What is the saddest part of being a programmer?

My biggest frustration has been the lack of feedback from users. As all developers know, there is little difference between an application doing what the user wants and an application not being used. Neither case generates bugs and feature requests. Perhaps there’s more evidence-of-use with web apps, but I’ve not lived there.

I prefer to think they’re just good applications that stand the test of time, but…. Indirect evidence is all I have, from the literature, conferences or the occasional comment from support or sales.

Annoying or scamming your own users in order to get funded. Too big relyness on marketologists in order to getting anyone use your app. Too big involedness of governments which citizens seems to be your users.

We look at a monitor screen 8 hrs+ a day and think that's living.

Looking at a lathe for the same amount of hours is better? At least a screen can not shoot at worker with piece of metal or cut off some parts of worker's body if some negligence has been committed.

No girlfriends?