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  • yesdogishere@kbin.socialtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    9 months ago

    the worst part for me, was not only being unable to estimate the time to solve the bug, i found that often the problem was in syntax or shadings of understanding on how functions or bracket syntax worked. i could refer to all the biggest programming books off the shelves, and the answers they provided would not work. Programming is one of those professions where answers lay with people who had busted their brains or lucked it trying to make it work, and had collected over many years, snippets of code which they knew worked. If you weren’t chummy with these people, you would never find the answer. This isn’t really a worthwhile profession. Unlike physics, or maths, where there is an independent answer governed by forces outside of an individual human, programming is a profession which inherently depends on learning errors from another human. It’s a pointless profession and gets you nowhere in life at the end. Sadly. (Unlike say law, or accounting or physics, where at old age, you know more about the world around you.)


  • the worst part about debugging for me, is i have no idea how long it will be before i can solve a single bug. it could take me 2 hours, 1 day, a week, no idea. Because i have no idea where the bug came from. I have ti go through increasingly more detailed testing cycles. Then devise more laborious testing cycles. This is why i chose not to work as a programmer. In other professions, I know i can give an estimate of the time taken to complete the task. Debugging? No real idea. What if the boss says finish it by tomorrow? I might be there all night.













  • there is nothing about being a troll if legitimate concerns are being raised. these concerns need to be raised now. it’s good helldiver pointed some replies, but im guessing they will not be complete enough. people need to stop thinking the current state of information disclosure is enough. it isn’t enough. look at the way crypto is disclosed. 50% of users have no clue wtf is going on. info needs to be disclosed in clear and concise and non-technobabble ways. github is horrible. it’s full of geekspeak. we need to do better if we are to save humanity. we cannot wait till 500 years to solve hyperspace. we need to solve it now. that is why this is not being a troll. because we need to push ourselves. harder, faster, better than ever! look at fusion power. should have been solved 10 0 years ago. wtf is humanity doing? just scamming and cheating their way around. geezus. no wonder alien civs are not interested in talking to us. get real.




  • the true answer is it is a STUPID GAME. Any game which causes your IQ is decline the moment you glance at it, is a stupid game. Pls junk Fortnite, PUBG and any number of mindlessly stupid FPSes. For the sake of humanity, pls play something which mentally enhances your IQ while you play it. Like an RvR open PvP mmo which is tab target. For god’s sake don’t touch that heap of junk gw2 or yuck WoW or omg vomit New World etc etc. In fact, all the top tier mmos are crap now.