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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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.
Re:You've changed... by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2012-09-17 07:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Oooh, dereference my pointer.
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.
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.
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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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?
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.
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.