Productivity in the handset coding world

[cjsmith]

me: On the positive side, you'll never guess how much I accomplished today at work.
me: I made a library.
me: AND I linked to it.
Rob: Whoa.
me: I can see you laughing. Stop laughing. I mean it.
me: THEN I created a program that does nothing.
me: And I made the first program run the second one.
me: No laughing!
me: And my next job is to figure out how to package the two things together.
me: The program using the library, that is, and the program that does nothing.
Rob: You could make a third program that does nothing and run it too!
me: Oh, I already had that. How'd you think I got the program that does nothing? It's a copy.
me: I wish I were joking. It's literally true.
Rob: You better plan some serious downtime. You've cracked.

It's true, though. I'm not making any of this up.

Comments

[allanh.livejournal.com]

I. Believe. You.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

that doesn't mean you haven't cracked :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. :)

[wordripples.livejournal.com]

laughing so hard I'm crying

[nosrednayduj]

Hey, I was totally thrilled when I made an installer that installed only one file, using a new software package. "Hello World" is a very important program!

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

I would never try and explain the excitement of fixing an obscure programming bug to a non-programmer. I've tried before and they just stare at you. If I was a police officer I might appear in Cops! - but I doubt our series Programmers! will have much of an audience... (Yes, I did that deliberately - so sue me :-)

[brooksmoses]

Saw this, thought of you: http://vilvo.kapsi.fi/kuvat/symbian_debugging.jpg

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Maybe lighting candles to the deities of Symbian *would* help! I have a bad feeling that the star should be inverted in that case.

[gorillashaman.livejournal.com]

sounds like an embedded system job.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Very like.

[airporter.livejournal.com]

You get made to produce something that's nothing?






Seriously cool. Kinda.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Well, ideally it gets better as I work on it more. Ideally.

[airporter.livejournal.com]

Understood, but the fact that you get paid to make nothing work first is totally wick.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If I'm incompetent enough, I'll get paid more for making nothing work. (The worse I am at my job, the longer it'll take me to make the program do something.) Isn't that superb? :-)