Show HN: devsigh.com - post all your stories of developer sigh

http://www.devsigh.com

by chargrilled • 14 years ago

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chargrilled3• 14 years ago

Hi everyone. I built this over the course of the last week as an exercise in learning Django.

I noticed my friends and I tended to share lots of stories about our work-related development woe on IRC and thought it would be good to create a place to share the stories!

Let me know if you've got any feedback.

mangala2• 14 years ago

This is my new favorite site. Thank you.

jowiar• 14 years ago

(1) Add job listings to submission page

(2) $

derrida• 14 years ago

This will work.

Lewton• 14 years ago

The voting system is quite.... Completely broken :) While the marker disappears, you can still keep clicking, voting as much as you'd like

bmalee5• 14 years ago

It's a feature! ¬_¬

chargrilled3• 14 years ago

I think i've fixed that now!

Fingers crossed.

nbpoole• 14 years ago

Not quite. Your rate limiting seems to be cookie based, which makes it easy for someone to circumvent just by replaying their initial request (or by deleting the cookie you set).

dmils4• 14 years ago

Reminds me of Clients From Hell (www.ClientsFromHell.net). And a text only version of Dilbert. Nice!

icebraining• 14 years ago

There's also Not Always Right[1], but it's not tech related (and they're stories, not just sighs).

[1] http://notalwaysright.com/

pja• 14 years ago

Told during the final stretch of a four month project that all the colors in the app had to be readable for people with Color Blindness

Surely in these days of accessibility awareness this ought to be a design goal by default unless otherwise stated?

coderdude3• 14 years ago

I'm more surprised that people actually expect us to have this in the back of our minds at all times. There's a reason they didn't go replacing all stairs with ramps.

enf• 14 years ago

Architects spend a lot of time worrying about accessibility requirements. Accessibility, fire safety, and car parking are the major factors that shape buildings.

justinlau• 14 years ago

TRWTF is that this a site like this already and is hillllarious: http://www.thedailywtf.com/

Just kidding. I suppose there's a niche for shortform "sighs" too.

rsbrown• 14 years ago

In the annals of innefectual, misdirected, passive-aggressive online nerdrage this system of anonymous, groupthink-driven schadenfreude really takes the cake.

Of course, here I am shaking my fist on Hacker News so who am I to criticize?

guard-of-terra4• 14 years ago

Every one of those are about "I should have confronted the decision because I know better but I'll shut up and write to devsigh instead"

Because you have no spine? Pathetic.

bmalee5• 14 years ago

Firstly, ranting online and confronting the problem directly are not actually mutually exclusive. Secondly, in the real world sometimes a problem just isn't worth addressing; no matter how hard you try, sales/marketing/your manager/the CEO/the users just won't understand, so just work around it and let off steam online instead.

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