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Something to cultivate anyway.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I dunno... hope I'm not going out on a limb by saying that.
/ravi
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You'll be fine, no need to start packing the trunk.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So it's after midnight and the boy and I are up getting pissed and watching Patron SomeoneOrOther on Netflix. Time goes by and we're referencing sh*t from all over the place cause Life Of Brian was on TV earlier.
He starts searching for something using Siri and it f***s up. I reference something from Delirious and then we're off.
It's now 25 minutes later and the best I have is Siri not understanding 'Is Luther Vandross a big Tuckey eating motherf*****'.
Apple sucks all kinds of arse, and that may have something to do with wasting hours getting data from an iPhone 4 to 6 using iTunes earlier today.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Quote: Is Luther Vandross a big Tuckey eating mother******'.
That's because it doesn't understand "Tuckey". Is this some kind of Australian slang? I know "tucker" means food...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: That's because it doesn't understand "Tuckey". Is this some kind of Australian slang? I know "tucker" means food...
No. It's meant to be 'A big Kentucky Fried eating motherf*****'. Many tries later, I stop laughing enough to get Siri to understand.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I enjoy only one work in the past when I volunteer for MSF. I am not doctor but did other support work. I see lot of heartbreaking things what people do to others, but still I feel I am helping, but even in a small way.
Now I am programmer and everyone argue about deadline and feature and where to put parentheses and a lot of things make them look like the imbeciles. Every day I like work less and less. There is more things to do because the meaningless fixes they take time. Are lot of programmers behave like a**hole, or only my company is different? I think I make the wrong choise.
Do everyone have to work like this? Is big company better? Is it no difference the size but intelligent people treat others better?
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If you don't like your employer or not happy, then you should look for another job. Not everyone fits in with the culture of the organization.
If you don't like coding or reading about programming in general, then you should look for a career that would be more enjoyable to you.
Personally, I am not very happy in my current position, but I enjoy coding.
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Welcome to the real world. Learn what really matters to you and ignore the rest.
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That's just people.
Some are good, some are average, some are a-holes. Doesn't matter how intelligent they are; what they do for a living; how rich, how poor; how old, how young; how white, how black; how male, how female.
A-holes are a-holes. Sometimes they grow out of it (and sometimes they grow into it).
Development probably has the same proportion of them as any other profession (except estate agency, recruiting, and politics). They just show up more to you because you work closely with them.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What I see is different
Some professions have people with similar character like politicians are extrovert and programmers are introverts. Maybe not all but more are like that
I think people in medical profession care more about other people
Programmer care less it looks like that, but I don't know, I only see small number.
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That's too small a sample. I've known some very extrovert developers!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Member 12345678 wrote: think people in medical profession care more about other people
I don't know about that. For the most part, they're making money off of other people's misfortunes. Don't judge the medical profession by those that go and give of themselves as volunteers. The majority will send you a bill because they held their hand to your forehead and told you to taken an aspirin.
You're not face to face with them, but you will notice here on CP that introverts are not particularly common. With or without their gin.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: you will notice here on CP that introverts are not particularly common
Yes, Neddie. We only accept introverts with a good pedigree.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Member 12345678 wrote: I think I make the wrong choise
Yup I do believe you are correct, if you find details of gathering user requirements tedious then I suggest you change careers. PLEASE!!!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's more about the firm than the job. Places where it's lousy to be a developer are generally places where it's lousy to be anything.
I've had bad experiences of small firms (especially family ones) and equally, you can feel a bit lost in too big a place. I generally prefer medium side places but it's the luck of the draw with all of them.
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No. How people treat other people has nothing to do with intelligence.
It's got to do with manners and sensitivity. In fact I think that a lot of intelligent people lack those virtues.
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You are just asking for getting 'Sheldoned' a little. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Well, it's not that different from what you wrote in your reply below 
[Edit]: I just saw that it wasn't your reply. Sorry for the confusion!
btw, I don't know what "Sheldoned" means, as I don't watch "The Big Bang Theory"...
...oops, now I blew it...
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You must be very sensitive.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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You caught me again 
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Someone supposedly intelligent and insensitive.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I've worked for startups... I've worked for big firms. They were all in the financial sector, though.
In my experience, there isn't much of a correlation between user intelligence and good treatment of us geeks. Some users are easy to work with, and some are just a constant pain in the #%*#@$. That's humanity... Good apples and bad apples.
And when it comes to dealing with other programmers... Same thing. Good ones and bad ones, wherever you go.
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Then I think I am unlucky, I have more of the bad apples.
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