greatist annoyance...being a coder :)

[guest2013-1]

Biggest annoyance is Junior's thinking they know better than you with 10 odd years experience

That and idiotic clients

 

[Necuno]

Biggest annoyance is Junior's thinking they know better than you with 10 odd years experience

That and idiotic clients

there is worse.... Junior optimization on already perfectly working and tested code

 

[FarligOpptreden]

there is worse.... Junior optimization on already perfectly working and tested code

Nothing beats senior optimization though...

 

[Pyro]

Another annoyance - managers think who think that adding more people at the later stages of a project helps make deadlines

 

[PsyWulf]

The mythical man-month

 

[Bcm]

Another annoyance - managers think who think that adding more people at the later stages of a project helps make deadlines

A Project Manager is a person who thinks 9 women can make a baby in one month...

Another Bm quote

 

[Bcm]

The mythical man-month

What? That book rocks.

 

[Necuno]

The mythical man-month

or the mythical 1st of month x for due dates....

Nothing beats senior optimization though...

heh, just don't tax everything; it will have accounts in a spin

 

[deadman]

Major Annoyance: Working in a team with people thinking they can plan on-the-fly. Even one such person on the team can slow down the progress significantly.
People must learn to plan the project, divide the work and stick to their share of work.

 

[Gnome]

I think I get annoyed most when working in a team with programmers that lack experience in just plain old programming and debugging. It happens all the time when I work in groups, takes them hours to try figure out what is wrong, I pitch up, 5 minutes later using step through debugging I've found the problem.

Worst of all, when they finally learn how to use step through debugging, stack trace, etc. then they get a error, instead of Googling, they ask, How do I fix this error? "GOOGLE FFS". 1min later after Google, "Ooooohhh".

 

[Raithlin]

1min later after Google, "Ooooohhh".

Been there. Luckily (for me) I work with a team that is well versed in the Art of Google.

 

[FarligOpptreden]

What would us programmers do without Google?!

 

[guest2013-1]

What would us programmers do without Google?!

We'd actually have to work

 

[Necuno]

....getting motivated sometimes is hard even after few cups of coffee; its that one more method, that one more compile

 

[Pyro]

Mythical man-month was quite an interesting one. Don't think I ever finished reading it, but spotted it lying in my old room at the parent's place.

Really felt like just strategically leaving it on the boss' desk.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

What I hate (like this morning) is having to ask Junior where is his documentation on how he deployed some serious infrastructure. His reply was its a bug in MySQL and nothing to be concerned by as he was able to hack the database to get it working. What was the hack ... silence ... change of topic by junior ...

So I kinda guess my hate is the arrogance of juniors 10 yrs my junior (Hey I've only been in the industry for 3yrs but being coding since I was 9).

 

[guest2013-1]

What I hate (like this morning) is having to ask Junior where is his documentation on how he deployed some serious infrastructure. His reply was its a bug in MySQL and nothing to be concerned by as he was able to hack the database to get it working. What was the hack ... silence ... change of topic by junior ...

So I kinda guess my hate is the arrogance of juniors 10 yrs my junior (Hey I've only been in the industry for 3yrs but being coding since I was 9).

they should give us a ****ing medal I tell you

after I'm done with a junior he has hair on his teeth

whats awesome is how they answer simple questions:

Q: "What does the function do when you call it?"
A: "Flippydeeflapjacks Batman"
Q: "???!!!?!"
A: *scurries off to superior to moan at me for calling them morons

 

[Bcm]

they should give us a ****ing medal I tell you

after I'm done with a junior he has hair on his teeth

whats awesome is how they answer simple questions:

Q: "What does the function do when you call it?"
A: "Flippydeeflapjacks Batman"
Q: "???!!!?!"
A: *scurries off to superior to moan at me for calling them morons

I'm naming my first born: FlippydeeflapjacksBatman.

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

Ninety five percent of the analysts out there. They know as much as I do about the business behind the system, nothing about the code, less about design and yet they get paid twice as much as I do and most of the time expect me to do both their job and mine.

Part of the problem is that most analysts are just failed developers who are better suited to opening a corner cafe somewhere than being anywhere near IT.

Having said that good analysts are worth their weight in rare French truffle.

If I sound just a mite bitter, it's because I am.

 

[hyperian]

clients changing database schemas to allow nullable fields