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Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by arkh on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:55AM (#16384448)
In 4 words: maintenance programming and debugging.

Most clerical jobs don't have a lot of surprises hidden in the middle of some undocumented feature. And things are not improving with the multiplication of dependence on SaaS and build and deploy mechanism.

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Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by seba_dos1 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @12:28PM (#16385789)
While I can agree with maintenance, I usually find debugging the most exciting part of software development. Problem solving is the essence of this job and I don't really understand what keeps people that hate it in this field.
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