Not being disturbed. Being able to stay focused.
Ask HN: As a developer, what are your biggest pain points?
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#12Finding enough time for coding (which is great fun).
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#14The fact that interviewing for software engineering jobs tests skills that are mostly unrelated to software engineering. Related: interviews that are SE relevant, but in no way apply to the job at hand. Example: I was asked by a 50 person company to “design the Twitter home page/feed for the world.” Relevant to SE, sort of... I mean, who designs massive distributed systems themselves without being able to consult col…
Might be worse? Yes, whiteboard coding questions.
Unbiased opinion, but this is a problem I really care and I'm trying to solve with https://type12.com
Re: Ask HN: As a developer, what are your biggest pain points?
#15The need to be stationary for 8 hours a day. standing desks help, but not enough. I plan to start doing yoga, which I think will help with this.
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#16Those times when you're not adding business value when developing features
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#17Working with other Developers.
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#18Not being disturbed. Being able to stay focused.
It greatly helped me to buy noise-cancellation headphones.
The newer Sony 1000mx3 are great...a bit pricey but have helped me so much in an open office environment.
Re: Ask HN: As a developer, what are your biggest pain points?
#19Not being disturbed. Being able to stay focused.
This. I've found a pair of 3M Peltor Optime III do a pretty good job at keeping people away while I'm working.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peltor-Optime-Earmuffs-Headband-Bla...
North American equivalent appears to be:
https://www.amazon.com/3M-Earmuff-Protectors-Hearing-Protect...
https://www.amazon.ca/3M-Peltor-Optime-Earmuffs-H10A/dp/B000...
Re: Ask HN: As a developer, what are your biggest pain points?
#20As a web developer, my biggest pain point was the never-ending pressure to get a project done by tomorrow with perfect no bug code.
Another was designers designing because it's "cool" and everyone else is doing it as opposed to designing for app function and helping the user get around the app easily. Some designers love eye candy that weighs the app down with useless features that are cool once but get in the way over time.
One that really comes to mind is bad SCRUM project management. The longer projects will always get spaghetti code when badly managed that will be a bear to maintain. It's not too bad for smaller projects but longer project the manager needs to be a master to divide the project into manageable parts that will deliver good code.