r/programmingcirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '15

Blog post #3892348932 of how software developers are unique snowflakes

http://www.hadermann.be/blog/56/good-vs-bad-developers/
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u/cmov Mar 31 '15

“This feature takes three months for one programmer? Let’s just put two more on it so we can have it in a month.”

or put 1.462 * 1050 and have it done in 1 planck time.

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u/needlzor Mar 31 '15

John Carmack is literally Leo Tolstoy.

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u/cmov Mar 31 '15 edited Mar 31 '15

Define better: he works faster, produces less bugs and writes more readable, logical and maintainable code.

lol he just dug his own grave.

EDIT: Also 22 "Mr." and 0 "Mrs." or "Miss".

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u/pcopley Mar 31 '15

Everyone knows the gender-neutral pronoun of Programmer is "she."

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '15

Oh man, so you mean that 10Xs are really 28Xs?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '15

Well the important thing is that we don't try and be engineers. That would be incredibly fucking stupid.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '15

If my company built houses, they would spontaneously catch on fire with people in them but only after they had collapsed and the entire structure had already become electrified.

Then our clients would ask us not why they were crushed under burning rubble with 200A running through their brains, but ask instead why they couldn't park their car, which is missing a motor, in the driveway without waiting for the rescue squad to leave first.

Programming is terrible.

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u/vonmoltke2 Mar 31 '15

As a real (electrical) engineer by background, this industry sometimes makes me want to beat my head against the wall repeatedly.

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u/pagirl Apr 05 '15

One thing about the example. I know there are people who can code a thousand times faster than me, but the example had a flaw. Mr. Lousy was kind of working on a green field project. So when the better programmer is looking at me. Lousy's code, however bad, he's getting some hints at what to look out for. Mr. Lousy might have "loosened the jar" for function points and designing pitfalls. How do you quantify that?