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Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the flame-wars dept.

snydeq writes: Flame wars in the bug tracker might be exactly the right (harsh) feedback your code needs, writes Peter Wayner in his run-down of the insults no programmer wants to hear about their code or coding skills. "The technology world is a bit different than the pretty, coiffed world of suits and salesdroids where everyone is polite, even when they hate your guts and think you're an idiot. Suit-clad managers may smile and hide their real message by the way they say you're doing "great, real great pal," but programmers often speak their minds, and when that mind has something unpleasant to say, look-out, feelings." Instead of posting this story in a click-bait fashion as presented from InfoWorld, we thought we'd ask the developers of Slashdot: What are some insults no developer wants to hear? Some of the classic insults include: N00b, /dev/null, Eye Candy, Fanboi, and [Nothing]. Are there any insults you are familiar with that aren't mentioned in the list?

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  1. "Did you even test this??!!!" by tonyyeb · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Yes but as I'm not a moron I never thought of the user story from your perspective..."

  2. systemd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    systemd

  3. Your mom is so fat by attwo · · Score: 5, Funny

    the recursive function computing her mass causes a stack overflow.

  4. Biggest insult... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow this is microsoft quality!

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  5. My personal favorite by scunc · · Score: 5, Funny

    This code is so poorly documented that Donald Trump wants to send it back to Mexico!

  6. Insult no programmer wants to hear: by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You code like a UX designer"

    Those are fighting words. :)

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    1. Re:Insult no programmer wants to hear: by xevioso · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, most of the cows I know are outstanding in their field. :-)

    2. Re:Insult no programmer wants to hear: by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually, most of the cows I know are outstanding in their field. :-)

      Only until you reach a tipping point...

  7. You've never used our product, have you? by bruce_the_moose · · Score: 3, Funny

    From a sr. developer delivered directly to the face of another developer who had been at the company a few years.

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  8. Re: Your mom is so technology illiterate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    she thinks Apple is a tech company.

  9. Re:Is this a joke? by flopsquad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now see here, you young whipper snapper I don't know who you think you're deali$

    I don't care one bit for your condescending, flippant attitude about line wrapp$

    And while I was stapling punch cards to vacuum tubes in the golden age of compu$

    I single-handedly rewrote our nuclear missile guidance systems on an 80x24 term$

    And the whole time I was with Tim Leary ripped in half on sunshine acid and amy$

    Look I'm sorry for what I said earlier about your mother, I just get cranky abo$

    Constantly trampling my prize zinnias! And my fescue isn't going to reseed itse$

    Jesus they're back, I have to go chase them off while waving a rake in the air.

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