I think a lot of us can relate to this article.
I think a lot of us can relate to this article… “Not a single living person knows how everything in your five-year-old MacBook actually works. Why do we tell you to turn it off and on again? Because we don’t have the slightest clue what’s wrong with it, and it’s really easy to induce coma in computers and have their built-in team of automatic doctors try to figure it out for us. The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.”
Read more at http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks#DlIFGQSOmvvMtCy0.99
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April 23rd, 2015 at 5:14 am
Another bit… “The human brain isn’t particularly good at basic logic and now there’s a whole career in doing nothing but really, really complex logic. Vast chains of abstract conditions and requirements have to be picked through to discover things like missing commas. Doing this all day leaves you in a state of mild aphasia as you look at people’s faces while they’re speaking and you don’t know they’ve finished because there’s no semicolon.”
Stupid trailing semicolon.
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April 25th, 2015 at 12:23 pm
That gave me a good laugh!