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How is it possible to be bored in software development - an area that is a fractal of unsolved problems? The only normal state of a software developer is "too m
by perdunov 12y ago
How is it possible to be bored in software development - an area that is a fractal of unsolved problems? The only normal state of a software developer is "too many things to do", otherwise it is a burn out, or a pathological lack of creativity.
- agonzalezro 12y agoWell, there are business constraints that doesn't allow you to investigate those fractal of unsolved problems. Imagine that your work 9 to 5 is creating some CRUD forms, and your company gets payed because you create those forms so, start investigating by your own is not a chance anyhow -> YOU GET BORED and you can not change the situation just by yourself.
- danuker 12y agoAs others have said, you can go 'meta' and create a script that creates those forms. Boom! you're being paid to watch a computer do everything for you.
- sheepmullet 12y agoA lot of more traditional places will fire you for trying to automate a task unless you do it on the sly or can do it quickly within a day or two.
- perdunov 12y agoTrue that, but even if I didn't get to implement my ideas, at least my boss had always been aware of them. There wasn't ever a situation when he'd thought that I was simply 'bored'.
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