Poll: Top ten programmer excuses
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Developer's Top 10 replies when code doesn't work...
Which one have you heard the most? I've heard variants of all of 'em, but #6 takes the cake!
Which one have you heard the most? I've heard variants of all of 'em, but #6 takes the cake!
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"Your using it wrong"
I gotta say I've heard "it works on my machine" quite a few times.
"It was working yesterday!"
"It works on my machine..."
"It's never done that before..."
... This happened with amazing regularity. Some programmer would do a build and forget to set the exe file to read-only. A writable file isn't copied over in updates.
Yes.
"Well, it it works on mine."
It's fucked here.
"And you got latest?"
Yes
"Send me an example file"
Sent
"Hmm...works here...did you get latest?"
YES.
"I'll come round"
.....
"It might be your graphics card..."
...
"Try it now."
Yup, thats working, thanks. What was up?
"Oh, I forgot to check something in"
Yeah.
It's never done that before.
That's weird...
Not only are those the ones I hear the most, but the ones I use the most.
edit: You win this time, Ericwick! *shakes fist*
Whenever programmers on my team get an opprtunity to bash max, they take it. it's like it's the 1930's and Max is a minority or something.
-R
As a programmer, I can honestly say 90% of all bugs are caused by stupid end users
curently on the switch to max 8 and getting our in house tools for warhammer working, with it , our art tools package has started forming some unique and curious bugs,
my favorite so far, is you have your material eddito open and workign in the games custom shader material, then poof.. al of the info for it disapeers, and the pops up as a rollout in your max command pannel, its still workable, but anoying since you can only see half of its width since the comand panel colums are so narrow,
brian ad a more extreme version of this, where the material info replaced ALL his normal command pannel info.
"it's not ouyr fault, max is a turd"
Whenever programmers on my team get an opprtunity to bash max, they take it. it's like it's the 1930's and Max is a minority or something.
-R
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OMG! I am so with you on that one. It strikes me considerably because I had a run in just yesterday evening with a programmer who instead of trying a solution I provided, proceeded to bash Max for at least 20-30 minutes. It can be extremely frustrating. I had one time last project where I came into work and sat down to load up a model I was working on to find that all of my data had been deleted from Perforce...not just that model but every model, texture and animation I did for that project up to that point. I nearly started to cry because I was the only one in the office that morning at the time. Turns out a contracted programmer in Germany via VPN had decided to completely restructure the directory tree in Perforce and had moved all of my files offline until he got the new structure completed. Needless to say nobody in the office but our director of technology knew he was doing this and he conveniently wasn't in the office.
however at one of my last gigs they had a very capable team of coders and when i had some issues with a rather complex skinning/export job (you know how ugly that can get, no?) i didn't hear the usual "ah, well, no idea what's happening, try it again with less influences/bones/whatever" but more of an "that's not your problem, let us handle it". and voila - next day when i came into work, everything was solved...
"wow, cool!"
Frank the Avenger
I'd go back to my desk, look up the code, the write it in excel's macro editor (Since we were programming in VB). Then I would present him with the code, "Here, try this." Response, "WOW! That works." Usually it would be one or two lines of code to accomplish what he already had a page of code attempting to do. You'd think he'd listen to me the next time, but sure enough... "That won't work."
Unfortunately, since I was hired to do electronics, my boss wouldn't let me do any coding. Even when we were slow. Guess it's better for me to sit at my desk staring at the walls, than to create useful programs.
Guess it's better for me to sit at my desk staring at the walls, than to create useful programs.
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