tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post7215149265995043422..comments2024-02-27T10:53:04.581+01:00Comments on paperpools: on not being hatedHelen DeWitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-11308339488507809982017-03-06T18:46:45.837+00:002017-03-06T18:46:45.837+00:00You know, what actually drives me crazy the most i...You know, what actually drives me crazy the most in the software engineering world is the rampant BSing that happens. Management, claiming you're too "technical" to understand a particular business choice, will handwave their point through, and then brush you aside. Fellow engineers, thinking you're too dumb to understand their (questionable) reasons for picking this or that solution will handwave, and then brush you aside. You have to learn to pick your fights, which is a most irritating aspect of how one grows their career in this business.<br /><br />The choice of programming language, however, never really bothered me all that much, to be honest. But then I read this, and thought about it. Never really had a problem with either PHP or Javascript, the latter actually being my favorite language, but what would actually drive me crazy would be being asked to program in C++. Oh yes. You might as well go ahead and electrocute me with your office power supply instead. What I can do in less than 5 lines in JavaScript (storing stuff in a hash, for example) will take me at least 15 minutes in C++, and a lot of prayerful consulting of StackOverFlow.<br /> <br />(Sorry for deleted comment above: There seems to be no other way to edit...)Kwekuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05303657400288107376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-55090328720236353902017-03-06T18:43:34.539+00:002017-03-06T18:43:34.539+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Kwekuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05303657400288107376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-55756435551202571152017-03-05T16:36:54.450+00:002017-03-05T16:36:54.450+00:00Ah. Fond memories of having all of the clever ve...Ah. Fond memories of having all of the clever verb tenses I used in my writing (technical book) being changed to the present tense, so that non-english readers would not be confused. The dev editor of course did not understand what was being said, so I had to review every sentence in careful detail to tease out the cases where they had exactly reversed the meaning by changing the tense, and also every case where they had changed something that basically meant "you should consider doing X" to "you should always do X." Good times.<br /><br />Ted Lemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16951216043358903560noreply@blogger.com