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Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In?
sausaw writes "I recently had to write code in a hot dusty room for 20 days with temperatures near 107F (~41C); having nothing to sit on; a 64 Kbps inconsistent internet connection; warm water for drinking and a lot of distractions and interruptions. I am sure many people have been in similar situations and would like to know your experiences."
Those guffaws are annoying.
No matter the physical environment, nothing is an intense and scary as the pressure that mounts above you as you attempt to code on a customer's premises, on production code, trying to find a problem you didn't cause and barely understand, with no connectivity and no source control and no opportunity for QA.
-mkb
Think of your worst day - hot, dusty, grimy, no showers - now add the possibility you'll be shot at.
Punctuate that with actual gunfire.
Near you.
No, I'm not kidding.
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Or a sadist in management looking to see what they can get away with.
Yes, yes, that's what the books and professors at the university try to teach you.
The reality... Well, it's kind of different, you see. The client did not know what he wanted when writing down the specs, the guys writing the spec were incompetent, the testers were lazy - and finally, it's you, who followed the specs to the letter, who has to hang above a vat of chemicals with a 'scope and a laptop and tweak the code to make it actually do what the client wanted, not what he meant and the spec guys understood. Ever seen this?
This is Slashdot. Common sense is futile. You will be modded down.
Seriously, you need to name names. You need to blog this one.
As I have found out to my detriment: you can come back to the code later.
The woman, however...
My UID is prime. Is yours?
Sounds quite unbelievable to me. Vaporize ~15cm of flesh plus a femoral bone inside during a several second free fall? A damned good showcase of heat transfer.
Ezekiel 23:20
That was my thought, too. Of course, to some people, everybody who doesn't think exactly like they do is evil, and it's fair game to accuse them of anything you can think of regardless of the facts.
It's a tad off-topic, but maybe the OP should consider that if Hamas vanished, the violence would end; if the IDF vanished, so would Israel.
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"One mistake and you have to support it forever."
-=Maggie Leber=-
I can see the Andromeda Galaxy from my house!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
I call bullshit on the word "semetic" - it's apparently only used to incite confusion amongst people. Why not try something that makes more direct sense like "anti-Jewish" or "anti-Israel". WTF is "semetic" and why's it got any modern usage? Please remove the word. Maybe Jewish/Israeli people know what it mean, but most of the rest of the people in the world don't have a clue what it means.
Please remove semetic.
I'm Conservative, myself. I respect the Orthodox, but not the hyper-orthodox or those keeping Glatt Kosher. IMO, they're just playing the "holier than thou" card. The big trouble is that (again, IMO) they have too much political power in Israel because their splinter parties can crash any coalition government if they don't get their way. I'd guess that most of the people in Gaza want peace and would have it if their "government" gave a damn about them instead of considering them as nothing more than cattle to use as human shields when their intransigence causes the IDF to mount Yet Another Punitive Expedition.
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