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Finding Misery in Another Programmer’s Success(blog.slickedit.com)

submitted by jasonjason(175) 4 years, 1 month ago

I was introduced to the word schadenfreude by an episode of the Simpsons, “When Flanders Failed“. It’s a german word that means “pleasure from misfortune”. In this episode, Homer finds happiness in watching Flanders’ Leftorium shop go out of business. The Wikipedia reference to it says that the opposite meaning of schadenfreude would be “happiness in another’s good fortune,” but I think that the opposite should really mean “misery in another’s success”. This sentiment has a long, unfortunate place in software development.

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