the answer to everything is money

devRant users have to be the most committed people ever

Javascript is truely the language of the proletariat. If I was president CPU would be Javascript-native and if you're caught doing anything else, you're sent to gulag

Gulag is 20 hours a day of mining bitcoin using brainfuck only.

In our game, we have occasional problems w/ IAPs where for whatever reason a purchased IAP doesn't get redeemed, which leads to players requiring aid from the support team.
On our end, a tester reported an issue where he had such problems. 100% reproduction rate, mentioned the affected account to be safe.

Caught the following conversation between two leads regarding that report:

Test Lead 0: Upon rechecking the issue we've discovered that the issue can't be reproduced on our end. We have however confirmed that the one account mentioned in the report is affected.
Test Lead 1: Since we can't reproduce the issue, should we close it?

So, yeah... why bother a poor programmer w/ this issue that is 100% reproducible but w/ one account affected only. Definitely zero chance of fixing at least one instance where this issue might occur.
/s

Finally success, I can die now.

How do you research a subject you literally know nothing about and are unprepared? That's the main question when creating a system like deep search (e.g. perplexity).

I have made a clone that comes pretty close to perplexity. Sadly, perplexity has some tools i can not build in that easy, especially not for cheap, like live voice that you can interrupt and stuff. I'll add support for image uploads later. It can show up-to-date source code examples based on searches (so, by stupid outdated models) and has syntax highlighting for every language. It also generates nice graphs (that actually make sense, took a while) to compliment the data it finds.

Example of the application, try to search something yourself: https://diepzoek.app.molodetz.nl//...

Our CTO is leaving, the CEO decided to seize this once in a lifetime opportunity to cut costs and we'll have to do without CTO.

There is no way this software development company will still be operating 9 months from now without a fucking CTO and I have honestly never seen such a blatant example of deep mental retardation, be it by a manager or by the endless supply of sycophants tirelessly endorsing the dumbest idea I have ever heard of, as if they're not going to be jobless like the rest of us.

If you're bored, claim a house in devRant village: https://drmap.app.molodetz.nl/. Some are quite building already. With right click on a house, you can claim it by putting your name on it.

Was a bit vibing on the side and got reminded on transport tycoon way of mapping.

It's live btw, you can see each other building.

Crypto Queen Ruja Ignatova is my dream sugar mammy. Ruja if you read this call me xoxo

!rant

Okay, so last Monday I get a message from the fertility clinic that I’ve tested positive for one or more genetic carrier conditions and that I should schedule a consult with a genetic counselor. I go to check my labs to find out what condition(s) I’m a carrier for only to find that the labs are marked as upcoming and aren’t available until late Tuesday night. So I spend Monday through Wednesday morning worrying about what horrific shit I might pass onto kids if we have them.

Finally read the labs Wednesday morning.

Albinism. The horror is albinism. (Oculocutaneous albinism type 2)

Husband looks at me and is like “Are they SURE you’re just a carrier? You being a carrier for albinism explains SO MUCH. I thought you were just British, but *gestures at me vaguely*”

(I have poor vision, light brown hair, green eyes, pale skin, and have never tanned)

Apparently for SIXTEEN YEARS this man has thought I *could* tan but was paranoid about sun exposure and so never did.

This man who has seen me burn on a NUMBER of occasions.

And who has seen me get burned by having the temerity to sit too close to a bay window on a sunny day.

Been playing silksong. This game is a mix of some of the best and worst game design I have ever experienced.

Unfortunately, the true end of the game is locked behind some of the least fun, most unfair, tedious slogs I have ever encountered in a game, so I probably won't see it for myself. But if you like kaizo stuff, you'd probably like it.

Me: Buetooth has to be the worst moshpit of a standard!
USB-C: Hold my beer!

manager is realizing im dogshot at my job and slow, rip

> It is true that there is no person who wishes to be disliked. But look at it this way: what should one do to not be disliked by anyone? There is only one answer: it is to constantly gauge other people’s feelings, while swearing loyalty to all of them. If there are ten people, one must swear loyalty to all ten. When one does that, for the time being one will have succeeded in not being disliked by anyone. But at this point, there is a great contradiction looming. One swears loyalty to all ten people out of the single-minded desire to not be disliked. This is like a politician who has fallen into populism and begun to make impossible promises and accept responsibilities that are beyond him. Naturally, his lies will come to light before long. He will lose people’s trust, and turn his own life into one of greater suffering. And, of course, the stress of continual lying has all kinds of consequences. Please grasp this point. If one is living in a such a way as to satisfy other people’s expectations, and one is entrusting one’s own life to others, that is a way of living in which one is lying to oneself, and continuing that lying to include the people around one.

@retoor I am sick of devrant being slow as shit, I remember you had an alternative, post it here please so we can abandon this sloth of an app

Story:
Useful lesson I learned in a JavaScript book:

"Classes are abstract data types in the sense that they are a layer around the complexity (encapsulation). Their singular nature allows them to be reused without being rewritten everywhere.

A good analogy is thinking of classes as appliances; the complex circuitry and components that an appliance comprises of are made by different people than the abstract shell around these components, of which (another) team only needs to know which buttons to access which parts.
A class abstracts away the internal complexity (components) and only exposes a public interface (the buttons) that the user (yet another group, comparable to the consumer of the class) is going to use."

It reminds me of how Google uses the Facade pattern to only expose the search box and the button as its public interface and all the complex architecture is hidden away.

This helped clarify classes better for me.

I'm tired. Guess I'd better give up on this marriage shit, take my tax money and hide in the wood. Fuck society.

you know it's true love when one of you sighs because of something communism and then you rip into communism things people believe for 30 minutes

they say get married to those with the same values as you, and political leanings

ancap wins again, ty ty ty

Guys apparently they added a rainbow in GTA and the right wingers are clenching their sphincters. .

If everyone ranting here had access to DevRants source code and could comment and vote on changes, would you it become better or worse?

Horror Story Time:

Acouple thousand years ago, before the great plage and the rise of the machines I met the founders of a startup , they visited silico valey, one of them worked in san francisco, but they were struggling, So they fired the senior engineer who built their system, and decided to contract out their development.

Their system relied heavily on Location data, it was very central for their business and they used Google APIs, so a few months after they let go of the dude, google starts billing them. Founders did not want to pay so they contracted out a junior dev to fix the issue... And he fixed it.

On that same weekend they attended a big convention, invested a good chunk of money there, registration numbers skyrocketed, huge success. Come monday morning they call me on Skype.

There was no location data in the new accounts, zero, zilch, nada. The "fix" the freelancer did was disabling Google integration altogether, They never tested the stuff properly, just accepted the changes and went with it.

I don't know if they went under because of this, or if this was just the a part of the issue. But sure enought the company lasted less then a Year after that.