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The best parts of being a developer:
1. Full Internet access and admin rights.
2. It's nearly impossible for someone to tell if you are working or just zoning out.
3. We have the best online communities... because we make all of them.7 -
Knowing that yours is probably the last job that will be automated, followed only by complete annihilation of humanity by artificial intelligence..5
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Best Part of beeing a dev is that i don't have to dress well at all, sneakers and hoodie are fine, even in meetings :-)4
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- Open your terminal, you're a hacker
- Reinstall Windows, your aunt will be happy
- Put on the cool hacker T-shirt, nobody dares to talk to you (enjoy!)
- No matter what you do - self driving car AI or struggle aligning your CSS, you are a 'dev'1 -
The best part of being a dev?
Want something?
It doesn't exist?
Build it yourself!
It feels like a superpower. :D2 -
The best part of being a dev?
You can be a nerd, you can dress lousy, you got all those fancy tech you can work with, it's diverse, it's fun. And on top of that, it's not even remotely hard to find a job and get payed well.8 -
Not a developer, but I married one <3 best part is, I get to learn devs stuff so that I can be the smarty-pants at work...
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Me teaching a co-worker programming.
Him:"So what exactly is the difference between Java and JavaScript?"
Me:"About the same as the difference between cars and carpets."
Thank you guys for teaching me how to answer that.2 -
Best part of being a dev?
The perceived ability to fix ANY electronic device owned by friends and family.
"So you work with computers? Any idea what's wrong with my toaster?"7 -
It has to be the community. Just look at devRant - an open community where - unlike on the rest of the internet - people are friendly and warm. Then there's the concept of open source and GitHub, where people post large and complex projects for free and even the smallest of developers can create issues and pull requests (shouldn't they be called push requests though?) - no other profession will help others out in over 15 million different ways.5
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The best part of being a developer is being to make any tool/software you want!
Need something? Doesn't exist? Make it yourself!2 -
The best part of being a dev is the constant thrill of constantly fearing you wil fuck something up and bliss of finishing something after so many hours of frustration. We devs are actually more adventurous than we look.. Constantly living on the edge of deadlines.3
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Best part of being a dev ?
You don't need college degree.
You will never get bored even if you are alone.
You can learn everything yourself, online.
Last but not the least, Being the dev is awesome in itself. :)5 -
Working from home, picking my own hours of work, being paid ridiculous sums of money, and of course, all the pretty ladies. Oh wait. I have none of that. :(4
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My favorite part of being a developer is that no matter what craziness is going on in my life I can put on my headphones and lose myself in logical problem solving.1
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Obviously the: "I feel like a god" feeling, when something i made works :)
(Even if it doesn't work the way it was supposed to lol)1 -
Grow a beard, gain weight, be a weirdo and spend the evening with some beer and Cheese Doodles. It is all socially acceptable because "he's a developer"7
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That magical moment, that tickle in the neurons when you finally understand the problem and the program runs!1
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Genuinely for me the satisfaction is when you write code that does really complex shit and your happy that it actually works.. Seriously satisfying3
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Best part of being a Dev us that we are basically wizards.
Now stay with me on this. At our command is the ability to think a solution to a problem and only using our minds and some gestures we can create entire worlds (games) .
We can create software and devices that can literally allow people to walk again.
We can connect people who are not even on the same planet as us (Sace Station) and have full conversations with them.
I don't know, there are limits to what we can do but give us some time and we can keep pushing them further and further.7 -
As a developer, you are working with colourful text, strange syntax, alot of math, and all the time you know that you are not the best yet!
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That "fuck yeah!" feeling you get when you finally fix that bug that has been bugging you for the last hour...
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That moment when you shout "i'm a fucking genius" too loud when you find out the solution after 2 hours of brain fuck, and your colleagues think you're crazy2
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Best part to being a dev? Attention 😼
(Perks (or struggle depending on how you see it) of being a female dev)11 -
I wonder how a bug report on devRant may look like.
Something like a bug report and a fix on the same email?1 -
Hmm best part of being a Dev? I guess it is the fact that you can know how things actually work in inside something instead of looking at it and saying "Its Magic!". It kinda ruins playing some games, since you figure them out pretty quickly.
