One of my peeves are the age old. "What does your significant other do?" "Oh they just work with computers."
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One of my peeves are the age old. "What does your significant other do?" "Oh they just work with computers."
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The way Hollywood and news media associate use of CLIs and IDEs with "hacking".
Customers who dial you into their live webex with traders to fix their IE6 and somebody else's crappy site.
ihaveaproblemheresascreenshotplsfixwillbebackinamonthbye (forgets to attach, goes offline).
Work due in a week and your hands are full? Here's an intern I hired for one week - train him to help you!
Architect Bob estimated he can finish all of this in 1 hour, I need it done by you in 1 hour.
CFO: Heres a cheapo Business Intelligence app, go build me a dashboard!
I "Like it" when my "friends" come and ask me «You work with computers, could you fix my computer?, Windows won't boot!»...
I have a programmer-friend who answers this requests with «when your oven is broken, do you ask a Chef to fix it?»
when your oven is broken, do you ask a Chef to fix it?
Good answer ;) I should remember that.
I need to chip in
The notion from business people that since Google and Facebook deliver software at scale, and fast, is that you are just as capable. Hey, if Facebook can, you, being a developer after all, are just as awesome and thats when an endless stream of misunderstanding, confusion and pain come from.
"Oh, just add a simple Facebook login" does not translate to a simpler implementation of Oauth2 token passing
"Its a simple matching algorithm" does not ease off any of the underlying tech that translates to bounds checking, sorting and optimization techniques
"You need to make it simple for the users so they dont think" is probably the one that got me over the edge to the point I am just today returning to some code after three weeks of regaining sanity after binging weeks trying to deliver a 80 thousand dollar app with myself and my trustee single EC2
I hate business people. On the other hand, I also love them. My take here is that business people need to be constantly involved in the technology.
Same goes for coders. Business isnt "just talking to people".
Have been told that software developers are the modern day punk rockers, but I have no interest in spittin' on my users.
Guess it was more a sales pitch aimed towards the CEO, because he seemed to nod approvingly.
I guess the one that annoys me the most is the misconception to those outside the industry that I know everything about all areas of computing because I "work with computers" or "are in IT".
In the past I would often be expected to know how to fix the computers of friends/family/staff/others or sort their networking issues etc when my area of expertise is in web development.
The stereotype that annoys me personally the most is that being a good software developer is equivalent to being good at writing code.
People just completely skip over the fact that developing software is a team effort and, as in any team, communication skills are crucial.
When asking themselves "I wish to progress my career further, what should I do today?" I wish more people would answer:
I'm not sure if this will qualify as a stereotype.
It is this notion that developers are developers because they are "Computer Addicts".
A pilot, in the cockpit for a 9 or 12 or 15 hour flight, is very likely addicted to flying, and a "Plane Addict", I guess.
Carpenters are thus addicted to hammers and nails, wood and finishes. Tailors and seamstresses are addicted to sowing machines and thread bobbins.
How does using a computer in my line of work make me an addict?
And yes, some ladies from our part of the world bet not to enter relationships with developers, as they argue, we're 'married to computers'.
Very sad for them, as developers can be some of the simple-minded people to be with. ;)
I witnessed a conversation between a man and woman go this way. The man, a network admin asked the woman what she did for a living. “I’m a network admin.” His reply “so you run cable then.” I was beyond furious. He was and still is a sexist jerk, but I was so shocked at the time I didn’t tell him off for his awful behavior. I regret not saying anything.
That programmers are asocial, anti-social, arrogant or otherwise. Good programmers are sociable and agreeable. Good programmers don't work in a realm of silence, or on their own. Good programmers understand more than code and willing to work with others.