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You have those and the other side who believe they alone can force design patterns, naming conventions and architecture, going as far as renaming your variables behind your back in the versioning system, so the program won't work anymore. 
The entire team tried to talk to him to which he replied: "You don't understand what I'm doing..." 
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Set out on a "20 minute" train ride. Arrive 3 days later - crumpled, grubby, dazed, late and dispirited.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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As MS continuously brings out newer versions of Visual Studio, Windows, .Net, VB.net, C#.net, etc. in a greedy attempt to boost sales in a mature and relatively saturated market, they seem to have forgotten their power base programmers and developers that create the programs and applications then the end users actually buy. They seem to have forgotten that they make tools, not the programs and applications people actually want. Yes, I DO classify MS Office as a "tool".
Having to re-learn new language nuances, bugs and workarounds at an ever increasing pace takes up more time than the actual programming. 
And don't get me started on the abysmal quality of the Help documentation. 
Someone needs to explain to MS that "Planned Obsolescence" is the thing that nearly broke American carmakers and Detroit in the 70's, and is a very bad idea.
Happy to be near the end of my career....
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we still use vs2008 (and nothing later)
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I am sticking with VS2015 myself....
While I deplore men sexually harassing women, I am quite in favor of hot young girls sexually harassing me....
Old men need love too...
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VS6...
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I developed software to run inside AutoCAD, and interface with a half-dozen other company's programs files. From 2000 to about 2010 we could keep up... add a couple of features every year, upgrade the IDE every three years, add connections to new features in the interface programs. I spent as much time working around "that feature has been deprecated" or a shift from ASCII to Wide Character as I did actually writing the software. Then it got crazy... My last disk had ten different installs for ten different configurations of OS/AutoCAD Version with 64-bit version versus 32-bit. With the documentation we offered and the straightforward interface we never got calls about the software itself, just the installation for all the possible configurations. I still have a client running Windows 2000 and I've never been asked if there is a Windows 10 version.
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You don't have to pay for them, just use the community edition. And if your biggest gripe is that it makes you learn newer techniques, then I'm wondering if you really are suited for a programming position at all?
Nevermind the guy who struggled to implement ASCII->"Wide character" taking almost as long as the entire project to convert it.
Seems like you "programmers" these days have an inability to adapt from what you were taught and tend to bitch about a tool or a library not giving you what you want / making it difficult than just doing your fcking job? wow
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Member 13079230 wrote: And if your biggest gripe is that it makes you learn newer techniques
Newer is not "better", it's just different. I have been successfully "learning new techniques" and programming for a living for over 35 years. I wonder if you will last in the profession that long? I'll bet you're one of those guys who is working on creating a "new" language/tool/library right now.
The survey was about what kills my productivity the most. Your inability to understand my answer makes me question your communication skills and future as a programmer/developer/new hip term you consider yourself to be.
Do you work for Microsoft, or (shudder) Apple?
Those that focus on Edge cases (the Bleeding Edge) hardly ever get any meaningful work done....
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Ed Aymami wrote: programmer/developer/new hip term
How about 'apper'? We could also invent a verb. To app something, like 'I have already apped that problem'. 
Ed Aymami wrote: for a living for over 35 years
And then Member_99999999 comes along and finally tells you how it's done.
Ed Aymami wrote: Do you work for Microsoft, or (shudder) Apple?
Don't be cruel and destroy all his illusions at once.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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"Apper" is a handy name... but also <Carriage Return>apper.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ed Aymami wrote: a greedy attempt to boost sales
Greedy? Microsoft employs thousands of people and needs to *pay* them. A company is supposed to make money, that's how economies work.
What if your boss were to call you greedy for wanting a performance review and a raise?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Wasteful meetings that could be handled through a quick discussion or email, that sort of thing. It's not just the time of the meeting itself, it's the spin-down and spin-up time around the meeting.
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Engineers are NOT good writers. Period.
Usually the problem is lack of documentation; it simply isn't there.
When it is, it is frequently very poorly organized, as seen from a user's point of view:
Sometimes so 'structured' in an over-academic sense that until you have all the developer's abstractions into your head, it is impossible to guess where the concrete detail is found.
Sometimes, the engineer spends lots of time & space on explaining the last, super-fancy features, skipping everything about the fundamental mechanisms.
Sometimes, the documentation writer comes from some other environment, assuming that all readers share the same background so he can limit himself to the changes, say from Windows Forms to WPF.
Or, a printed book of 870 pages, neatly organized into 17 well defined chapter subjects - yet the author takes for granted that when you look up something on page 672, you have understood and memorized every single detail in the preceeding 671 pages.
Or, for online documentation, you are in a maze of twisting little passages, all alike, following links from the API to the class of the argument to the constructor to the class of the constructor alternativ list to a specific constructor to the enum definition to ...
Of course there are search functions. But we have had years of "my hit list is bigger than your hit list", so while fourteen million hits is bound to give a recall of very close to 100%, the precision is a small fraction of a percent. Actually, filtering functions were better ten years ago than they are today, but hit lists are magnitudes larger.
As long as you work only with a limited set high-fashion tools that you see in every project every day, and you need not know how things work, only how to invoke them, you can learn by heart most that you need. The problem lies in those things you use rarely, and neither time nor money allows you to go to a two week training course, yet you need to undertand it thoroughly. Then you may spend so much time with books and online searching that you may end up thinking that the two week training course might have been a good idea anyway, because documentation by itself is useless...
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I had a bad experience of build breaking my web app, while I was migrating my ASP.NET Core 1.1 based web app to a newer experience, with ASP.NET Core 2.0 app.
Those 2 days and 1 night were tough for me. So, yes, I can cope with quite everything but with a tool that itself is breaking the build. That. Is. Painful.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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'Incomplete requirements' are great productivity killers.
Associated with the missing details that comes with a dropper, you can end up solving the same problem 5 or more times. And as we are lucky, each missing detail makes the previous solution unusable.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Then again, I remember an old story, I believe it was published in Datamation:
The writer's company had been rewarded a US Defence contract, and he was assigned the task of identifying every explicit requirement in the contract text. This is long ago, so he copied each individual requirement to a 4-by-6 card so they could be ordered and grouped freely. When almost half the contract period had expired and he told the project mananger for the third time that he needed another supply of cards, and a second box to hold them, the project manager broke off that activity: What we haven't discovered yet, they won't detect as not fullfilled!
They did complete the project in time. At the review meetings nearing the end of the project, the Defence people did point out a few details the implementors had overlooked, and they came in place. But according to the storyteller, several points that were indicated in the requirements as essential was never implmented, and noone had ever asked for them later.
Also, when I was a student, one of our books in systems engineering had a list of "Things that may delay your project". The list contained both "The customer in inexperienced with data processing" and "The customer is experienced with data processing". I guess that US Defence story is an example of the latter.
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Why not just block his number and call him on the drive home?
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Even better... block his (OP) number in his (brother-in-law) phone  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Grow to stuff between the legs and put him in his place. Stop being a people pleaser. No calls while you're at work. This is a boundary I had to put up for my wife. Worst thing is when you're in a meeting and have an audience and you're busy talking to the audience and you feel your phone vibrating in you're pocket.
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So....grow a pair and tell him to stop calling.
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The wrong tool for every job.
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Boring people, unproductive regulation and rules.
I need bleaching for those to br cleaned.
Scott from Maine
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The honest truth is that he is bored and has no friends. 
I can't begin to imagine how many hours I've wasted on the phone listening to the droning about doctor's visits, kids, and grand-kids...mixed in with much self-aggrandizing and/or complaining. 
