Do we even like programming?

Usually you make a pole when you get excited.

I expect to soon see a poll-emic from Moti.

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Originally Posted by EntityX

When you create a new thread there is an option for creating a poll. Just step through the procedure. You check the box, Post a Poll? and select how many poll options. You then have to be brave and click submit new thread and it will give you a screen so you can fill in what the question for the poll will be and the different poll options.

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Nah, that's not how they put up the pole to carry the electricity wires outside my building!!

Moti, it's a long process involving steel. First they dig up a tubewell kinda hole into the ground, something that's about a foot in diameter but many feet in depth. They then insert a wooden staff at the centre of this deep hole. Then they pour molten steel into the hole. Have you seen someone making candy? Nope? You should, because it's almost the same. Only the candy is bigger and you couldn't lick it.

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Originally Posted by kevininstructor
their customer is happy with what they have provided them

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Originally Posted by wossname

That has never happened in the entire history of mankind, included unrecorded prehistory. The guy who invented the wheel was told to take it back and make it out of a granite instead because the customer didn't like the colour.

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I am sorry to hear that but I have bad penty of satisfied customers

Originally Posted by kevininstructor
along with the developer knowing they did a great job

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Originally Posted by wossname

You can "know" you did a great job all you want, but what if nobody else acknowledges it? You can only get so far on self-satisfaction.

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Personally speaking we have had plenty of acknolegement of what was provided to customers but will agree that there are countless times that they do not acknowlege what we did too.

He's a cat. They're always bitter.


Oh wait....I seem to vaguely remember him saying that he wasn't actually a cat one time....perhaps he was serious?

I have found in my programming years that customers can be very happy with what I provide or very unhappy and in either case, it has so little to do with the code that I probably could have given them a blank floppy disk with the same result.

What makes a customer happy is engagement and empathy. Yes, traits most devs aren't know for. But master them and you'll succeed.

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Originally Posted by shaggist

he's a cat. They're always bitter.

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I'm NOT BITTER!!! :mad: :bitter: :mad:

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Originally Posted by Lord_Rat

I have found in my programming years that customers can be very happy with what I provide or very unhappy and in either case, it has so little to do with the code that I probably could have given them a blank floppy disk with the same result.

What makes a customer happy is engagement and empathy. Yes, traits most devs aren't know for. But master them and you'll succeed.

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That is so totally true!! Nothing much I can really add. It's good to see that others see that, as well.

I really like coding, almost 13 years now. Wish I could like my job as much.
Had a user tell me once, “you gave me just what I asked for, but it not what I need”.
Learned to asking more question after that, user do not really know what they want.:ehh:

It happens to me. Sitting in my chair doing something then take a quick break then I felt boredom (popping to my head "do I really like programming?") but then I continue coding even though it take me a lot of time to figure out on a process that im working :D.

Maybe just gotta visit my hamster and talk to them :D.