The programming and engineering skills with the highest salaries

Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by dkyc on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:17AM (#9197186)

"Everyday you sit down, put on your headphones and open your integrated developer environment."

Right there, the first sentence. Hilarious. I think it takes the cake for the quickest sentence that gives away that the author is no programmer himself. (Not that he needed to be to write this article)

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by puranjay on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:43AM (#9197343)

How is that even relevant?

He is reporting about programmer salaries, not tutoring a college course on programming.

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by mawburn on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:18AM (#9197188)

But, that's exactly what I do?

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by aguywithamum on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:20AM (#9197201)

Yeah, what's wrong with IDE's? (Insert joke about thinking he was referring to sitting down or putting headphones on.)

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by dkyc on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:19AM (#9197197)

I'm referring to the choice of words. E.g., I never heard anybody call their IDE/Editor/emacs setup casually "integrated developer environment".

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by aguywithamum on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:21AM (#9197211)

I think it could also be for people that aren't programmers that may read the article. But, yeah, I've never heard anyone use the full name.

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by david on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:58AM (#9197453)

I don't think I've heard anyone at all call it an "Integrated Developer Environment", instead of "Integrated Development Environment".

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by aguywithamum on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:12AM (#9197532)

Oh, that's true! I hadn't even noticed the difference. I've never heard anyone use the phrase "integrated developer environment" either.

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by lucozade on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:27AM (#9197608)

Maybe it's implying that real programmers have some sort of cyberpunk synapse plugin

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by vinceguidry on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:54AM (#9197424)

Could very well be the style guide at work here. If I had to write an article for public consumption, I would avoid techy acronyms as well.

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by astine on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:52AM (#9197777)

He could have said "code editor". I think everyone would have understood that and it wouldn't have sounded weird to programmers.

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by pencilcheck on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:47AM (#9210289)

And he even got it wrong, it's integrated development environment

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Re:The programming and engineering skills with the highest s... by rilita on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:36AM (#9197302)

If you turn off your computer or ever intentionally close your IDE, you are doing it wrong.

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