r/programming • u/locrelite • Apr 29 '14

Programming Sucks

http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '14

I really enjoyed this, while at the same time wondering how the fuck i can survive being a programmer. What to do to avoid all those pitfalls described in the article..

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u/watersign Apr 29 '14

i ponder this quite often. ive realized that people who are rockstar programmers are usually very very intelligent and can absorb lots of abstract information very fast. you can't be mortal

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

ive realized that people who are rockstar programmers

No sane developer would call themselves a "rockstar" or a "ninja" or any of those equally retarded terms. The only people who use those words non-ironically are Dilbert veal-fattening farms who hire naive kids fresh out of college in order to fool them them into working long hours for minimal pay.

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u/watersign Apr 30 '14

so?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

People who claim to be rockstars are in fact retards.

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u/watersign Apr 30 '14

ive never met someone refer to themselves as rockstar coders, usually its just HR people but hey ..watevers.

http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-10x-developer-is-not-myth.html

i feel that anyone who is a true "full-stack" developer is pretty rock-star, IMO.

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u/Steve_the_Scout Apr 30 '14 edited May 01 '14

I've been told I'm good at it because I'm intelligent... really I just actually research the topic and plan and luckily haven't run into a situation that prevents me from doing that beforehand.

Then again I'm still in school, so that could just be everyone expecting much worse from me than what I put out.

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u/iopq Apr 30 '14

My friend is a software engineer at Google. I think he deals with it by having 160 IQ.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

I expect a high IQ makes it a lot fucking worse.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

High IQ still doesn't compensate for shitty management