This is a list of the most common sounds you’ll hear from a bunch of developers in a programming environment with a little explanation of each sound.
– “Aaaaaah!”: Someone finally found the dumb reason why something was acting weird.
– “Hmmmm”: A new thing to solve, a new programming challenge. Good.
– “Grrrrrrr!”: A new bug has just been reported by Mr. Stick-up-his-ass QA guy.
– “Huh??!” or “What the …!!!”: Something weird/unexpected just happened. No need to be alarmed yet.
– “Bang!” (on keyboard or desk) or sudden swearing: PC crashed before the developer got to save his work, or something of that caliber.
– “Zzzzzzz”: Someone just fell asleep on his keyboard.
– “Oops!”: Nothing big, a minor manipulation error, something small deleted or the like.
– “Oh Shit!”: Quite a big error, but something that will eventually pass, most of the times.
– Sudden silence (coupled with a slightly detectable shaking of the hands and small streams of cold sweat): Really big screwup, time to panic and start looking for a job.
– Machine gun sound: Run! One of the developers’ stress level most probably maxed out, and he’s on a de-stress killing spree.
These are the sounds that came to mind while writing this, I’m sure there are others I forgot to mention, if you remember any other ones, you’re welcome to add them in the comments section.
ta7sheesh!
i just remembered “el user Tanjara”
and what say for one shaking his head 😀 ?
@Orangina, loool…
@Tom, A developer shaking his head has most probably just opened a file with really shitty code 😉