Other than that, I like the feeling that I know enough about computers and performance and how things work that I can choose the best Desktop/Laptop and stay away from marketing bull. :)1 -
Being able to create almost anything you could think of. But you don't because you get enough of that shit at work...1
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I really love how beautiful code can be, and the feeling of creating something for others or yourself to enjoy. But I hate being the family's IT guy... I'm a developer not IT support.4
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Best part of being a dev? Rock star status when things are going well: had to get a fix out by 18:00, boss walks by as I'm watching something on YouTube and tells me the client called and wanted to be sure we'd have it done in time, told him not to worry and went back to my video. Pushed the fix at 17:30, and tomorrow I'll be in the same position: every last minute fix delivery only grows my reputation for getting critical last-minute fixes out in time... As skeptical as my boss was at the time when he walked past and saw me on YouTube he had to he polite because he knows how crucial I am to this project
I think tomorrow I'm going to work on my own project and slack off, no one will be able to tell me different2 -
Most hobbies need funding to get started and to continue. Wood to carve, cables and electronics to solder. Programmers need only their time (as long as they have a computer). It is the most cheap thing to pick up and learn.9
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Best part about being a dev? You need just a laptop and an active Internet connection to learn and start building.1
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As a college student, best part of being a dev is when there is no class, but instead of being happy for going home earlier to do whatever like everyone else, my happiness comes from being able to stay late at work, and put that project to roll.
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For me the best of being a dev was described by Fred Brooks in his "The Mythical Man-Month":
...The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures....
Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […] The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be...
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...1 -
So, I got my very first gaming laptop on March 2015. Took a break from the almighty PC Master Race.
It's an Asus ROG G751JT. It was doing great, running my favourite games at 60FPS on high-ultra settings.
Few months after purchasing it, I've been getting a lot of BSODs with the same error (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL)
As told by the guys at a local forum, I was told to try replacing the RAMs and I was stupid enough, I did. It has 4x 8GB HyperX Impact DDR3L.
The error still won't go away until I changed my SSDs. Which worked for a while until a week ago.
Getting the same BSOD countless times. This time I decided to directly talk to an expert, which is a friend of mine and guess what. It was the motherboard after all. Spent a lot of $$$$ to fix ONE BSOD.
Now I'm stuck with an Asus T100TF for about a month because I had to send it for warranty claim.
smh jfc anasmy y u so stupid for a year and a half. 10/10 worst experience (since it involved a lot of money)
What do you think of my stupidity? Comment below (10 marks).
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The valiant, majestic high horse I get to sit upon when a pm is completely and utterly wrong about something.1
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I can troll all day by opening Devtools on a browser and change <input type=“password“> to <input type=“text“> they think i hacked google, facebook and their email acoount
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The best part of being a dev is that no matter how long you take to solve a problem, you know that even after a whole night of solving issues it will be worth the effort because you will deliver a functional product and there is no best feeling.2
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The best part about being a junior developer is meeting veteran developers.
For example, my friend's father is an old world Linux guru. I've known him for a really long time, but never understood why he lived in a mansion.
Every time I see him now I make a point to bring up some small Linux thought. He always responds with some ridiculous history lesson about the origin of a command or how he still uses a regex alias he wrote 15 years ago.2 -
For the most part, I'm generally free to work at my pace. No one breathing down my neck. It could be a double-edged sword, but it's an overall benefit.
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Haveing Arch Linux on my old laptop. Before Arch it was slow. Now I have OS so minimalistic that there's almost nothing after booting.
I even have to start GUI manualy beacouse I don't need it always.
Almost non of my friends can use it so my data is safe here (I like privacy).
But for downside I imagine useing vim in text envirement during flight. Non tech guys can assume that useing vim is plane hijacking.5 -
Best part: being able to code every single stupid idea you and your friends come up with (nootnoot.org, www.but-in.space...)5
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Hands down, my favorite part being a dev the HUGE range of industries I can apply my craft to.
In 10 years, I've bounced from structural engineering, to vision accessibility, to healthcare, to eCommerce. All from the comfort of my developer's keyboard.
While this isn't necessarily unique to the dev role, it's the spice of life that keeps my mind to young.2 -
When you put a lot of time and effort into writing intricate code, and after a lot of work, the finished project is a beutiful creation.3
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Many advantages of being a dev:
- You can work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- You solve problems for a living, how cool is that!
- Job security (Even if you get fired or something, you can still earn your bread with your skills)
- Even if you are bed ridden or get in an accident or get old, you can still work(kind of a pessimist).
But the best part is, you get to do what you love(for me its true).1 -
Best part of being a dev is the fact that we get to use our brains everyday. No day is ever monotonous.
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Best part about being a dev...
Satisfaction that people are using you inventions/products to better their lives.
I know it sounds cliché, but software dev is a lot like art.
Guessing, Da Vinci must have felt the same way in the Renaissance.
