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Coding Sucks: Why a Job in Programming Is Absolute Hell
- ColinWright 12y agoExtensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667825 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667825 Here's the actual article: http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks And here are some previous submissions of this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673047
- angersock 12y agoI was chuckling a bit, but when I got to the part about the file of Good Code, I almost began weeping. At work. In front of my team, who probably haven't seen the madness yet. EDIT: "You now have one extra little fact to tuck away in the millions of little facts you have to memorize because so many of the programs you depend on are written by dicks and idiots." Once upon a time I used to joke about something similar, e.g., "Oh, you need to make sure that you've declared thus-and-such volatile or else the JVM will do $badThing" could've instead been a memory of a pleasant walk on the beach or something. After a while, it stopped being funny.