The Perils of Developers Hooking Up

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The Perils of Developers Hooking Up

Posted by timothy on Monday September 17, 2012 @07:34AM from the like-with-like-among-their-own-kind dept.

jammag writes "Who better for a developer to love than another developer? Yet as a veteran coder describes, it's not always a good idea for a programmer to fall for another programmer. He describes his experience observing — and getting partially pulled into — a romance within a development team. Part of the problem, perhaps, is that some developers spend so much time buried in code that, well, they quickly find themselves out of their league. Then again, why not love among the code?"

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Old wisdom by SquarePixel · 2012-09-17 07:35 · Score: 4, Funny

This is nothing more than the old wisdom of not dating anyone who is exactly like you. You need someone that shares little same interestst, but who can fullfil things you dont like or do. Yes, you can have one night stands between developers, but then again, majority of female programmers are ugly and insecure as hell, so you might want to get a normal person anyway.
1. Re:Old wisdom by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-09-17 08:03 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I am a mechanical engineer, wife is electrical.
  So, she brought the spark with her and you gave her steaming hot sex in exchange?
  
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2. Re:Old wisdom by multipartmixed · 2012-09-17 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  > I am a mechanical engineer, wife is electrical.
  Wow, you are SO in the wrong field. I am a software engineer; my wife is biological.
  
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3. Re:Old wisdom by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-17 08:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  one of our dev teams is over half female and none of them are ugly or insecure
  From the waist up, right? How is life in Thailand?
4. Re:Old wisdom by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-17 08:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'm a developer, my wife is a DBA.
  She hates me, I hate her.
5. Re:Old wisdom by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-17 11:00 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  one of our dev teams is over half female and none of them are ugly or insecure
  From the waist up, right? How is life in Thailand?
  No, female from the waist down - they are very flat chested. If they had big boobs they'd never have gone into programming.
6. Re:Old wisdom by psithurism · 2012-09-17 12:42 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If they had big boobs they'd never have gone into programming.
  Really? Because almost all of the programmers that I know have enormous, hairy boobs. Doesn't seem to have impeded those guys in the least.
7. Re:Old wisdom by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-17 13:47 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  I would go for a walk and she would go into the kitchen and make something.
  Better be a sandwich.
You've changed... by Translation+Error · 2012-09-17 07:36 · Score: 4, Funny

Why don't you ever comment anymore?

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1. Re:You've changed... by TheGratefulNet · 2012-09-17 07:39 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  (mumble) perl necklace (/mumble)
  
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2. Re:You've changed... by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2012-09-17 07:42 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Oooh, dereference my pointer.
3. Re:You've changed... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-17 07:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'm gonna violate array bounds like nobody's business.
  You won't even have time to garbage collect before I'm dumping core.
4. Re:You've changed... by wcrowe · 2012-09-17 07:52 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep
  
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5. Re:You've changed... by X0563511 · 2012-09-17 07:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Maybe you just need to spend a bit more time initializing your pointer.
  
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6. Re:You've changed... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-17 08:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If you are trying to make a joke, atleast do it properly. Use a semicolon instead of the comma, and it makes sense in both english and bash.
7. Re:You've changed... by jmerlin · 2012-09-17 08:05 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Where's the MilkFactory?
  RIght there, I'm pointing to it.
  I don't se..
  Segmentation Fault
8. Re:You've changed... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-17 08:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  if you just unmount, sleep without at least some touch, you probably getting an access denied when you try to logon the next time...
9. Re:You've changed... by Translation+Error · 2012-09-17 08:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You ass! You promised me you were in safe mode!
  
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10. Re:You've changed... by ifiwereasculptor · 2012-09-17 08:21 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep
  And remember, folks: using sudo is NOT OK!
11. Re:You've changed... by da007 · 2012-09-17 09:11 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Why don't you ever comment anymore?
  Because you don't commit.
12. Re:You've changed... by thePowerOfGrayskull · 2012-09-17 09:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Why don't you ever comment anymore?
  Because you don't commit.
  Maybe I'd be more willing to commit if you'd be more willing to fork.
The perils of programmers marrying by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2012-09-17 07:37 · Score: 5, Funny

I have to assume gestation takes about 17 months. And the resulting baby in no way resembles what everyone was expecting.
1. Re:The perils of programmers marrying by SJHillman · 2012-09-17 07:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Babies have scope creep written all over them.
2. Re:The perils of programmers marrying by Intrepid+imaginaut · 2012-09-17 07:42 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But if you have nine people involved, it only takes one month! Or so my manager told me once.
3. Re:The perils of programmers marrying by Bogtha · 2012-09-17 07:45 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Just wait until you hear about how long you've got to support it. And you go to jail if you EOL it!
  
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4. Re:The perils of programmers marrying by Translation+Error · 2012-09-17 07:51 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  If you end up having twins (or triplets, etc.), do you tell everyone that your pregnancy forked?
  
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"why not love among the code?" by Virtucon · 2012-09-17 07:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Because you'll get the keyboards all sticky!

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Re:Ugh by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2012-09-17 07:49 · Score: 4, Funny

It's a badly written work of fiction. I'm guessing it got posted on Datamation because even Harlequin has standards.

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the PERLs of Developers Hooking-Up by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-17 07:56 · Score: 2, Funny

It all starts-out with that flirtatious morning JAVA, and soon, it's on to PERL necklaces, and RUBY on rings.
Son of Software by carrier+lost · 2012-09-17 08:03 · Score: 3, Funny

My mother was a web-app, my father was mobile. I am the result of a one-time backend synchronization.

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It Was A Documented Affair by nurbles · 2012-09-17 08:33 · Score: 3, Funny

When I was in the USAF in the '80s I was maintaining a system written by some folks from Sandia Labs in Albequerque. Apparently, two of them were having a bit of an affair (when they visited our site, at least) and they'd taken to leaving notes for each other in the code comments. While those comments didn't help me resolve issues with the code (and there were quite a few) they did occasionally provide some welcome humorous relief while searching for bugs. Especially when a few were found and we tried to match them up without any context or sequence info...
Good thing their spouses weren't cleared to see the code...
Re:Even a dog knows... by TheInternetGuy · 2012-09-17 13:17 · Score: 2, Funny

Even a dog knows...not to shit where they eat.
I beg to differ, and so does Matt Inman it would seem. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox

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