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Recoding because some product manager has changed his/her mind and shoehorned some feature modification into the spec, which trashes the design and requires a major rewrite. I hate doing things twice.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
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Mine is not technical. Overall, I am pleased with the tools and helps I have in VS2022.
My least favorite part of coding is interference in my coding by non-technical project managers.
Such as (and I paraphrase for brevity):
“That will take too long to do it right.”
“Are we there yet?”
“I read somewhere you should be using language Y instead of language X. Go back and rewrite all the code in language X.”
“We don’t need exception handling and logging. Just do it without all that.”
“Why is it taking so long?”
“Let’s add more programmers so we get this done sooner.” (said about halfway or after the midpoint of the project)
“We need more meetings.”
And, of course, the reader could add more.
P.S. I have over 20 years as a project manager with the technical knowledge, skills, and abilities. This is about the non-technical project managers who don’t have the necessary knowledge and experience on how software engineering projects differ from other projects they learned about in their coursework. I thank God everyday for those non-technical project managers that understand they need to learn the difference and are teachable. They make fantastic project managers.
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The basic lesson they should've been taught is that a little learning is a dangerous thing.
Or putting it another way, the more you learn the more you see how little you know....
I'm currently bingeing on the very perceptive BBC comedies "Twenty Twelve" and "W1A", where several of the characters illustrate the above very well. Chief airhead and "Head of Brand" Siobhan Sharpe portrays this kind of PIA hilariously.
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Learning to code with C# and coming from VB 6 & VB.Net and not know what I am doing
So asking a question on CP and receiving an answer that
Makes me think
Tells me what to understand
OR best some example code that I can expand on
The real fun is going back and fixing the code in a application
when I learn a better way to structure the code
ie putting all my CRUD functions in a Library
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Forgive me, but I think you may have misread my question?
I was asking about the least favorite, not your favorite.
Maybe I misunderstood your response though.
*head scratch*
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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YES I misread your question
Guess I was on the positive side of everything today
NO you did not misunderstand my response
Perhaps my least favorite thing is NOT knowing what I am doing
and asking dumb questions.
I try to not be like the poster that asked OG in the questions
Where do I find that
I have looked at your IoT graphic library
Trying to make a IR remote to turn on my shop vac
when I start my Table Saw 20 amp circuit
The one I purchased keeps tripping the breaker
so I just keep them on separate circuits
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Choroid wrote: Trying to make a IR remote to turn on my shop vac
I know there are off the shelf IR tranceivers and such so it shouldn't be incredibly difficult.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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My worst part of coding is when I'm constantly asked to defend the code when it turns out that the data is the cause of the problem.
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Trying to explain to Dunning-Kruger management types why their brilliant idea would cause a disaster.
Favorite quote from a CEO: "it's all objects, right? Can't you just change it anyway you want?"
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Debugging. It makes me see how stupid I can be.
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I don't like it, but I feel like it's good for the soul to be reminded periodically of how little I actually know.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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Take heart - the more you learn, the more you realise how little you know. So the corollary must be that the more you realise how little you know, the more you must have learned.
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Explaining to other programmers that because the code they are working on was first coded 20 years ago there is no possible way that those programmers could have designed it to work with what is needed now.
And in the same way they should not try to guess what will be needed 20 years from now by adding stuff that has nothing to do with what is needed now.
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I remember learning to code in 1978. My instructor said I was using too much storage using 4 digit years. Most code wouldn't be running by 2000.
In 2000 I was doing the job I hated most debugging code written 22+ years before where the programmer chose to save space and made it necessary to rewrite code to use 4 digit years.
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And you can still buy a horse buggy whip. But one must use the 'horse' when looking since there is now a different meaning for 'buggy whip' that is more popular.
But that doesn't mean that the automobile should be trashed.
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I answered a question on VSCode in QA this morning, and ended with a suggestion that he might have to talk to MS Tech Support.
So he came back asking for the MS Tech Support link ... he got google.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's not just QA. Laziness and lack of work ethic is running rampant across the United States and the world, especially with the younger folks.
It's bad, real bad.
Just imagine this person that you refer to in your OP and how they are in their everyday life. Makes you wonder how they can possibly make it through the day without getting killed or maimed in some way. These "people" need constant, 24/7/365 assistance in every aspect of their lives, completely unable to care for themselves in any capacity. They bring absolutely nothing to the table in regards to advancing humans into the next generation. They are the pinnacle of human parasite life forms.
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What are politicians doing trying to write code?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The author, Steve Magness, in his book Do Hard Things[^], does a brilliant job unraveling how this all happened.
When I read it ==> 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Here are some snippets that summarize what he said:
From chapter 4 of the book
Building the Wrong Kind of Confidence
“Nice. Kind. Good friend. Fast runner. Penguin lover.” Hanging on the side of my parents’ fridge for the past thirty years, this sliver of laminated paper is a reminder of what my classmates thought of nine-year-old Steve. For my parents, it was a trinket, a sign that they were raising a “good” kid, whose peers thought highly of him.
When I was nine, I remember feeling a bit strange about this activity. There were a few students in the class who weren’t the kindest, who I had to search hard to find something nice about, and I generally left some sort of generic platitude as my response, like, “enjoys kickball.”
As a child growing up in the 1990s, I encountered a deluge of similar exercises aimed at enhancing my self-esteem. There were school-wide assemblies and classroom activities all aimed at making us feel better about ourselves.
In 1986, California governor George Deukmejian signed legislation creating a task force that promised to change how we dealt with society’s issues.
