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"Programming Sucks" (www.stilldrinking.org)

submitted 5 months ago by Mbourgon@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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Don’t know how I’ve never come across this, but this made me laugh and cry and nod appreciatively.

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[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In about 2 weeks this will be 10 years old

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And I’m honestly astonished I’d never come across this before. This ranks up there with the story of Mel.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Mel, a real programmer!

I'd add a motherfucking website. While not exactly a story, it's one of my favorite bits on the internets

[–] lud@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Don't forget about the sequels:

[–] quantenzitrone@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

everything beyond https://motherfuckingwebsite.com is worse imo

[–] lud@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago

Nah, it takes very little effort or compute to get something much much better in pretty much every aspect.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.

Well... said?

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which is odd- I threaten mine, and that’s why it behaves.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

opens htop threateningly

[–] gari_9812@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is telling that I read the entire post feeling varying degrees of incredulity and despair, yet what really upset me was the missing <rant> at the beginning.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

"This is so funny and painful!"

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

ERROR: Attempted to parse HTML with regular expression; system returned Cthulhu.

classic.

[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Is this what burnout looks like?