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debo_today at 3:19 AM4 repliesview on HN

I've been a software "engineer" for over 20 years, and my personal experience is that software engineers are basically never happy.


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tbrownawtoday at 4:21 AM

> personal experience is that software engineers are basically never happy.

Being happy means:

- you don't feel the need to automate more manual tasks (you lack laziness)

- you don't feel the need to make your system faster (you lack impatience)

- you don't feel the need to make your system better (you lack hubris)

So basically, happiness is a Sin.

macintuxtoday at 3:46 AM

True enough. The world is never as predictable as the computers we program, and the computers we program are never as predictable as we feel they should be.

teejtoday at 4:06 AM

I’ve used AWS for almost 20 years and I can tell you it’s more stable than Azure

VirusNewbietoday at 3:59 AM

Plenty of happy engineers at the other cloud. :)