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.

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It has been a very uneventful 15 years with regards to novelties. In fact, it has been an uneventful 30 years with regards to novelties.

It's been an eventful 30 years of commercialization and standardization, which is nice (although now we're stuck with all the wrong "winners").

The internet existed just fine in 1999, and before that.

Perhaps you mean the web. The web (with regards to standards and programs implementing those standards) has stabalized somewhat so that's nice too.