The architect of the task force was John Vasconcellos, a California politician with a knack for the extravagant.
After undergoing self-esteem-focused therapy to help his own mental health, Vasconcellos transformed into an evangelist, proselytizing the benefits of self-esteem to all who would listen.
Two years into their mission, Neil Smelser, the sociologist Vasconcellos had recruited to research the impact of self-esteem, gave a preliminary report informing the task force that “these correlational findings are really pretty positive, pretty compelling.”
Vasconcellos had found his proof—and sound bite. He plastered it across news stations far and wide, appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today.
In 1990, Vasconcellos produced his magnum opus, titled Toward a State of Esteem. In the executive summary, low self-esteem was declared a contributing factor to a slew of maladies, including drug and alcohol abuse, crime and violence, poverty and welfare dependency, and family and workplace problems.
The 161-page report reads as if the group had found the key to fixing society. In fact, it states just that on page 21: “Self-esteem is the likeliest candidate for a social vaccine, something that empowers us to live responsibly and that inoculates us against the lures of crime, violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, child abuse, chronic welfare dependency, and educational failure.” There was one little problem. The conclusions were a lie, based on opinion, not what the research actually found.
According to the data, the lone scientist, Smelser, concluded, “Self-esteem remains elusive because it is difficult to pinpoint scientifically. . . . The associations between self-esteem and its expected consequences are mixed, insignificant, or absent.” The scientific validation was not there. And that glowing sound bite by Smelser that landed the group on Oprah? It was taken out of context.
Politicians and the media alike grabbed hold of the self-esteem movement and catapulted it into the stratosphere.
Schools implemented the self-esteem interventions I and millions of others experienced as children. Even the way we talked to our kids changed.
According to psychologist Jean Twenge, the frequency of slogans like “Believe in yourself and anything is possible" skyrocketed in the 80s & 90s.
Posters with positive sayings adorned school classrooms throughout the nation.
With the self-esteem movement, we flipped the script, trying to give self-esteem without the accompanying action and work to validate it.
Even worse, we shifted the focus away from the joy of actually doing the work and toward external praise and rewards. We were creating an artificial kind of self-esteem, a fragile one based on a delusion.
We built self-esteem that was contingent and focused on the external
When our self-worth is dependent on outside factors, we have what researchers call a contingent self-worth. We derive our sense of self from what people think and how we are judged.
When you know that you are only "as good as you are in other's eyes" then you don't try anything hard because if you fail then you are "not good" in other's eyes. So, people learn to only want to be seen as good.
Then he goes on to explain how we've they've discovered that extrinsic motivation (bonus $, nice words, etc.) always fails -- people need intrinsic motivation (desire to achieve for their own reasons) to do great things.
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raddevus wrote: people need intrinsic motivation
How do I say this without getting banned again on the site... hmmm
People of a certain IQ or greater will achieve great things or have the potential to achieve great things, the others well, will not achieve great things in a million lifetimes. You can't cure stupid.
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Slacker007 wrote: You can't cure stupid.
I get it. But I actually don't even believe in IQ any more.
I believe in Fixed Mindset versus Growth Mindset.
When I was young I failed miserably in public school. And public school told me I was dumb.
I had a friend who literally never got anything in school except As.
I knew that he was born a genius and I was born an idiot.
I couldn't do anything. I barely tried anything but I was always striving to prove myself as smart.
But I couldn't because I couldn't do anything. I was Fixed mindset => "Those who are smart can and the others (me) are dumb"
Then when I was 17 I was doing nothing and working at Toys R Us and on a whim on a weekend I read the book, "How To Draw On the Right Side of the Brain[^]" by Betty Edwards (this was back in 1985).
Something happened and I learned to draw photorealistic images over a weekend of intense and alone study.
I was mesmerized. What!?! I'd learned magic??? No one can teach you to draw, right? It's magic!
Then over the next few weeks something happened inside me. "If you can learn the magic of drawing, then it means you could learn anything!! Anything!!"
But, it takes WORK!! You must work hard and learn.
On that day I transformed from Fixed Mindset to Growth Mindset.
After that when I wanted to learn something I read a book and applied myself and even though I was dumb I started learning things.
but it's hard and it takes hard work.
However, it's much easier for a fixed mindset person to bail out by saying, "I just don't have the tools, because I'm not smart at Math or Computers or drawing or whatever."
That's the real problem. People believe, like I did, that if you try something and fail then you are a loser. That all changed for me.
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I think there is a good amount of truth there, but there is also an amount of "entitlement" involved as well - the feeling that they deserve what they want (the latest iPhony, "respect", or whatever) immediately which older generations grew out of as young children. I'd blame that on both parents (who should have to pass exams before breeding) and TV / advertisers who have pushed that message for a couple of decades now. The whole concept of earning seems to be missing from at least one whole generation, probably more.
But ... that's a sweeping generalisation as well, and there are probably as many exceptions as there are inclusions just they don't stick out as much and thus don't get noticed.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Interesting and timely ...
My stepson, his wife and children came to visit us this afternoon. As he was getting ready to go out in the garden, I noticed that the 3 year old had his shoes on the wrong feet. "Hey, Will", I called, "you've got your shoes on the wrong feet". His mother said that at the nursery (kindergarten) they tell you never to correct your children, as it is bad for their self-esteem. Fortunately William's parents are sensible people.
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Worth seeing: Alternative Math | Short Film - YouTube[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I only hand out platitudes from Despair.com[^].
Will Rogers never met me.
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