences. I've job hopped for going on ten years now, and every slot I've inhabited was just a bunch of self-important, pendantic board game experts throwing their weight around, until they struck fear or induced mental fatigue, and wore you down to get their way. Nasty pieces of shit, barking like tiny dogs about syntactic preferences and vocabulary pissing contests, nothing more. There were a handful of rare birds at one place, and when I say rare, I mean it, because even inside the company, there were all of maybe ten people that sharp, and there rest were posturing imposters. Let's recount some of the worst. Fat nerds, pissed off about constant usage versus scooped variables, and getting in people's faces about JavaScript factoids that lack real value. Girls who code waiting to receive their daily pair-programming ass kissing session, because girl (that's right, TWO X chromosomes, AND I sit at a desk all day! Please, please, no autographs!). Meanwhile, numerous 40 and 50 year old women lumber about, chatting up fellow parents about their latest medical condition, news about their kids, or both. Walking talking dick-for-brains brogrammers talking about last years epic spring break bikini contests, while swiping through their phone's photo album brimming with tits and ass, as if they're TRYING to provoke the fat nerds into an active shooter incident. Non-binary conversation chores scuttling about with darting eyes, because they're walking around in their latest experimental underwear, dosed on horomones and looking for reasons to name drop pronouns and ask if you'll be attending the activist meeting on Wednesday. True robots that lead you to question if the machines are already walking among us. Tempermental, neurotic Jews. Culture shocked Indians that rush home at five sharp, to clock in at their arranged marriage. The extremely rare black guy, extroverting blackness as hard as possible to compensate for role he's expected to play in whatever buddy movie Mel Gibson can't do another sequel for. And, oh yeah, Asians because someone lied and told them programming was really about math. Also, godless communist Russians keeping a low profile because their smuggling malware payloads behind firewalls for Putin. Is that everybody? Let's see... Who am I missing... Oh yeah, inept QA disembarking from the short bus, and autistic security "experts" incapable of engaging in conversation that doesn't involve Warhammer 40K trivia.
C1sc0cat 7y ago
I sometimes think drafting laws badly is a feature not a bug - after all think of all that lucrative legal work for other lawyers.
- bildung 7y ago
  Couldn't the same (IMO flawed) reasoning applied to the topic at hand? "Computers are made complicated on purpose - after all think of all the lucrative programming jobs"
  - C1sc0cat 7y ago
    Not in the case of laws :-( I know of one infamous Pensions case that dragged on for well over a decade in the UK over some arcane legal arguments. Of course the longer the case went on the more pensioners died

urVeryWrong 7y ago

Wow, really? Because GP describes my exact experiences. I've job hopped for going on ten years now, and every slot I've inhabited was just a bunch of self-important, pendantic board game experts throwing their weight around, until they struck fear or induced mental fatigue, and wore you down to get their way. Nasty pieces of shit, barking like tiny dogs about syntactic preferences and vocabulary pissing contests, nothing more. There were a handful of rare birds at one place, and when I say rare, I mean it, because even inside the company, there were all of maybe ten people that sharp, and there rest were posturing imposters. Let's recount some of the worst. Fat nerds, pissed off about constant usage versus scooped variables, and getting in people's faces about JavaScript factoids that lack real value. Girls who code waiting to receive their daily pair-programming ass kissing session, because girl (that's right, TWO X chromosomes, AND I sit at a desk all day! Please, please, no autographs!). Meanwhile, numerous 40 and 50 year old women lumber about, chatting up fellow parents about their latest medical condition, news about their kids, or both. Walking talking dick-for-brains brogrammers talking about last years epic spring break bikini contests, while swiping through their phone's photo album brimming with tits and ass, as if they're TRYING to provoke the fat nerds into an active shooter incident. Non-binary conversation chores scuttling about with darting eyes, because they're walking around in their latest experimental underwear, dosed on horomones and looking for reasons to name drop pronouns and ask if you'll be attending the activist meeting on Wednesday. True robots that lead you to question if the machines are already walking among us. Tempermental, neurotic Jews. Culture shocked Indians that rush home at five sharp, to clock in at their arranged marriage. The extremely rare black guy, extroverting blackness as hard as possible to compensate for role he's expected to play in whatever buddy movie Mel Gibson can't do another sequel for. And, oh yeah, Asians because someone lied and told them programming was really about math. Also, godless communist Russians keeping a low profile because their smuggling malware payloads behind firewalls for Putin. Is that everybody? Let's see... Who am I missing... Oh yeah, inept QA disembarking from the short bus, and autistic security "experts" incapable of engaging in conversation that doesn't involve Warhammer 40K trivia.

C1sc0cat 7y ago

I sometimes think drafting laws badly is a feature not a bug - after all think of all that lucrative legal work for other lawyers.

bildung 7y ago
Couldn't the same (IMO flawed) reasoning applied to the topic at hand? "Computers are made complicated on purpose - after all think of all the lucrative programming jobs"
- C1sc0cat 7y ago
  Not in the case of laws :-( I know of one infamous Pensions case that dragged on for well over a decade in the UK over some arcane legal arguments. Of course the longer the case went on the more pensioners died