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What's your worst nightmare as a coder?

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Quentin Sonrel

Loosing my passion for coding (and computing in general).

Coding is really a passion to me but since I started working as professional dev I almost never code at home and I don't enjoy my professional projects as much as I used to enjoy the personal ones.

I sometimes feel like I'm wasting away my passion by having turned it into a job.

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Karl N. Redman

I hate the following scenario (which I've been part of many times in the past):

them: Here's a new urgent project. How long will it take to build it?

me: 2 weeks for a hack, 3 weeks to get it right. When is it needed?

them: We've already sold it, billing has gone out and we promised to deliver it last Thursday.

me: So, what is my drop-dead delivery date?

them: Last Thursday.

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Olisa Wakwe

Everything ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Miloslav ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿฆ‹ Voloskov

Typescript.

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Srikanth Anantharam

Not being allowed to code.

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Rob Kendal {{โ˜•}}

Clients...

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Chad Kunde

Hardware flaws that present as intermittent, inexplicable errors.

Basically, errors coming from below the lowest level I can inspect.

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Shannon Crabill

That I'm not as good of a coder as I think I am, but no one will tell me or point me in the right direction.

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Sethu Senthil

A light themed IDE

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Ayush Jain

Intermittent Bug, that's creepy shit

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