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What kills your productivity the most?

Survey period: 11 Dec 2017 to 18 Dec 2017

Sometimes things hum along. Sometimes...they don't.

Option	Votes	%
The programming tools breaking or misbehaving	279	29.09
The libraries lacking features, being difficult to use, or having bugs	221	23.04
Nuget or NPM updates introducing breaking changes	102	10.64
My development machine (slow or broken)	199	20.75
Your boss or client changing their mind	502	52.35
The work environment	327	34.10
My team. They are hard work	97	10.11
We're using the wrong tools / language / stack / whatever	121	12.62
Other	197	20.54
Responses	959
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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Re: Windows Updates destroying my development computer Kevin McFarlane12-Dec-17 0:34 Kevin McFarlane 12-Dec-17 0:34  Johnny J. wrote: Took the best part of an hour. That quick? Kevin Re: Windows Updates destroying my development computer ScottM112-Dec-17 0:57 ScottM1 12-Dec-17 0:57  Windows 10 is sh*t. The next clean install that I do will be Windows 8.1. Re: Windows Updates destroying my development computer NotUnique12-Dec-17 12:21 NotUnique 12-Dec-17 12:21  I have connections. My newest machines are running legal copies of Windows 7 and I got a new one last month... could not be happier! It runs so fast! Currently Option 5 is at 27% Thanks787210-Dec-17 20:57 Thanks7872 10-Dec-17 20:57  Keep it up guys. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning Re: Currently Option 5 is at 27% Sammuel Miranda10-Dec-17 23:54 Sammuel Miranda 10-Dec-17 23:54  Your catch frase was beautiful. Yes! The universe is winning... lol Other Jochen Arndt10-Dec-17 20:53 Jochen Arndt 10-Dec-17 20:53  Besides mind changings and a slow (rather old) system: People talking loud or phoning on the floor in the front of my office. The door is usually open all the times but if it becomes too annoying I close it. Other: People, and the cat OriginalGriff10-Dec-17 20:06 OriginalGriff 10-Dec-17 20:06  People: They phone, they knock on the door, they shout obscenities at the TV ... Cat: He sits on my keyboard, demands to be let in the front door (his cat flap is round the back), wants to be dried, sits on my computer (made of warm) to dry himself, wants more food, wants me to turn the rain / snow off, ... Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower! Re: Other: People, and the cat Marc Clifton11-Dec-17 2:09 Marc Clifton 11-Dec-17 2:09  We have a baby gate to help contain the cats. Latest Article - Class-less Coding - Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802 Re: Other: People, and the cat OriginalGriff11-Dec-17 2:23 OriginalGriff 11-Dec-17 2:23  I'm reasonably certain ours can walk through walls, so a baby gate won't offer much resistance... Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower! Re: Other: People, and the cat Mohibur Rashid12-Dec-17 18:50 Mohibur Rashid 12-Dec-17 18:50  I don't understand, cat with far or without far? I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration. Manager Abhinav S10-Dec-17 19:17 Abhinav S 10-Dec-17 19:17  Anyone? Windows Store Apps - Sound Meter | Color Analyzer | Wallpaper Selector | Advertising Samples | World Cup Doodles Re: Manager KarstenK10-Dec-17 22:34 KarstenK 10-Dec-17 22:34  Managing the managers is part of the job. Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany Currently: Android Studio 3.0 Mike (Prof. Chuck)10-Dec-17 19:16 Mike (Prof. Chuck) 10-Dec-17 19:16  While we were happy when it finally released, I must say, there hasn't been a version before, that was so full of bugs. Currently I think most of the problems are related to building/gradle system and we alle hope that there will be fixes soon. Our work depends highly on in-house developed .aar libraries and the update of those libraries is a nightmare. "Byte code does not match the source code", broken/invalid caches, not even disabling the build cache helps. "Invalidate caches and restart" is done a dozen times a day, causing another 5-8 minutes waiting time during rebuild after reopening a project and in 4 out of 5 tries, it didn't even help. Unfortunately we can't step back to 2.3. At the moment our productivity is reduced by 30% or more just because of android studio 3.0... What immense costs that causes I do not need to tell... || You know nothing, Jon Snow. || My Android Label (mbar Software) on G+ || My Android Apps in Play Store

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