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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Devs are famously bad at estimating how long a software project will take."

No, highly complex creative work is inherently extremely difficult to estimate.

Akshually... I'm on a dev team where about 60% of us are diagnosed with ADHD. So, at least in our case, it's both.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

If we didn't have ADHD, we wouldn't be able to do the work regardless.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

We’re the only ones that can get hyper focused and also hyper fixated on why a switch statement is failing when it includes a for loop until finding out there’s actually a compiler bug, and if you leave a space after the bracket it somehow works correctly.

That was a fun afternoon.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Gross, which compiler was that?

I managed to make an assembler segfault with seven bytes

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