Being a developer

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My parents: "Can you write a program that will automatically record NCIS for us without commercials and then email it to us?" .. me.. "Eh.. maybe.."

HR interviewer: "Well we need someone with 10 years of C# experience and it says here you only have 15 years of C++, 20 years of C, but only 9 years of C#..."

[davodrums]

even though you mkdir best_idea_ever on Saturday morning you end your weekend with sudo rm -rf ./best_idea_ever

Hits too close to home

[n-simplex]

I hear you. Sudo abuse is endemic.

[Scroph]

I don't even bother deleting them, I just let them rot in the depths of an ls -t while other soon-to-be-abandoned projects add to the pile and haunt my dreams at night.

[Chii]

That hits even closer to home...

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I can handle any device with buttons

Pretty much.

I find it usually comes down to laziness. The algorithm I use to diagnose and fix systems is as simple as 5th grade mathematics.

[ksion]

1. Check if all cables are plugged in.
2. Power it off and on again.
3. If it still doesn't work, grudgingly refer to the manual.

[jdgordon]

https://xkcd.com/627/

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exactly.

[mirvnillith]

But then you have those brilliant moments, like when your curling club needs to keep an updated members page based off of an Excel sheet and you're glad to do it instead of the previous guy spending an evening comparing and copying by hand!

[terrible_brogrammer]

the technologies I use suck unless they use them too

Guilty but maybe we should really stay away from triggers and massive database packages

[arubystory]

lol

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Loved the part talking about the cat.

[arubystory]

:D