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Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)

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Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)

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Post by mcv »

outworlder wrote: post #27
blisterpeanuts wrote: post #9

First world problems :) I'm grateful for the opportunity to work from home, support my family comfortably, be in a field with lots of employment opportunities to fall back on, and be constantly learning new stuff. Sorry it didn't work out for you, but it sounds like you found other interests to occupy you and (hopefully) support you, e.g. fantasy/scifi writing.

> Sorry it didn't work out for you What? The author was in the field for THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS!

38 years should be enough to deserve some retirement.

Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)

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Post by mcv »

jeremiep wrote: post #10

"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..

"His"? I think it's a programmer who quit her job.

Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)

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Post by outworlder »

ebbv wrote: post #11

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.

I think many comments like this are missing the point. You don't get a "Haskell/C/Java/Lisp validator". You have a compiler, which will flag obvious crap as crap. The possibly crap stuff are flagged as warnings. And then you have a linter when you want your crap to smell slightly better. But the point is that obviously wrong stuff on the web should give you errors, not a vaguely working page, sometimes, in some browser version.

Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)

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Post by dahart »

Wow, I thought I was critical, but there's some serious negativity going down here.

Maybe the article is a little scattered, but the tl;dr is Deirdre switched to programming for herself, and quit making crap other people want. For those reacting to the title without reading the article, she clarified that programming is awesome, but programming for money on other peoples terms sucks.

I don't know about you guys, maybe you're too young, but it resonates with me. Maybe I would have wasted fewer years programming for others earlier in my life if I'd known how bummed I'd get about it, or how excited I'd get about programming on my own terms.

Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)

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Post by SlashmanX »

jevgeni wrote: post #28
irishcoffee wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what point you think you're making. When someone takes an action, do they immediately stop thinking about the topic of that action? Did you read the article?

Did you? He's not talking about quitting his job, but his (former) passion. That's not retiring.

Deirdre is a woman

Re: Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)

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Post by repomies691 »

dahart wrote: post #35

Wow, I thought I was critical, but there's some serious negativity going down here. Maybe the article is a little scattered, but the tl;dr is Deirdre switched to programming for herself, and quit making crap other people want. For those reacting to the title without reading the article, she clarified that programming is awesome, but programming for money on other peoples terms sucks. I don't know about you guys, mayb…

I think it is with everyone the same.
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