The most soul-destroying things about computing

From	2phar <none@example.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	The most soul-destroying things about computing
Date	2014-02-10 13:00 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ldb43s$5q3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I gotta say coding these days doesn't seem much fun a lot of the time 
compared to the old days.. dunno if others feel the same.

I think a lot of it has to do with working with so many opaque layers of 
libraries. There's nothing more grinding that trying to hack around some 
visual component you're stuck with that doesn't quite handle events as 
required. Or trying to debug badly/non documented errors in 3rd party 
functions.

The cost/time to really work down to the low level and gets things 
exactly right never seems to be justified, leading to a lot of 
second-rate 'good enough' production that you can't really take pride in.

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The most soul-destroying things about computing 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-10 13:00 -0500
  Re: The most soul-destroying things about computing Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 11:09 -0800
  Re: The most soul-destroying things about computing Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-10 22:01 +0200
    Re: The most soul-destroying things about computing Vince Mulhollon <vincemulhollon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 06:51 -0800
  Re: The most soul-destroying things about computing Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 15:51 -0500
    Re: The most soul-destroying things about computing deepmagicbeginshere@gmail.com - 2014-02-10 18:15 -0800
  Re: The most soul-destroying things about computing Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-11 03:55 +0000
  Re: The most soul-destroying things about computing Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-12 20:20 -0800

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