"Programming Sucks"
"Programming Sucks"
www.stilldrinking.org
Programming Sucks
Don’t know how I’ve never come across this, but this made me laugh and cry and nod appreciatively.
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In about 2 weeks this will be 10 years old
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And I’m honestly astonished I’d never come across this before. This ranks up there with the story of Mel.
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Mel, a real programmer!
I'd add a motherfucking website. While not exactly a story, it's one of my favorite bits on the internets
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ERROR: Attempted to parse HTML with regular expression; system returned Cthulhu.
classic.
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I fucking love this post and reference it constantly to my programmer friends. It's one of my favorite bits of writing to exist, honestly.
For that matter, actually, pretty much everything Peter Welch writes is great. I highly recommend taking a peek through the rest of his blog. I liked it so much I bought one of his books.
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It is telling that I read the entire post feeling varying degrees of incredulity and despair, yet what really upset me was the missing
<rant>at the beginning.-
"This is so funny and painful!"
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@Mbourgon Thanks. This is soooo relieving for someone building real world things.
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Is this what burnout looks like?
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I wish
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Well... said?
My computer works better than that of others? I'm not so sure sometimes.
I just received an email from my home server saying that I have 8 sectors offline on my main storage Array.
I once told my father that people who work with computers run into problems all the time, it's just that the problems we have are at a different scale or degree from the problems someone like he experienced. He said that it soothed him to hear that.
Which is odd- I threaten mine, and that’s why it behaves.
opens htop threateningly