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submitted 11 months ago by httpjames@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I've always been curious as to what "normal" people think programming is like. The wildest theory I've heard is "typing ones and zeroes" (I'm a software engineer)

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[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A laughably small team is expected to do tasks that take triple the team size to do properly, and then the team gets endlessly shit on for Facebook looking different now for unrelated reasons while getting zero recognition for somehow finding a way to get some massive project done on an absurd timeline with no additional resources.

I have been in power plants for many years now. Nobody notices us until we fuck up, and then nobody ever forgets. For example, Three Mile Island.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

Three Mile Island was as much a UX problem as anything else.

[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A laughably small team is expected to do tasks that take triple the team size to do properly, and then the team gets endlessly shit on for Facebook looking different now for unrelated reasons while getting zero recognition for somehow finding a way to get some massive project done on an absurd timeline with no additional resources.

You already have the latter 5 year portion of what you learn in your first 10 years as a computer scientist

Now you just need the first 5 years of education

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