Because I'm tired and feel like crap and can't really process all the consequences of it right now.
Re: Improvement to drafts (and posting, actually) I need to do
« Reply #45, on June 16th, 2012, 07:59 PM »
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Re: Improvement to drafts (and posting, actually) I need to do
« Reply #46, on June 16th, 2012, 08:23 PM »
I wish.
I've spent a couple of days trying to unwind, playing some games, I have even briefly attempted to write some code but ended up spending an evening railing at a stupid problem caused by a stupid library having a stupid undocumented hidden internal limit that when exceeded causes a stupid error that seemingly has nothing to do with the call that is made.
This is a lot of what frustrates me about computer programming. It's all deterministic which means that I should be able to make a change and understand the consequences of that change in the places it affects. Except increasingly I'm finding that changing one thing breaks things that seemed to be unrelated, and it's frustrating me that I can't keep up with it. I didn't get into programming to play whack-a-mole.
I would also note that recently I've spent some time re-evaluating why I got into programming, and the otherwise simply joy of making things isn't there so much these days; I remember when I could make something in an afternoon and it would work. These days I can't build anything in under two days and spend even longer fighting with it.
I've spent a couple of days trying to unwind, playing some games, I have even briefly attempted to write some code but ended up spending an evening railing at a stupid problem caused by a stupid library having a stupid undocumented hidden internal limit that when exceeded causes a stupid error that seemingly has nothing to do with the call that is made.
This is a lot of what frustrates me about computer programming. It's all deterministic which means that I should be able to make a change and understand the consequences of that change in the places it affects. Except increasingly I'm finding that changing one thing breaks things that seemed to be unrelated, and it's frustrating me that I can't keep up with it. I didn't get into programming to play whack-a-mole.
I would also note that recently I've spent some time re-evaluating why I got into programming, and the otherwise simply joy of making things isn't there so much these days; I remember when I could make something in an afternoon and it would work. These days I can't build anything in under two days and spend even longer fighting with it.
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Re: Improvement to drafts (and posting, actually) I need to do
« Reply #47, on June 16th, 2012, 10:59 PM »
The development in computers go faster and faster. Just trying to keep up with all new things in programming languages,, the way things are programmed, new stuff in operating systems, databases etc takes a lot of time.
Further more are programs more complicated as they used to be, Simply because people expect more fancy stuff, possibilities, speed etc.
All this makes programming timeconsuming and challenging but can also lead to frustration.
I think that excepting that your human and that you just can't shake code out of your sleeve at a great rate would give you some peace of mind.
I mean well so I hope your not offended by this post.
Further more are programs more complicated as they used to be, Simply because people expect more fancy stuff, possibilities, speed etc.
All this makes programming timeconsuming and challenging but can also lead to frustration.
I think that excepting that your human and that you just can't shake code out of your sleeve at a great rate would give you some peace of mind.
I mean well so I hope your not offended by this post.
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Re: Improvement to drafts (and posting, actually) I need to do
« Reply #48, on June 16th, 2012, 11:05 PM »
I'm not offended at all :)
On the contrary, I think it's great that people are beginning to understand that - Nao and I sometimes make coding look easy but it really isn't, and I do think people forget just how much we've done in order to be where we are, e.g. how much time we've spent learning the language and then the specific implementation.
On the contrary, I think it's great that people are beginning to understand that - Nao and I sometimes make coding look easy but it really isn't, and I do think people forget just how much we've done in order to be where we are, e.g. how much time we've spent learning the language and then the specific implementation.
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