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.

>>21
It's been an eventful 15 years for graphics.
Was it really released in 1999? I graduated high school in 1999 and I thought I remembered playing it a lot before that.

>>22
The thing I liked about it was that you can really get into the math. In fact, the help has some of the equations they used in the game, to determine energy loss due to inefficiency, for example. If you like micromanagement, it doesn't get better than that.