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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty interesting post. I think it's very insightful, especially coming from a person who does not program professionally.

Corporations do suck the joy out of programming, to a very great extent. Dealing with testers, project managers, etc. just really stinks.

Code review sucks; it's like, not only do you have to do this, you have to get an oral exam about it from Sheldon Fucking Cooper afterwards.

Automated testing sucks. OOP sucks badly. C# sucks... or at least the tooling used for it sucks. Java sucks in a profound way. Agile sucks giant donkey dicks... muh sprint retros LOL. NPM sucks off hobos behind an overflowing dumpster.

"Zero math" is indeed bullshit; I had not heard anyone make that claim, and I think whoever said that is a total fucking moron. Math is not just algebra and calculus; that's just one subset of math called analysis, and it's taught at a more elementary level than computer science is because it's more immediately accessible to children.

I wish I had stayed a hobbyist, or just moved into management sooner. Managing programmers is not an awful job; you're kind of like that chick from House Bunny, just trying to keep profoundly autistic people from destroying themselves and their careers, often over obscure architectural disputes that absolutely no one else cares about.