我仍然对以下的一些误解感到困扰——尽管我知道这些误解是正确的，但我仍然试图抓住它们不放:

All stakeholders will make decisions about software design objectively. Those that aren't embroiled in writing the code make all sorts of decisions based entirely on emotion that don't always make sense to us developers. Project budgets always make sense - I've seen companies that are quite happy to drop [just for example] $50,000 a month for years rather than pay $250,000 to have a project completed in 6 months. The government for one loses their annual budget if they don't spend it - so spend it they will, come hell or high water. It astounds me at how many project dollars are wasted on things like this. You should always use the right tools for the right job - sometimes this decision is not in your hands. Sometimes it comes down from on high that "thou shalt use X technology" for this project, leaving you thinking "WTF! Who came up with that ridiculous idea?"... the guy paying your paycheque, that's who, now get it done. Programming ideology comes first and foremost, everything else is secondary. In reality, deadlines and business objectives need to be met in order to get your paycheque. Sometimes you make the worst decisions because you just don't have time to do it the right way... just as sometimes that word is on the tip of your tongue but the minute it takes to recall it makes you choose a different and less ideal word. There isn't always time to do it right, sometimes there is only time to do it - however that may be. Hence oft' seen anti-patterns used by so called experienced developers who have to knock out a solution to a problem 10 minutes before the presentation deadline for the software being delivered to your best client tomorrow.

我一直认为，要成为一名优秀的程序员，必须了解系统的所有内部工作原理。我很羞愧，因为在开始编码之前，我不知道关于这门语言的一切，比如它的库、模式、代码片段。 我不再那么天真了。

我写的所有东西在可预见的未来都会失败。

并不是说一切最终都不会崩溃，而是在我的编程教育早期，当我发现try. catch块…我把所有的东西都包在里面....有些事情，如果失败了，将代表比我的程序处理的更大的问题(例如，北极和南极互换了位置)。

在编程的头几年，我没有意识到1kbyte在技术上是1024字节，而不是1000字节。我总是有点困惑，因为我的数据文件的大小似乎与我预期的稍有出入。

就查询性能而言，SQL WHERE子句中整数的位比较实际上是免费的。

碰巧，对于前50万行左右来说，这在某种程度上是正确的。在那之后，它被证明是完全无联合国的。

我曾经认为应用程序的大部分工作实际上是编程。我相信这在某些情况下是正确的，但根据我的经验，我花了更多的时间来研究、记录、讨论和分析，而不是实际编码。(我从事的是操作基于激光的传感器的软件，确定如何最好地控制硬件比编写代码更具挑战性。)

我也曾经认为，程序员可以回头问旁边的人问题的开放环境是程序员团队敲定解决方案的最佳环境。事实证明，不管有没有团队，一个黑暗孤独的房间效率更高。

当我毕业时，我认为专业编程就像在大学编程一样，这意味着我将得到输入和预期输出，并被要求填写进行转换的黑框。在现实中，我必须弄清楚输入，输出和黑盒。

我过去并不认为市场和销售人员是人类的祸害，太天真了。