You know death march projects: in the software development and software engineering industries, a death march is a name for a project that is destined to fail. Some software projects are Sisyphus projects: you build it up only to break it down a bit later. An example are Facebook applications: you build them up in a cumbersome process, and if you are finally ready, you can break it down and start rolling up the boulder again, because Facebook has changed its API again. The old API is now deprecated, and the application is no longer compatible with the new one. Congratulations! One feels a bit like Sisyphus who rolls the boulder up the hill. Remember in Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever.
Optimizing web applications for different browsers can be cumbersome, too: if you finally have optimized you application for IE6-9, and you have fixed the 3 Pixel Jog Bug and other nice relatives, there is a new browser IE 10, followed rapidly by IE 11-19, which behave completely different and introduce bugs you never dreamed of. You can start all again rolling the boulder up the hill. Sometimes software development can be exciting and fascinating, but sometimes it is just frustrating and exhausting.
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