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I don’t think that’s how stress works. If you’re prone to stressing about things then you’ll build up failure scenarios in your head relative to what you know.
by bnjms 3y ago
I don’t think that’s how stress works. If you’re prone to stressing about things then you’ll build up failure scenarios in your head relative to what you know.
The ER physician becomes desensitized during residency and learns to fall back on their training; or burn out into another role. Same for the rest.
- hnfong 3y agoEven worse, we’re professionally trained to consider all the edge cases, failure cases and write code defensively. I find most other professionals tending to be more “optimistic” than I am…
- sk0g 3y agoNow I wonder if there's correlation to a developer's preferred language, and their outlook in life. Do Gophers live under a shroud of nihilism, while Pythonistas run about their business laissez-faire, leaving issues for others or a future them to deal with?
- bheadmaster 3y agoIn my experience, writing Python was often followed by dread of some random exception popping up in production because my unit tests didn't pick it up. Writing Go was a much more pleasant experience, I always felt like the code does exactly what I want.
- sk0g 3y agoWriting Python is great, maintaining it is miserable. Conversely, writing Go is miserable, but maintaining it is great. Logically, the best of both worlds my work has arrived at is Python and on-call for more senior engineers... Fuck. The sheer amount of None-type, or object doesn't have member X errors is pretty ridiculous.
- fm2606 3y agoCorrect. I had a doctor tell me one time that when treating a patient "if you hear hoof beats don't look for zebras". Meaning, take what you see and hear for what they are. Because someone has a headache don't assume they have a brain tumor. I am over exaggerating here just to make a point.