This is nonsense. Anyone who knows anything about developing on the web should know that W3 Validation means nothing. It's not even something worth striving for. They are not analogous to actual programming errors.
Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)
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Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)
#12I love programming when it is for myself or something I am passionate about. However writing CRUD apps or other mundane LOB apps is pretty mind numbing after a while. I don't regret leaving programming as my job but I could never give it up fully. I love it too much. The best bit about doing it just for myself is I can use what I want, this makes all the difference to my enjoyment. If I had to write everything in Java I don't think I would enjoy it quite as much ;)
Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)
#13Programming is nothing but transforming data from one form into another.
Once you reach a level of competency where like the author of this article you can implement any kind of transform you like then 99% of programming becomes rather boring.
Sure there are still the 1% of interesting problems and algorithms that are fun to work on, but you can only implement so many basic CRUD API's, and boilerplate business logic classes, and cut and paste website designs before you tire of that stuff.
After 30+ years of coding I'm sure the author of this article has implemented pretty much everything she has ever wanted to. It's natural that she would find implementing the same things over and over again for other people to be unrewarding, and instead desire to pursue the new challenge of designing an interesting new product of her own.
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#14"...consistently one of my top ten web hits, partly because of strong Google ranking." Wonder what the other part is, because the article is garbage.
Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)
#15This is nonsense. Anyone who knows anything about developing on the web should know that W3 Validation means nothing. It's not even something worth striving for. They are not analogous to actual programming errors.
Not sure that they realized that the Internets motto is "good enough for jazz" as opposed to proper OSI internet standards :-)
Even then OSI had It's "kids on the variety sunshine coach" members who couldn't implement to standard I am looking at you Sprint and ICL.
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#16"About the Author" "Deirdre Saoirse Moen is a science fiction and fantasy writer, photographer, and graphic designer from Menlo Park, California." What? I thought this was a programmer quitting his job..
Did so in the past, and therefore not a programmer anymore.
Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)
#17"About the Author" "Deirdre Saoirse Moen is a science fiction and fantasy writer, photographer, and graphic designer from Menlo Park, California." What? I thought this was a programmer quitting his job..
Not his job, but I guess his career choice.
Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)
#18> Instead, I need to pick projects that I care about and not spend long stretches of time on things I don’t.
I'm getting this feeling myself more and more lately. And I've only been doing this for a little over 5 years. Although, I wonder if I'll have this thought regardless of what field I am working in.
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#19I got the "...back in my day, everything was all neat and tidy...now it's all gone to shit..." sort of feeling while reading this article. Websites have always been shit, and if you approach rendering/parsing/consuming web content programmatically and expect perfection...you're in for a frustrating experience.
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#20Author claims to have been working for 38 years. They're not quitting, they're retiring. What a silly article.
So, after a law professor retires s/he immediately stops thinking about law?