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Best part about being a (intern) dev?
Has to be being able to eat when I want, get a drink when I want, take a break when I want. But most of all, the godly feeling of being able to dress like a slob and not having to care about looking like one.5 -
Unlimited power to do anything with any electronic devices.
Every movie contains a developer(hacker).
Can make non dev shut up with neat dev terms.
Completely understand silicon valley and Mr.Robot(non dev do not get the things like github, method, etc.),
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Should array indexes begin with 0 or with 1?
To end this discussion I propose they begin with 0.5.6 -
Best part of intern developper : that feel when you present what you've done to the users, and they're fond of it.
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Creating something out of nothing and knowing there's people from all over the world using my creation. One last thing is the developer community is so rich in diversity, walks of life, experience...it's truly awesome to get to know so many people who all program.
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Best thing about being a developer, for me, is that there is always something new to learn and improve upon.
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The best thing about being a dev? The darkness that comes crawling out at night doesn't scare us. Even when we're alone we know we're protected by a magical screen of light.
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lose all interest in gaming, doesn't feel immersive enough anymore as you start realizing it's just a program under execution3
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I didn't have to buy any accounting or payroll or any kind of software for my company as I can make it all by my self.20
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And to quote Terry Pratchett, "it's indoor work with no heavy lifting. Do you really want to be a ploughman like your father?" -
The best part is definitely the feeling when you complete a project and you get something from it.
On the other hand everybody assumes you know how to repair a computer xD1 -
Best part of being a developer...
let you = {
developer: true,
coffee: 9001,
sweatpantsOn: true,
makeCoolShit: function() {
// TODO: make cool shit here
}
};
while(you.coffee > 9000 && you.developer && you.sweatpantsOn) {
you.makeCoolShit();
}1 -
Best part of being a dev is able to do something I love everyday and able to feed myself while doing it.
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In all seriousness, the best part of being a dev is that you learn something new every day. That serves me personally as motivation. There are so many fields of study that embody what a dev is, and because of this, there are a LOT of things that you can do and create. On the other hand, the worst part of being a dev is the fact that we can't do it forever.
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Best part of being a (freelance) dev : working from home, being able to see my newborn son slowly growing up. Not easy to run after clients days after days, but I don't regret the silly project managers, the dumbasses from the marketing, and, gosh, I don't miss the CTOs. :)1
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Best thing about being a dev?
Going on Roblox and some kid claims he was a hacker, then you tell him why he isn't and does not know any of the tech terms you use. Then again why am I playing roblox4 -
My GF doesn't understand anything I say, but she continues to be there to listen to my coding problems.2
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best part of being a dev... job interviews where experience always counts more than education...
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Best part of being a dev is that you get to be part of an amazing community like devRant.
Also the kind of jokes and stories devs get to share and laugh about is beyond anything. 😍 -
To be able to create whatever yo want WITH your own hands (and an IDE). It feels like playing to be a god. You decide what to create and how will it work. Giving life to those lines of coding and seeing how the program starts "breathing". Watching how your creation "takes life" feels incredibly satisfying.
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The best part is the satisfaction you get when you see the thing you've worked on for a long time being used and making people happy.
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Best part of being a dev
When your sysadmin father blocks all social websites and installs keyloggers but you set up linux instead6 -
Best part about being a dev? - Finding little gems of humour in comments and docs.
Why convert HTML to Markdown?
-You have an existing HTML document that needs to be edited by people with good taste.
-You want to store new content in HTML format but edit it as Markdown.
-You want to convert HTML email to plain text email.
-You know a guy who's been converting HTML to Markdown for years, and now he can speak Elvish. You'd quite like to be able to speak Elvish.
-You just really like Markdown.
from https://github.com/thephpleague/... -
Best part of being a dev? Converting coffee into code. ☕
Worst part? Dealing with others' shitty code everyday.1 -
the best part?
90% of the time i've to deal with a computer
the worst part?
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The feeling that every work day is composed of new challenges that help you to grow and learn more. Also, how cool is it when your code works as intended and with no ramifications on the first try? Last but not least how many people can say that what they do at work is their true passion?
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Best thing for me is being in an environment where I am not only able but encouraged to learn every day. Also sleeping in and working from home are nice bonuses ;)
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To be able to work from anywhere on this planet as long as there is internet connection.
Travel the world while working, who else could do that without being told when to be where?2 -
Best part of being a dev: when I try to explain what I'm doing to non-dev, they look at me as if was talking about black magic. A mix of fear and admiration.
