Have you changed your mind lately? On what?

Emile

Admitting to being wrong isn't easy, but it's something we want to encourage.

So ... were you convinced by someone's arguments lately? Did you realize a heated disagreement was actually a misunderstanding? Here's the place to talk about it!

Admitting to being wrong isn't easy, but it's something we want to encourage.

So ... were you convinced by someone's arguments lately? Did you realize a heated disagreement was actually a misunderstanding? Here's the place to talk about it!

Can you explain in more detail? I'm interested in learning about the downsides of programming jobs (which have been strongly promoted around here).

I work in video games, so my experience isn't at all typical of programming more generally. The big issues are that:

Development priorities and design are driven by marketing.
Lots of time is spent doing throwaway work for particular demos. I (and many others) wasted a couple weeks hacking together a scripted demo for E3 that will never be seen again.
The design for my portion of the project has changed directions numerous times, and each new version of the feature has been implemented in a rush, so we still have bits of code from five iterations ago hang

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10Viliam_Bur14y

Seconded, more explanation is needed. My experience with the best software practices is the following: * When a deadline is near, all best software practices are thrown out of the window. Later in the project, a deadline is always near. * While the spirit of the best software practices is ignored, it is still possible to follow their letter religiously, and be proud of it. This frequently leads to promotion.

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