Disappointment thread

Share your disappointments, progriders. Large or small.

I'll start with two:

1) In my career, I didn't end up doing simulations of interesting systems, just conversions of enterprise data between systems whose architects didn't talk to each other and liked padding their resumes with obscure data formats.

2) The Java annotation @VisibleForTesting looks cool the first time you see it, because you think ``Oh, cool. Automatic reflected access unrestriction under my testing framework!''. But actually it doesn't do anything at all. Shit, man, if you want me to comment // public, not private, for injection in integration tests I can do that already.

>>2
You might like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. It's set in the future instead of the past and has battles between ideologies instead of nations. Also the cutscenes are cool, if you're able to put up with ancient graphics.

>>9
My beard won't either, but I console myself with the fact that it's so patchy that people think I'm disfigured or something.

>>11
Extreme programming is the best way to learn to code, because nothing teaches you pitfalls and barriers like sprinting headlong into them.