life of a software engineer

Started by Thorin, July 13, 2013, 03:34:58 PM

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Thorin

I think all of us on here that have written code have had to deal with an unknown bunch of unknowns before.

It's only greenfield development in the first ten minutes of writing code; after that it all becomes maintenance programming.
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gcc thorin.c -pedantic -o Thorin
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Tom

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Quote from: Thorin on August 04, 2013, 06:57:09 PM
I think all of us on here that have written code have had to deal with an unknown bunch of unknowns before.

It's only greenfield development in the first ten minutes of writing code; after that it all becomes maintenance programming.
Especially when the requirements change every week/day/hour.
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Darren Dirt

Quote from: Tom on August 04, 2013, 07:15:46 PM
Quote from: Thorin on August 04, 2013, 06:57:09 PM
I think all of us on here that have written code have had to deal with an unknown bunch of unknowns before.

It's only greenfield development in the first ten minutes of writing code; after that it all becomes maintenance programming.
Especially when the requirements change every week/day.

Weird way you spelled 'hour'.  ;)
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Tom

Quote from: Darren Dirt on August 04, 2013, 07:57:37 PM
Quote from: Tom on August 04, 2013, 07:15:46 PM
Quote from: Thorin on August 04, 2013, 06:57:09 PM
I think all of us on here that have written code have had to deal with an unknown bunch of unknowns before.

It's only greenfield development in the first ten minutes of writing code; after that it all becomes maintenance programming.
Especially when the requirements change every week/day.

Weird way you spelled 'hour'.  ;)
I'm not sure what you're talking about. ;)
<Zapata Prime> I smell Stanley... And he smells good!!!

Darren Dirt

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/28-things-only-developers-will-find-funny
#4 = could be a warning to women what they're getting into a relationship with...



unrelated link that I think is pretty fascinating:
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