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Best part about being a dev? The feeling of progression. Every line you write will have an immediate impact to the outcome and you can clearly see where are you heading. Also being able to create something you've imagined.
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That feeling you get when you realize that most people don't know what your doing and assume you're "hacking the mainframe"
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Open inspector from Chrome in front of your friends and proceed to deleting annoying ads or bypassing scripts like a boss.1
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The ability to create something, something useful. Software is the intersection of artistry and invention. Honestly, why do anything else?
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Best part of being a dev?
Fixing everyone's printer, malware, and Windows update issues. Love that!4 -
I get to unleash my creativity.
My classmates && teachers fear me because they think I will screw up their computer/smartphone if they make me unhappy, gives me a virtual protection field from my friends bullshit.
I look cool doing being a dev.
And finally, learning to be a dev improves my logical thinking skills.1 -
where should I start, having something different to work on weekly, being able to work from home, alot of income possibilities, can easily start your own businesses, compared to other jobs a good community, if there isn't something you want made you can make it, and if you can think of an idea for a website or program you can make it.
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Whenever there is a problem I need to solve. I can solve it. Want regular news for dwarf fortress, build an app for it. Bang. Done. That is the best thing about it in my eyes. The same as a carpenter can feel great about putting together a quality cupboard and using it himself.
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My favourite part is the community. From places like devRant to people commenting on GitHub projects and pitching in where they want to. It's like a family, somewhat.2
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Being able to make tools that I can use to make tools that I can use to make tools that I can use to make...
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My colleagues don't look at me weird when I reply to "so what did you get up to in your week off" with "played the new World of Warcraft expansion launch".
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It has to be working from home without any schedule and being paid ridicously more than your country's average salary, doing something you enjoy. Oh, and I don't even need a degree. :)
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Witnessing something take shape that was once only an idea, and finally reach completion becoming some service or tool, an actual thing that you can use to get stuff done.
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Being able to work from where ever i want, at best from home. To be there when my kids wake up after doing an all nighter.
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When the project officially closes as successful, and you see it in action in the production environment, and leadership and customers are satisfied.
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After my Holiday i was totaly rested... But a week ago three collegues and myself started a side project... It is soo hard to get up these days!
Best and worst part of being a dev?
The side projects -
Listening to clients & producing goods for a ridiculously cheap price & still manage to get yelled at. I swear everyone wants shit done for free. That's the amazing part of being a developer :)1
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You know that Monday morning feeling, that dread in your stomach when Sunday rolls around? That knot in your stomach knowing you've got to drag your ass out of bed in the morning back to the daily grind?
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Best part for me is when you see the final product. I do not mean once you're done working on the entire project (which is never true, always more to do! xD) but when you add a feature and it works.
Actually seeing it work, that gives me such a good, fulfilling feeling.
That has always been what attracted me to programming, or.. the main thing. -
I can make sales people's lives easier or harder based on how I prioritise tasks... They learn to use manners when they realise my power!
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Best part of being a dev is knowing only so many people know how to do the things you do. And it's not that hard really, but you know... people.
So there'll still be demand for my work in the foreseeable future. And little competition.2 -
Knowing where to touch to get rid those annoying layered popups (like subscribe, disable adblock), menu bars, etc that appear when browsing (mostly) news sites.
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Creating something out of, literally, nothing... You just need your brain and a computer, and it doesn't have to be the fastest or the newest.2
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The best part is knowing that the code you are writing today will some day help thousands and millions of people to find old friends, plan trips, meet that special someone, buy stuff online or even experience what it would be like to live in another world.
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Best part of being a dev?
Knowing that given enough time, you could essentially get your computer to do anything you want; and if it doesn't, it's because you made a mistake somewhere and not because it just didn't want to!
Before my dev days (when I wasn't allowed to install any software) wrote an excel macro that would email a colleague with a coffee request after someone challenged me saying I couldn't get the computer to make me coffee, hehe...2 -
Well, for me being a dev or at least a hobby-dev is like reading and writing a book. Each like of code holds a thought as each sentence holds a story. The more you write, the better is the result. It's the feeling that you can do art in multiple ways.
Once you start, you fall down a deep and unknown rabbit hole, yet it's a slow fall, with a lot of obstacles in the way. You'll get bruises. Break something even. In the end you'll die. That doesn't matter though, because what's left after you is the path you chose and it's open for anyone who dares to follow you.
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When you finally get to sign a project off as finished, after the client has changed the goal posts 50+ times.
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Best part of being a dev?
