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The Hells Every Developer Experiences

Wade Zimmerman on June 12, 2021

Every programmer has a tale to share about vicious cycles in their life. Here are a few common forms of torture for the eternally damned: ...
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Faran Aiki •

"Please, can you fix my printer?"

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Andrei Jiroh Halili •

Me: I'm an developer, not an [CENSORED] IT technician.

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Faran Aiki •

Yes, I do hope people know the difference; there are many branches of computer sciences.

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Andrei Jiroh Halili •

But what if software developers/engineers that also IT sysadmins are in the human resources teams?

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erica (she/her) •

"I'm a software person, not a hardware person" is my go-to for that one and all related questions

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Jan Küster 🔥 •

salespeople sold feature which is yet not implented hell

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Dan Silcox •

Haha yes the classic 'building the tracks from the front of the train' story:
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Nic •

Those Dilbert cartoons illustrate those points perfectly!

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daveclarke •

The last developer was much faster than you are.

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Dan Silcox •

Them: "It's broken"
Me: "Can you be more specific?"
Them: "I THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE A PRO I NEED THIS FIXED ASAP!!!111"

Thankfully not had this in my current job but wow... :D

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monor001 • • Edited

Employer: "We would like to replace the technology we currently use with this famous one". Me: Why? Is there any technical reasons?
Employer: No, it's just the trend of these days. We need to immigrant for the sake of immigration!

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Rishit Khandelwal •

Right

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Pierre Vahlberg •

Definitely defending broken code/bugs with "i swear it worked on my machine/when I tested it ten minutes ago"

... well, its obviously broken so do something about it instead. 😅

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Adam Crockett 🌀 •

Hmmm I had a job like this ^^^

Not every job is like this ^^^

You might find less hell one day

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Doaa Mahely •

“Unable to be able” 🤣

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Phong Duong •

Funny

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Jeroen Rombouts •

Good and fun article.

Though, I was wondering why a commit would wear makeup...

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Theo Oliveira •

10 is so awfully truth, or truthy? Lol

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official_dulin •

Since there is callback, there should be concurrency