Jeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023
The Programmers' Credo, via the ineffable pinboard, Maciej Ceglowsi. Yes I had this bronzed myself. Twice, one for me, one for him. And we deserve every bit of it! 😉
Show threadJeff Atwood

I was thinking of this when revisiting a particular blog post: https://blog.codinghorror.com/doing-terrible-things-to-your-code/

or as Steve Yegge once said, "shit's easy syndrome."

Doing Terrible Things To Your Code

In 1992, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. In my defense, I had just graduated from college, this was pre-Internet, and I lived in Boulder, Colorado working in small business jobs where I was lucky to even hear about other programmers much less meet them. I

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Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023
In my defense, I thought this would be easier.
Show threadBillAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror Wherein I am quoted. My one, singular claim to fame, that tweet.
Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023
@Sempf it's a great fucking tweet! 🎉
Show threadBillAug 29, 2023

@codinghorror I copied it here, somewhere.

Oh, here it is:

https://infosec.exchange/@Sempf/109373694338815636

Bill (@[email protected])

QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv.

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Show threadArmin HanischAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror I regularly refer people to your blog post, lots of them teachers who are lecturing kids. Just to show them that „coding“ or „informatics“ at school has only a very small intersection with software development.
Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023
@Linkshaender 🙇
Show threadBernd HerdAug 29, 2023
@Linkshaender @codinghorror I use to think: If this would be easy, they wouldn't need me to do it...
Show threadKiwicmcAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror the first professional programmer I met ( as part of a joint industry final year university project) taught me that taking amphetamines to code through the night and marijuana to take the edge off would meet a project deadline but at the end produce shitty code…
Show threadKiwicmcAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror QA people however have been uniformly awesome. From the QA director who faced down the VP of engineering to prevent a bad release, to Sinead who psyched up all the programmers to test throughly so “they wouldn’t let her down”.. I always tell my staff, love your QA because they’ll stop you looking like an idiot at some point