The ability to browser through the file system of online c/c++ compilers 😅 -
Creating something that doesnt exist. Publishing it. Gettting passive income. Getting drinks and treating your only limited resource as you like, forever.
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Being a modern day sorcerer, capable of building exotic creations through sheer force of will, constantly learning and advancing the craft
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For me it's just this one thing.
Knowing what i do can actually make a difference , that it can change things.
On such a huge scale. No other job can take down huge systems and cost millions or even billions if done wrong.
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Best part of being a dev?
Not there yet, but as long as one has the knowledge, one can create anything, and make people feel connected to their creation.
At least that's what I'm aiming at1 -
Being able to regularly participate in an activity that most members of my species are barely capable of! And have it usually compile successfully.
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The access to knowledge online is really good. You can pretty much teach yourself everything you need to get a job that would need a degree.1
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The best part of being a Dev is it teaches you to live your life the way you want.
You are a programming language and all the functions inside that language defines you. -
Best parts of being a dev.
Getting paid to use your brain solving problems.
Trying to explain what you do to the elderly.
Excuses for taking a break and talking out loud.
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The best part about being a developer, is building something cool, and other developers telling you how cool it is (and suggesting improvements)
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I could slack around all the time and then switch to "the devil" mode in the last week. Oh and I could use mumbo jumbo words to confuse the shit outta my clients(and boss). Plus I could automate maintenance job and get so much time at 'hand'(quite literally)
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When a severe outage/screw-up happens or when an insane request comes through and the only solution is some adhoc coding... the best part of being a dev: 1. being the one they turn to in those dark times, and 2. the self confidence boost when you alone have saved the day. It's thankless but those times make up for it.
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Best part of being a dev:
You can tell people you can't do something or it will take twice as long, and they don't have a clue as to why because you are a wizard in their eyes -
Anyone else gotten really good at the screenshot -> crop -> send to friend workflow on devRant?
Why is save image disabled? Am I missing something stupid easy here?!
@dfox Please help make this process more streamlined if this is working as intended!7 -
The ideal and presumption to be able to help whoever in their work and stuff.
Being able to save them frustration and time....
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best thing being a dev?
working remote and thus having meetings with clients on visio wearing a fancy shirt while naked bottom.1 -
The feeling of relief when you fix the one problem that's been bothering you for hours on end, makes you feel amazing
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What's best about being a dev?
that most of our work is done by the skillful use of google and we still seem like geniuses to "ordinary" folks.
Therefore to answer the question: http://lmgtfy.com//... -
Best part about being a dev: Encountering problems and being able to fix what I find.
Having the flexibility to reason through solutions and occasionally write my own. -
The best part of being a dev is that I can write useless piece of code like a profanity retweeter bot or a script for auto replying Facebook birthday wishes and have a ton of fun making them
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Watching CI builds run your tests and then deploy the passed version to thousands of users....oh, and the free hardware :)
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Get a bug report, look at the code: it was fix a month ago by... Me. The look on the face of my colleague like I'm a wizard or something: priceless1
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The exhilarating moment of truth, when you build your project after making huge changes during refactoring some vital component and it compiles.
I also like the feeling of creating something. You can start a new project and after a few hours work you have made a skeleton that has some functionality. Only with the power of your mind!
It's the nearest thing to magic! -
1) own work hours.
2) good salary.
3) programming is fun.
and most of all.
we can make an impact in other peoples life. -
Having the capability to work from home (or anywhere really) with little to no hindrance of my progress or my ability to communicate with my co-workers
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That feeling and satisfaction that you're finally don't your project, just before realizing that your not done
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Seeing and building something that only previously existed as an idea or on paper. For me, that's the best thing.
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Getting to mess and tinker with the latest tech before it even hits the market, easy to find a job that pays well, and of course getting to pretty much dress as casual as you want ( or not at all if you work from home !)
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Possessiveness over one's code is more dangerous than possessiveness over his girl - codes are getting closer to heart
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The best part of being a dev is being able to know how to join the right pieces together for building anything without reinventing the wheel1
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Best part of being a dev? Being able to build programs and websites which is my hobby, for money. Also, me and my girlfriend met because I was the only website builder at my school at the time, and she needed a website for a project. At this time, we're almost 3 years together 😊 I'd call that pretty damn awesome
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Best part about being a dev is easily the fact than when something about a product bothers me, I can either build a better product or stuff it!
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Working in the phrase "Tighten up the graphics on level three" into as many serious meetings as possible.
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Best part of being a dev: seeing my code grow, take shape and become robust, line after line, refactor after refactor.
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