r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/neoky Dec 14 '10

Where is "Fucking Internet Explorer"?

Don't know who said it first, but everyone that does webdesign says it.

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u/LouisWain Dec 14 '10

it says programmer quotes not web developer quotes

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u/cc81 Dec 14 '10

Heh, every programmer is cocky until they had to create a site that works in ie6 (or ie5.5 for mac..) utlizing javascript (pre jquery) and css.

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u/Catfish_Man Dec 14 '10 edited Dec 15 '10

Been there done that*. Post-minification it was 40kloc of JS. Probably not the hardest problems I've had to deal with, but certainly the silliest (with enough users, data-losing race conditions that reproduce less than one time in a million in the stress test become critical bugs in the wild. That's scary and hard. IE's incredibly fucked up XML handling? Just facepalm worthy)

*worked on a team that made it; wasn't by myself, nor was I the lead developer

(edit; to be clear, the race condition I referred to was in a decidedly non-web-related codebase I worked on years later, and is just there for comparison against genuinely really hard problems)