Shadowing Practice: 7 Things No Programmer Ever Wants to Hear - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Being a software engineer sucks.
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I was told I would be working in a fast-paced, exciting environment, but in reality, I'm stuck in this cubicle, building super complex stuff that nobody understands or appreciates.
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If I had a time machine, I would do two things.
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One, I would tell Harambe to get away from that kid.
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NOOOOO!
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And two, I would go back to school to become a civil engineer, so I could work outside building stuff everyone admires, like bridges and skyscrapers.
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Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to build a time machine in JavaScript yet.
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Now, I would never recommend anybody choose software engineering as a career, but if you do make bad life choices like me, you should be prepared for some really bad things to happen.
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Like, every doctor eventually loses a patient, and every pilot eventually crashes a plane.
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Likewise, every software engineer will eventually face a merge conflict, and that's not even very bad.
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In today's video, we'll look at 7 different devastating text messages that no developer ever wants to hear.
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Speaking of which, I finally started a Discord, so feel free to chat with me over there after this video.
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We've got some t-shirts and licenses to JetBrains software to give away over there.
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One of the biggest problems with software engineering is
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that you don't want your friends and family to find out what you do.
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The reason is you'll get messages like this from your uncle
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or old roommate asking if you want to build an app together.
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It will consist of a very dumb idea that's impossibly complex to execute, like Uber but for horses, or TikTok without the Chinese, with a $500 budget.
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Messages like this are so painful
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because software engineers are usually introverts who have a hard time saying no. What you'll wanna do is respond and say, hey, that's an awesome idea.
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I would love to build it for you, but my rate is $300 an hour.
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What they'll likely do is come back with a counter offer of $0 per hour, but 10% equity in the company, which will eventually be worth billions.
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That's pretty much checkmate.
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Check speaks for itself.
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I would just recommend accepting the offer and building the app to get them to go away.
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Now, when you're not building apps for friends and family, you should be working on your own side projects.
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And in doing that, you'll likely use the cloud like AWS.
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One of the worst messages you can receive is a cloud billing alert like, Hey, it's AWS.
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Your $25 budget has been exceeded by $2.3 million.
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Maybe you clicked the wrong button or accidentally created an infinite loop, but the important thing here is not to panic.
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The easiest solution is to just stop using AWS and pretend nothing ever happened.
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If Jeff ever sends his guys after you, just tell them your account got hacked.
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That may or may not work, and
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if it doesn't, you can at least find comfort in knowing there are many
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other homeless people out there who simply forgot to turn off an EC2 instance.
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Another dreaded, catastrophic thing a developer doesn't want to hear is that a production database has been dropped accidentally, along with all of your company's data that was worth billions of dollars.
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You just made the simple mistake of dropping prod instead of dev.
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When something like this happens, it's absolutely terrifying, but hopefully you have backups that are able to restore it back to its original state.
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If not, now would be a good time to start looking for a new job.
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Dropping a database is incredibly easy and can be accomplished with a single line of code.
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You can use this knowledge to fight back against the system, as this person did here, by weaponizing SQL injection against speed cameras.
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Dropping a database is bad, but at least it's over quickly.
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Many developers suffer a worse fate, like this guy who got a message from his boss, assigning him to a legacy AngularJS version 1 codebase that needs to be migrated to Angular 14.
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Sadly, the previous developer died of old age, and was the only one who had any idea how anything in this codebase worked.
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He knew exactly how to keep his job by creating an overly complex codebase without any comments or documentation, and now it's your turn to update it.
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Fuck my life.
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This job will take more skill and ingenuity than building a nuclear submarine, and when you finally finish the job in a few years, no one will even notice or care,
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because by that time it'll be time to migrate your legacy codebase into the hot new JavaScript framework of 2025.
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Speaking of which, something a web developer never wants to hear is that a new, better JavaScript framework has been invented.
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When you learn a JavaScript framework, you join a tribe, and that means everything outside that tribe is dangerous and terrible.
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Now normally, you can create an echo chamber to convince yourself
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that your chosen framework is absolutely 100% the best in every use case.
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However, at some point, you may be convinced that a better framework does in fact exist.
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When that day comes, you'll need to turn your back on your tribe and lose many friends in the process.
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And it's not exactly easy to make new friends when you're a software engineer.
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I can't sit here.
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But one of the most annoying things that can happen to you is when a non-technical person, like a client or marketing expert, asks you to make one small change to an already finished product.
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Like, let's just move this nav bar from the top over to the side here.
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It should be an easy change for you to make.
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You don't not want to look like a 10x developer, so you go ahead and do it, But it takes like 20 hours and modifications in a hundred different HTML and CSS files.
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Then as soon as you commit your work, that same person will come back and say, you know what, I think I liked it better the first way.
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Let's go ahead and change it back.
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It's no secret that the most important skill of a software engineer is being able to Google things effectively.
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That means one of the worst things
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that can happen to you is running into a problem that nobody else has already solved for you.
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It's painful enough when zero results come back on Google with your error message, but an even worse thing can happen.
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You might search an error and get a single result on an obscure forum from 10 years ago, and find some dude going through the exact same problem as you.
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As you scroll down, hoping for a well-documented and detailed solution, you find that all he posted was fixed, all good now.
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And now you have to figure out the problem all by yourself.
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Being the Chad that you are, you get to work, and as soon as you're about to solve the problem, you get a notification that it's time for your daily stand-up meeting.
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Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 71 sentences and 1208 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:14. The speaker talks fast, about 231 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| developer noun | /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/ | A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products. |
| framework noun | /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/ | A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size. |
| database noun | /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/ | A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer. |
| cloud noun | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. |
| skill noun | /skɪl/ | A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. |
| solve verb | /sɒlv/ | To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. |
| legacy noun | /ˈlɛɡəsi/ | Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will. |
| painful adjective | /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/ | Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. |
| convince verb | /kənˈvɪns/ | To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence. |
| accidentally adverb | /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/ | In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly. |
| chamber noun | /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ | The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble. |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| uncle noun | /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ | The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. |
| suck verb | /sʌk/ | To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). |
| comfort noun | /ˈkʌm.fət/ | Contentment, ease. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| משפטי תנאי (Conditional sentences) if + clause, will/would + verb — תנאי ותוצאה שלו | If not, now would be |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | was told · has been exceeded · has been dropped |
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | haven't figured · has been exceeded · has been dropped |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | company, which will · guy who got · one who had |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 19 contractions and reduced forms, such as you'll, you're, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, injection /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/, documentation /ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, modification /ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, documentation /ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like developer, framework, database.
מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?
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