The WTF in me
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A confession: I cannot work efficiently unless there is significant pressure applied to me.
Be it time, threats, whatever.
If I have lots of time, I'll inevitably come up with a solution that is overengineered and unmaintainable. I'll also have it 90% done.
If there's a deadline looming, however, I'll crank code that both works and is readable. It will be simple, elegant, readable, maybe short od a slight refactor, but still.
Why am I doing this to myself? How can I break this vicious circle? Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad?
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@wft said in The WTF in me:
Why am I doing this to myself? How can I break this vicious circle? Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad?
I tend to feel the same.
It's mostly fear of messing up which makes me procrastinate till the deadline just has gotten Real<super>TM</super>. Sadly that just makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy, and I can only hope my colleagues or boss are at least understanding.
The most important thing to realize though is that 90% of the time your colleagues are also winging it. How well do you work with them and how do you divide work?
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@wft said in The WTF in me:
Why am I doing this to myself? [...] Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad?
Because you are human, your brain is a stupid impulsive machine not fit for what we keep trying to make it do at all, and you will have to fight it forever. Such is life.
When someone invents a (metaphorical or not) "anti-procrastination pill", a lot of people will vehemently oppose it, saying it's an aberration and will ruin humanity or whatever. Then they will try it and realize it's literally the best thing to ever happen.
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@anonymous234 said in The WTF in me:
ruin humanity
literally the best thing to ever happen.
E_NOT_MUTUALLY_EXCLUSIVE. I think.
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@anonymous234 said in The WTF in me:
When someone invents a (metaphorical or not) "anti-procrastination pill", a lot of people will vehemently oppose it, saying it's an aberration and will ruin humanity or whatever. Then they will try it and realize it's literally the best thing to ever happen.
Someone has. It's called pair programming. If you're paired with the right person, the pair will have well over twice the productivity of either programmer working alone.
And you're perfectly correct to observe that a lot of people will vehemently oppose it, saying it's an aberration and will ruin humanity or whatever.
I only ever got paired with the right person once, but it was fucking amazing. Both of us would walk away from a day's work at 5pm feeling the good kind of tired, just from producing such astonishing amounts of first-time-correct code in so little time. It's also one of the few work forms that makes formal code review largely superfluous, simply because it's happening line by line by line as the code's getting written.
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@flabdablet said in The WTF in me:
I only ever got paired with the right person once, but it was fucking amazing.
Did it make masturbation breaks awkward or was that just the real reason behind the awesomeness?
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@anonymous234 said in The WTF in me:
When someone invents a (metaphorical or not) "anti-procrastination pill",
There are pills for different causes of procrastination
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@boomzilla said in The WTF in me:
Did it make masturbation breaks awkward
The difference between two lone programmers and a well matched pair is a lot like the difference that makes good sex so much more fun than wanking.
As is also the case for sex, you can't just moosh two randomly selected coders together and expect good pair programming to happen. The intellectual chemistry has to be there.
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@Zecc said in The WTF in me:
We need a "TRWTF was me all along" meme.
Or not.
Filed under: He'll open doors
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@wft it sounds like you just need to get better at procrastinating.
You've seen that Ballmer peak graph, right? It's like that, but with procrastination on the x-axis... the trick is to get just the right amount of procrastination.
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@wft said in The WTF in me:
Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad?
Because you have yet to embrace the enlightened state of being that is Structured Procrastination.
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As one of my CS professors liked to say, "being truly lazy requires a lot of hard work."
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@flabdablet said in The WTF in me:
walk away from a day's work at 5pm feeling the good kind of tired,
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@flabdablet said in The WTF in me:
@wft said in The WTF in me:
Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad?
Because you have yet to embrace the enlightened state of being that is Structured Procrastination.
This is my life.
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Count me in among to others who fall for this trap. Daily status meetings help a lot to combat this. I get self-conscious if I realize I have to bullshit my progress a little to the team. So that alone motivates me to keep on top of things.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The WTF in me:
@flabdablet said in The WTF in me:
walk away from a day's work at 5pm feeling the good kind of tired,
?See where you're coming
from but no, there's a valuable distinction here.The good kind of tired is what you feel after working at your full capacity all day on making solid progress toward a goal that's increasingly clearly achievable.
