Fuck computer programming as a career

Fair enough -- I absolutely sympathize with that! But I'm sure you'll agree that for the majority of new businesses, they most often fall through the cracks for that reason...

Im a programmer for 15 years, everybody wanted cheaper software so i hired 10 paki's to do all the work. They do a great job and are good people. When my boss asks what got done this week, i tell him 40 hours worth or work.

Im a programmer for 15 years, everybody wanted cheaper software so i hired 10 paki's to do all the work. They do a great job and are good people. When my boss asks what got done this week, i tell him 40 hours worth or work.

lol. pretty much. and they always seem surprised when the producitivity drops like that.

Create a mobile app?

You might not believe this, but I don't even own a smartphone. As a programmer, I absolutely loathe touchscreens. Give me a full keyboard to interface with a computer or its just too damn slow and inefficient for me to bother with. I live with a simple dial and call phone and I often times turn it off.

They claim they want it faster and cheaper, they just want it bloated and slower so hardware sales will go up.

Imagine the speed we could have today if we optimized to the 80 and 90s standards when hardware was uber weak.

Im a programmer for 15 years, everybody wanted cheaper software so i hired 10 paki's to do all the work. They do a great job and are good people. When my boss asks what got done this week, i tell him 40 hours worth or work.

They claim they want it faster and cheaper, they just want it bloated and slower so hardware sales will go up.

Imagine the speed we could have today if we optimized to the 80 and 90s standards when hardware was uber weak.

And I'm not the only one. I have found the age of the programmer is inversely proportional to the likelihood of them having a smartphone.

I think it's to do with by the fact you've programmed a computer for 10 years or more, simply using a computer becomes somewhat grating. I make an exception for GLP but that's about it actually. Other than GLP and the occasional web browsing, I never use a computer unless I'm programming. It just seems like work.

I don't have a cell phone at all. Never tweeted in my life. Never texted someone. No facebook. Don't get cable TV. prefer Vinyl for music. My wife has an Obama phone though. He gave us a phone - He gonna do more. Exactly what, worries me though.

You might not believe this, but I don't even own a smartphone. As a programmer, I absolutely loathe touchscreens. Give me a full keyboard to interface with a computer or its just too damn slow and inefficient for me to bother with. I live with a simple dial and call phone and I often times turn it off.

Often it's like the first. Modern sofware design methodologies are designed to allow management to treat the coders like robots and to measure their performance in detail. Naturally every programmer is treated like an Indian contract programmer now. They don't care who writes their code.

It's good to get a job where you can't be outsourced. But you have to be sneaky to get them.

I hate programming.

It's so boring...

Dead on, dead on. MS needs to open up it's operating structure. Also most of the software is just that bloatware. I reinstalled my Windows 7 64bit on my harddrive because MS updates messed up my BIOS (around the same time Windows 8 was being pushed). So I did what a person helping me from dell told me personally that you don't need MS updates for the operating system, it will work fine. I haven't had trouble for at least 7 months and he told me that it's real easy for MS to put stuff in the update to mess up your system and make you get the next version of the software.

Turn MS updates off. Also I'm surprised that you are still working as an American (assuming) programmer with so much of that business being offshored.

WRONG kind of ppl in "management" - not technical, not even educated. most fake their education and credentials. they're just clusterfucks in private industry. It's not the programming thats bad, its the "management"

A lot of managers didn't get to where they are because of skill or experience.
I cannot even tell you how many I have met the have NO EFFING CLUE WTF they were doing.

They got there purely because of who they knew....or blew. (literally in a few cases)

Great concept, be the middleman yourself. But aren't there a lot of interface and security issues?

I work for a major company and the biggest annoyance I've been dealing with lately is all the red tape and restrictions they put up.

If you transfer too much data from a server to your laptop then they kill the transfer. - I just got a new laptop and trying to get my software from the share..

Then I go to install it and get denied saying i'm not allowed to run that EXE - so I have to submit a ticket for each app I'm trying to install.

It's BS like that that makes me hate the job more than anything. The job is rough enough but when you're trying to do it with one hand tied behind your back while being zapped with a cattle prod, it really really really sucks.

It's like you know if you want me to get paid to sit here and do nothing I'm totally fine with that.

I'm sick and tired of it. I've been programming now for well over a decade and I simply can not write another god damned line of code. It's the same shit over and over again. Make it faster, make it cheaper, make it faster, make it cheaper is all you fucking hear at work and all you see in job postings.

Why in the fuck does any of it matter? Let's run on a treadmill our entire lives so people can have a fucking faster smartphone. Fuck them.

Let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars so algorithms can trade a few microseconds faster. Fuck it.

Let's waste countless man years so the corners of windows are curved and semi-transparent because that shit really matters. Fuck it all.

Let's rewrite the same website infrastrucure in a the latest fad language every couple of years so we all can pretend to be busy bees. Fuck that.

Is there any way out of this treadmill of a life? I highly doubt it. Mankind won't stop in this path to exponential insanity until we are left with nothing but a smouldering pile of ruins we once called civilization.

People can barely keep up with their workload at the office and all the chores at home yet every day you get to work and it's MOAR MOAR MOAR.

And you know what? It's the 0.1% at the top that are *demanding* that every single thing below them cut costs, increase efficiency all so they can see a little MOAR money that they did the month before. Can they even spend the money they make? No, but they still need MOAR and it will come out of your SOUL!