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Software Development Is a Place Where Nightmares Are Real
And boogyman is your boss
On some projects, trying to create software is the ultimate terror
Junior Developers can lack the imagination to imagine their nightmares become can become real. Senior developers don’t need to imagine because it’s they have seen it. Once you have seen something bad happen, it’s easy to imagine it happening again.
Even when we can imagine nightmares, we can feel that terrible things happen to other people but never happened to me.
You might take a shortcut through the crocodile invested river 99 times without being bitten, and this reinforces that it's a good thing to do. On the 100th time, a Croc jumps up and bites your head off.
Salem’s Lot
I watched Salem’s Lot as an 8-year-old and it gave me nightmares. It’s a story about vampires written by Stephen King. There is a scene where a small boy vampire comes to the window and slowly knocks. The victims cannot stop themselves from opening the door and they get turned into a vampire
Watch the trailer, if you dare
The fear was if this happened, I wouldn’t be able to stop it. Unless you are a heavy sleeper and don’t wake up to knocking. It makes being a vampire sound boring waiting outside windows, hoping to wake people up. Imagine all the failed devouring.
Once I had seen the film, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I knew what could happen.
Before I looked at the window and saw a window, now I looked at the window and saw the entry point for the vampire.
It’s easy to imagine something bad happening once you have seen it or something similar happen before.
Nightmares happen
If something can happen, it might happen and you need to be prepared for it.
