iVimto
Liza DalyI’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems
Chris [list of emoji]I feel called out.
Ed Summers
reallyJim
maloki 🍍
@liza is this adhd programming? 🤔
EndlessMason
Scott Wright 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@liza I feel so relieved when someone with obvious skill and accomplishments admits, even jokingly, to things I frequently encounter.
Catherine Berry@jswright61 , one of the greatest gifts we can give each other is normalizing our weaknesses.
↑ TIM@liza same, and there is no third type
ranjit
Eric Hellman@liza I'm good at both fixing bugs that aren't there, and replacing bugs with more devious ones.
Essjay 🏳️🌈 
Michael Sliwinski
Curt Clifton
John Fleck@liza I feel like this generalizes across such a vast array of my things.
Tito Ciuro@liza I think all Sr. Engineers would agree with you. 🙋🏻♂️
British Tech Guru@liza Me too! Especially when a robot project calls for parts I need that are likely only available from China.
AL
GTMLosAngeles@liza processing information incorrectly and designing an unusable interface.
Josh Grant@liza I'm in this post and don't like it ;)
jimgeo✅@liza somebody needs to do exactly the thing and nobody has done it perfectly right before
Dally Ogami@liza hear! hear!
Advanced Persistent Teapot@liza I mastered the third type: solving the wrong problem
Joseph Gaeddert@liza it’s true, there are only those two kinds 😬
Tom Forsyth@liza "We choose to do these things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy" - JFK&R.
Dan Lovejoy@liza But can you overestimate the time required to complete the tasks?
Lauren Oldja@liza I love this for us
Jessamyn Smith@liza harsh, lol. Common but I hope not the only two kinds of programming.
Ali Alkhatib@liza how are you at "taking a satisfactory status quo and utterly ruining it with brittle tech garbage"?
Darren@liza perfect, that reminds me of the quote, I think from Djikstra:
“there are two ways to program. Make it so simple. there is obviously nothing wrong, or so complicated that there’s nothing obviously wrong.”
Aral Balkan@liza I feel seen.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@liza Okay sure that's cool but what about skillfully and efficiently coming up with a solution to what you belatedly realize is a different problem than the one you actually were tasked with?
Rick@liza , I save a step by underestimating how complicated I can make a simple problem.
Ciro Durán 🎏
Marco 🦝 
@liza welcome to the team.
Caracabe@liza I’m skilled in both, but overcomplexification comes more easily.
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)@liza Isn’t every programmer?
LaPingvino 🟙 
@liza ouch that hurts
Steven Savage@liza ooh! Can I be your project manager so I can oversimplify the simple and complicate the complex?
Allan Chow@liza "this should have been done in excel."
Zeynep@liza omg, same here, too. Thanks for enlightening me😂😂
more jest than warrior (débil, enfermizo)@liza
This is such a good post.
This is such a good post.
Olof-Knight
tomG@liza lol... Did both today. This is so relateable.
Romain Delamare@liza so say we all!
Rabbit Cohen@liza The full package.
Naketa Ren Thigpen@liza That’s what I call an #AnalyticalCreative Welcome to the club 😊♾️💜💋
James Britt@liza This is the path to enlightenment.
Uncle X@liza that covers 100% of my work.
Tomas Ekeli@liza i've finally progressed to underestimating simple things and overcomplicating even the most complex of problems
Pxtl@liza I'm in this toot and I don't like it
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@liza As long as the project has a reasonable mix of both your overall estimate will come out about right. 🤣
kolya@liza This is so common among programmers that it sometimes gives me impostor syndrome, because I'm not like that at all.