Peter Welch personal blog
Programming Sucks
E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, 1 [1] you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.”
- Points
- 314
- HN comments
- 78
- Submissions
- 3
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- 74 commenters
Software EngineeringLife, Learning & Writing2014
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2014 | Programming Sucks by sramsay | 314 | 37 |
| Jul 19, 2018 | Programming Sucks (2014) by fagnerbrack | 91 | 29 |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Programming Sucks by tomasreimers | 55 | 12 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 103 Hacker News comments by 74 different people, from Apr 2014 to Oct 2026.
Most recent:
- jason_oster · Oct 27, 2026
- KronisLV · Sep 13, 2026
- Terr_ · Sep 10, 2026
- jason_oster · Jul 26, 2026
- dktp · May 7, 2026
- gostsamo · Jan 28, 2026
