As a developer, what are some of the most impactful problems you or your peers face? These could be technical or non-technical, work-related or not.
Ask HN: As a developer, what are your biggest pain points?
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#2Thinking you are finished with a project, then taking on another project that's suddenly taking all of your time - while fixing bugs or making improvements to the previous one. Now you're suddenly under a lot of pressure.
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#3Writing bash scripts.
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#4Writing bash scripts.
Related: Reading bash scripts.
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#5Thinking you are finished with a project, then taking on another project that's suddenly taking all of your time - while fixing bugs or making improvements to the previous one. Now you're suddenly under a lot of pressure.
I hear that. I was once employed as the sole full time internal webapp developer for a local company with 600-ish employees to serve. Over time, more applications == more code == more bugs == more features/improvements == more "customers" to interact with... Being able to move that quickly was a lot of fun, but managing everything was challenging.
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#6Incomplete or missing requirements. When it isn't clear what you are trying to deliver, you introduce a whole host of problems to the project.
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#7Having a truly shared and portable dev environment
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#9The 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 colleagues or the internet? Relevant to a 50 person company? I suppose they wish it was....
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#10Users. :)