Adobe Programmer Syndrome (APS)

A programmer, or group of programmers, more interested in tacking more and more "bloatware" features to software, rather then cleaning up and optimizing existing code. Usually using the excuse "Computers are faster now, they can handle it"

Any real programmer knows performance > features and splash screens are soooo 2001.

Timeline of Photoshop suffering from Adobe Programmer Syndrome (APS)

load times on top performance computers.

Version Number
5 5 Seconds
6 10 Seconds

7 15 Seconds

CS 30 Seconds
CS2 20 Seconds
CS3 20 Seconds
CS4 35 Seconds

by dmangstar September 24, 2009

Trivia Programmer

These programmers don't know actually how to write code from scratch or engineer anything; They watch youtube videos online on leetcode and the dry principle 100 times over. They can be intern vloggers, or some layed off PR intern from a big corporation. They commit to open source projects (documentation) and have a soft filter background pfp (With a bland tshirt, short hair or extremely long hair, it's binary; And talk in a very monotone soft voice). Their daily routine consists of waking up, reviewing all the trivia for their language, going into work and not being able to debug anything. However they can talk up a storm, just not actually be the engineers they're required to be. They job hop to the next job before anyone can figure out they actually don't know what they're doing. In meetings they will spit out all the trivia they know, keeping up the act long enough so the manager doesn't notice anything.

Person A: "You remember Jerry? On lunch yesterday he was talking about how he made project x and y in this framework, and how our systems can be completely re-written and improved within a month on this new cool framework he couldn't stop talking about"

Person B: "Oh yea I remember him, he seemed knowledgeable, he passed our medium and hard questions easily."

Person A: "Yea, haha thought the same thing. Turns out he just sat around doing leetcode all day, but I don't know if he even knows what a breakpoint is"

Person B: "His github was really nice!"

Person A: "Well he couldn't debug anything, I ended up doing all the work for him. I think he was just a Trivia Programmer"

Person B: "Really?"

Person A: "Yea he kept asking the same questions, didn't write anything down, never saw any improvements even though I was helping him. I think he just new a lot of trivia, but he can't code"

Person B: "Oh a Trivia Programmer"

Person A: "Yea, last I checked he's making lofi hiphop soft filter videos online about the dry principle. I don't think he applied it in any of his work"

Person B: "His latest video is 'Former Senior Startup Executive Developer Advice' and 'Doing Leetcode As An Intern'"

by cynical idiot May 25, 2023

visual basic programmer

someone who *thinks* they know how to program, but in reality is pretty average... almost always don't really understand the inner workings of a computer... they get scared by things like call stacks, registers, pointers, assembly, or anything that has to do with the guts of a computers...

also, they are generally not smart enough to do embedded development...

embedded developer: i just hacked the can bus in my car... used a philips tja1050 transceiver, paired it up to a mcf5485 coldfire, developed the logger and gauge renderer in C (gasp!) using codewarrior and spat the image data out to the tft in my car to have virtual gauges on everything!

what have you developed lately?

visual basic programmer: an ftp server...

embedded developer: oh... cool...

by champski April 3, 2009

java programmer

The most insulting thing you could possibly say to a Finnish programmer.

(a)Did you write this pile of junk?
(b)Yes
(a)You fucking java programmer!
(b)*sulk*

by not_mm January 11, 2005

real programmer

Real programmer are:

- programmers that code machine code/assembly

- programmers that can real code of programming language that he did not know

- programmers that can learn new programming languages in 10 minutes

- programmers that use C/C++ and other low-level programming languages.

- programmers that do not use an IDE such as Visual Studio, instead, they use cat, vi, nano or other command line text editors

You are not a real programmer? You are still writing Visual Basic.

by SM++ May 24, 2009

Computer programmer

A job that will be useless when the end of the world is coming.

Ok we need to group together.. we have a nurse ,a farmer ,a weapons expert and 2 survivalists.. ... and what can you do sir ?? Iam computer programmer...I can help you install windows 98 and help you with slow download speeds. ... all break out in laughter as they leave him behind for the aliens .

by Upyerkilt333 January 30, 2022

Rockstar Programmer

A rockstar programmer is a programmer who becomes popular not because of technical achievement, but rather by the volume of fanboys who blindly consume his/her products. He or she poses in numerous techie magazines, giving interviews about nothing but Web 2.0 poetry, and attending totally useless "conventions".

DHH is a rockstar programmer.

by Pilkington December 8, 2006