Addiction. From the endless edit-compile-test cycles. Dopamine circuits go completely berserk.
That's the the good stuff right there though.
Programmers’ emotions
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Re: Programmers’ emotions
#12I don't know if confusion should be considered an emotion. Depending on the situation you can be confused and feel fear, or you can be confused and be excited. Same applies to "silliness" and "hesitation".
I don't know if shell scripts should be considered a programming language.
What a snarky reply. Don't know if you get off on things like that, but I hope it increased your mood.
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#13Missing: frustration.
Also missing: blind fury I occasionally find myself feeling like this after frustration builds to a crescendo, and I've spent hours trying to get something to work that should have taken no time at all!
For the past 6 months or so I've asked myself if this is all so hard... because from looking at how long it takes me to do stuff and how often others fail at it, or the questions they ask me, it MUST BE HARD, because no one around me is all that good at it, and it takes us ALL way too long to do stuff that looks like it should be simple and easy.
I think that acknowledging that something is hard gives you some power over it. Like if we acknowledged that writing documentation was hard, maybe we would apply more resources to writing documentation.
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#14I think a highly conscientious developer might feel all these emotions. However, I am sure we have all worked with the developer that is absolutely shameless.
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#15I don't know if confusion should be considered an emotion. Depending on the situation you can be confused and feel fear, or you can be confused and be excited. Same applies to "silliness" and "hesitation".
You can be happy and feel fear, or be happy and excited.
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#16Imposter Syndrome: Not an emotion per se.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if shell scripts should be considered a programming language.
What a snarky reply. Don't know if you get off on things like that, but I hope it increased your mood.
Perhaps you can see a parallel to your comment? And I do get off on things like that, thank you!
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#18The sooner you realize that everyone on God's green earth is acting from an emotional place, the sooner that human interactions make sense.
How something makes people feel - or how they think doing something will make them feel - dictates the vast majority of human behavior.
Re: Programmers’ emotions
#19I don't know if confusion should be considered an emotion. Depending on the situation you can be confused and feel fear, or you can be confused and be excited. Same applies to "silliness" and "hesitation".
You can be happy and feel fear, or be happy and excited.
Well, happy and excited seems to be almost the same thing. While happy and fear - I don't think I ever felt that way in my life.
I wanted to see more about this distinction and found a relevant Wiki page about emotions [1].
"Confusion" appears to be added as a separate emotion in some classifications, while missing from others. When it's added it is added as a neutral emotion (having 0 emotional "tone").
Personally, don't think I experience confusion as an emotion. It's just a mental picture of my state and emotions arise according to how I interpret that picture. Same as "I am lost" or "I am missing a finger" are not emotions, thou they would cause emotions to arise.