One thing I did with my stickers. #stickers

Made this meme.

So this happened. Thanks for the stickers! It's pretty amazing y'all giveaway free stickers.

Keep being awesome! @dfox

I'll post some in action later. ;)

So not only is Gradle horrendously slow, is also sort of funny.. it reloaded the project

I'm sure this has been replayed at some point in history, but I have never seen it on DevRant. Common rants for several different languages. Forgetting to add sudo is a real annoyance..

It took me an entire week to install Android Studio pressing retry a hundred times because of how crappy our internet is at work.

How do they expect us to work in these conditions! Some days it works alright, most days it's like pulling teeth.

I've been skimming this slightly outdated "Learning Android" O'Reilly text and I found the error log levels to be colorful enough to be amusing...

Wrote a new feature for our flagship product in C. Worked perfectly, no issues. I was told to wait before submitting to SVN.

Because my company is a little cheap in engineering, they took my Green Hills license for another dev to use. I wasn't using it, and now can't compile.

Then, a month later, I was asked to submit my feature to the repo, they needed it in done version, do I did. Still not able to recompile to see if other changes broke anything...

As you probably guessed, no one's code complied after pulling from the repo! Big embarrassment. Weeks later I was told that it wasn't my fault in the end... I don't remember how my code impacted it, but man, it was a bad day for this dev.

Never again!

Just found out my wife is pregnant!! So excited! What should our little one's first programming language be? What age should they start learning??

Joy!!

When you realize the Linux kernel overallocates memory like United Airlines overallocates seats on a plane.

But for some reason we're ok when Linux does it.. less ok for an airline. >_<

One thing that is really difficult is when you are writing let's say C code for months, and then you switch to C# or Python, you immediately use C-style logic and forgo the easier, shorter Python syntax!

I did a python kata on the Codewars website. After submitting it, I realized my solution was like 10x longer than every other solution. Talking about hand in face.

Stuck to basics and forgot about Python's amazing shortcuts. What are you going to do!

I would get a testing job and thus exploit weaknesses in the ai- created software.

After finding such weaknesses, I would write AI debilitating viruses and WannaCry-like ransomware until I get my job back!

If that doesn't work out, I'd go into linguistics.

Awhile ago I was working with an National Instruments RFID analyzer scope.. the item cost $100,000. And the vendor that sold it my company had the boldness to have Windows 7 run all the licensed software equipment on the device.

The product however did work quite well. One day I came into the office and IT "UPGRADED" TO Windows 10 OVERNIGHT.
Effectively turning the equipment into the world's most expensive brick. Luckily for me, it was my last day in that position.. got a salaried position in engineering.

A couple months later an intern was assigned to fix it.. the licenses were messed up.. he eventually got it working again. Microsoft almost cost my company $100K without a second glance.

It all worked out in the end. :)

So this week I picked up some Sennheiser HD 600 phones for my listening pleasure and take my mind off life stresses.

At work I've been using some Bose phones, but these Senns being open back may be a little loud for the neighboring cubicles.

I guess sound quality and all day use are mutually exclusive. Anyways, what's coding without some great indie tunes. :)

BTW, they sound amazing!!

The biggest coding distraction is sitting in front of a computer with internet access, let's be honest here.

Why does "git rm ..." Without options delete files! That is the dumbest thing ever. If I wanted to delete files, I could always type "rm file"... You forget --cached you're going to be in for a long day.