The Perils of Developers Hooking Up 278
jammag writes "Who better for a developer to love than another developer? Yet as a veteran coder describes, it's not always a good idea for a programmer to fall for another programmer. He describes his experience observing — and getting partially pulled into — a romance within a development team. Part of the problem, perhaps, is that some developers spend so much time buried in code that, well, they quickly find themselves out of their league. Then again, why not love among the code?"
Old wisdom (Score:4, Funny)
This is nothing more than the old wisdom of not dating anyone who is exactly like you. You need someone that shares little same interestst, but who can fullfil things you dont like or do. Yes, you can have one night stands between developers, but then again, majority of female programmers are ugly and insecure as hell, so you might want to get a normal person anyway.
You've changed... (Score:5, Funny)
The perils of programmers marrying (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You've changed... (Score:5, Funny)
(mumble) perl necklace (/mumble)
Re:The perils of programmers marrying (Score:5, Funny)
Babies have scope creep written all over them.
Re:You've changed... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The perils of programmers marrying (Score:5, Funny)
But if you have nine people involved, it only takes one month! Or so my manager told me once.
"why not love among the code?" (Score:5, Funny)
Because you'll get the keyboards all sticky!
Re:The perils of programmers marrying (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait until you hear about how long you've got to support it. And you go to jail if you EOL it!
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Funny)
It's a badly written work of fiction. I'm guessing it got posted on Datamation because even Harlequin has standards.
Re:You've changed... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm gonna violate array bounds like nobody's business.
You won't even have time to garbage collect before I'm dumping core.
Re:The perils of programmers marrying (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You've changed... (Score:4, Funny)
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep
Re:You've changed... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe you just need to spend a bit more time initializing your pointer.
the PERLs of Developers Hooking-Up (Score:2, Funny)
It all starts-out with that flirtatious morning JAVA, and soon, it's on to PERL necklaces, and RUBY on rings.
Re:You've changed... (Score:5, Funny)
If you are trying to make a joke, atleast do it properly. Use a semicolon instead of the comma, and it makes sense in both english and bash.
Re:Old wisdom (Score:5, Funny)
I am a mechanical engineer, wife is electrical.
So, she brought the spark with her and you gave her steaming hot sex in exchange?
Son of Software (Score:4, Funny)
My mother was a web-app, my father was mobile. I am the result of a one-time backend synchronization.
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Re:You've changed... (Score:4, Funny)
if you just unmount, sleep without at least some touch, you probably getting an access denied when you try to logon the next time...
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Re:Old wisdom (Score:5, Funny)
> I am a mechanical engineer, wife is electrical.
Wow, you are SO in the wrong field. I am a software engineer; my wife is biological.
Re:You've changed... (Score:5, Funny)
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep
And remember, folks: using sudo is NOT OK!
Re:Old wisdom (Score:5, Funny)
one of our dev teams is over half female and none of them are ugly or insecure
From the waist up, right? How is life in Thailand?
It Was A Documented Affair (Score:3, Funny)
When I was in the USAF in the '80s I was maintaining a system written by some folks from Sandia Labs in Albequerque. Apparently, two of them were having a bit of an affair (when they visited our site, at least) and they'd taken to leaving notes for each other in the code comments. While those comments didn't help me resolve issues with the code (and there were quite a few) they did occasionally provide some welcome humorous relief while searching for bugs. Especially when a few were found and we tried to match them up without any context or sequence info...
Good thing their spouses weren't cleared to see the code...
Re:Old wisdom (Score:5, Funny)
She hates me, I hate her.
Re:You've changed... (Score:3, Funny)
Why don't you ever comment anymore?
Because you don't commit.
Re:You've changed... (Score:5, Funny)
Why don't you ever comment anymore?
Because you don't commit.
Maybe I'd be more willing to commit if you'd be more willing to fork.
Re:Old wisdom (Score:0, Funny)
one of our dev teams is over half female and none of them are ugly or insecure
From the waist up, right? How is life in Thailand?
No, female from the waist down - they are very flat chested. If they had big boobs they'd never have gone into programming.
Re:Old wisdom (Score:5, Funny)
If they had big boobs they'd never have gone into programming.
Really? Because almost all of the programmers that I know have enormous, hairy boobs. Doesn't seem to have impeded those guys in the least.
Re:Even a dog knows... (Score:3, Funny)
Even a dog knows...not to shit where they eat.
I beg to differ, and so does Matt Inman it would seem. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox
Re:Old wisdom (Score:0, Funny)
I would go for a walk and she would go into the kitchen and make something.
Better be a sandwich.