The bad kind is the exhaustion that means you spend all day doing nothing because you didn't sleep properly the night before due to worrying about how ineffective you were yesterday.
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@flabdablet said in The WTF in me:
The bad kind is the exhaustion that means you spend all day doing nothing because you didn't sleep properly the night before due to worrying about how ineffective you were yesterday.
Yeah, that's incredibly annoying. There are some times I wish I could shut up the agenda alerts...
Like, seriously, yes, I know I'm 22 days behind on maintenance, yes, there are 24 days left before the Con and stuff isn't done, yadda yadda. Urg, sometimes a snooze function would be wonderful!
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@flabdablet said in The WTF in me:
Pair programming.
if you really hate pears, you could try pear programming.
it's where your options are to either program or eat a pear.*now i feel vaguely like i saw some form of this joke already today. probably why it popped into my head now
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@hungrier said in The WTF in me:
@Zecc said in The WTF in me:
We need a "TRWTF was me all along" meme.
Or not.
Filed under: He'll open doors
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@ben_lubar ..... Seriously? It was old before the first one...
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@JBert said in The WTF in me:
It's mostly fear of messing up which makes me procrastinate till the deadline just has gotten Real<super>TM</super>.
Oh yeah. "It's like 80% done, I should do some testing now. But if I test, it will probably turn out that it's actually more like 20% and there's a world of pain in bugfixing ahead. Hm, there's this other project that's actually really really important, let's see ..."
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@darkmatter said in The WTF in me:
if you really hate pears, you could try pear programming.
it's where your options are to either program or eat a pear.Reminds me, I kept a friend from calling his new company "peer2pear" once. He didn't understand why I found the name so horrible and was a bit disappointed because he'd designed a logo already. Turned out that, being German, he had been mispronouncing "pear" as a homophone of "peer" all his life, and he wasn't familiar with the expression "pear-shaped" either.
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@ben_lubar Here's one I just thought of:
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: That was extremely unoriginalhard to scroll through. Maybe this forum is the fool.
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@hungrier Yeah, I asked if they would only do that delayed loading thing for stuff above the visible page and they said that they wouldn't because it's a way to save bandwidth on mobile. Which totally wasn't the reason for preventing jellypotato and makes it worse in that sense.
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@boomzilla On another forum I've used, they had placeholders that would get filled in when they became visible, which prevented any jellypotatoing. It may be a bit trickier to implement that on nodebb, though, since nodebb supports external img links and oneboxes.
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@ben_lubar you know, it would've been less annoying if you posted... say... 4 of them. Then put like 5 more of them inside a details that says "More". And the rest of them in another details that says "Even more".
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@anotherusername
At least he didn't @mention @ trust_level_3 when he did it?
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@hungrier said in The WTF in me:
@boomzilla On another forum I've used, they had placeholders that would get filled in when they became visible, which prevented any jellypotatoing. It may be a bit trickier to implement that on nodebb, though, since nodebb supports external img links and oneboxes.
It would also help, not for jellypotato but for simple usability (ha! what's that?), to have any kind of icon or whatever before the picture is loaded, just to indicate that a picture (or onebox or anything) is coming up.
At the moment, a post with a picture and a couple of words, if the picture doesn't load immediately, makes for very strange reading...
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@ben_lubar While I'm glad you posted that (I'm proud to be the single upvote), the post was extremely long.
Perhaps... you should have made it shorter.
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@wft said in The WTF in me:
Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad?
Did Moby ever find an answer?
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@aliceif said in The WTF in me:
Did Moby ever find an answer?
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@izzion said in The WTF in me:
@anotherusername
At least he didn't @mention @ trust_level_3 when he did it?@trust-level-3
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@groo @crust_level_3
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@anonymous234 said in The WTF in me:
If you want the images to render inside the
, you need to leave a blank line after it.Because that makes perfect sense...
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@anonymous234 said in The WTF in me:
If you want the images to render inside the
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