My Biggest Regret as a Programmer

Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by smikhanov on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @06:25PM (#11442697)

Granted, in a decade, if you'll still be in this profession, you'll remember J2EE and XML and Node and npm and pip and git and Golang and JavaScript and code polish and functions-vs-methods debate as tiny specks on what actually constitutes you career. The author of the linked article tries analyzing his entire life from a standpoint of being a programmer, and your comment analyzes last few years of your life staring at /r/programming.

Can't believe this comment made it to the top.

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Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by dinkumthinkum on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @06:35PM (#11442787)

I agree completely with you. I think the answer is you can't help some people. It's just sort of a myopic view. Could you imagine in 50 years someone asks you what regret you had about your career and you said "that I ever used node that one week in 2015"? I mean, wow.

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Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by pekk on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:34PM (#11444263)

If you spent a couple years building everything you could on top of Node and then realized you completely disagreed with some of its basic design then that would be a memorable experience.

This may be hard to understand if you are still in love with Javascript.

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Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by aplummer on Thursday April 07, 2016 @09:27AM (#11447035)

I don't know, I see disliking my old work as a good sign of engineering growth, and hating old decisions as personal / professional work...

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Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by saeranv on Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:48AM (#11445001)

Or, it could be an indication that they've had a pretty good career with only trivial regrets. That's how I read it.

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