From watching the movie Amadeus (1984) (Mozart) I realized how backward the job market is and how it never changed:

Mozart's dad: "I cannot possibly hire this girl without references!"

It's even more stupid nowadays. Now they made it illegal to hire based on feeling. lol. I mean, that's good, yeah.

Why do you need references for hiring someone anyway? Bad economy? Lack of trust in humans in general?

Do you know why Gen X people have better immune systems than all yall whipper snappers?

Because we chewed the gum we found on the bottom of our school desks.

We didn't care if we drank from the same soda can.

It was common to play in parasite infested waters. (Actually a kid I knew in high school that got amoebas in his brain from that shit. He lost of a year of high school he had to repeat.)

Truth be told we probably don't have better immune systems. The younger gens are fucking each other and think condoms stop disease. So yall probably got Syphilis.

A small win:

I got my first onsite next week! A lot I need to brush up on between now and then, but I'm excited about the company and they seem to be excited about me.

Windows you fucking clown OS, leave my desktop icons the fuck alone! I put them where they are for a reason, not for you to go and vomit on my preference settings and mess everything up again!
Is there a single human dev left at Microsoft or is it completely taken over by AI slop now?

Christa McAuliffe said to her husband before the launch: "You feed the dog, I will feed the fish."

Sticky scroll, worst shit I've ever seen.

What kind of operating system takes 11 minutes to start and then requires yet another reboot in order to work properly?

If there's one thing that is universal truth, it's that Tailwind CSS is doodoo.

How long do you think it would take for YOU PERSONALLY (you cannot be told or informed by any other person) that light has begun to move at the speed of sound (So, everything else remains the same, but things farther away will be delayed visually. You also see things at the same rate that you hear them, so a firework 10 miles in the distance would have the visual explosion and the sound at the exact same time)

Oh, and, this is ONLY a visual effect. The internet slowing to a crawl because suddenly light is lagging would make it too obvious.

Our German friends made us lunch:
Spaetzle, Jagershnitzle, Gechmorter Kohl, Tiramisu

I felt like we should have been playing German marching music during lunch. They also confirmed that Germans don't have a sense of humor. They did tell some good jokes. Mixed signals.

They served pork, I could have told concentration camp jokes and been mostly safe.

I'm building a WAF and I'm trying to gather most vulnerable exploits, based on your experience what are the protocols that are forgotten by web admins to catch...

Is it just me or is typeorm broken as fuck. I am trying to save an object that is nested a few layers deep. It has all the options. Delete on cascade. Orphan. But it is just not working. It doesn't add new items.

Fuck, I am in no fucking mood today. I am feeling like punching a hole through my wall. And I already spend hours on a fucking piece of shit software that does not do what it promises.

It's always like this.. I read the documentation. It is supposed to do it. Now what? Work around it? Write tons of logic? Dive into the library code? That's fucking bullshit... In the end, if a library doesn't work, you're fucked. You just signed up for days of work if you have to fix it.

Fine... I'll take a fucking look. Who needs sleep anyway

"Our site works better in the app," they claim. But I can't magnify text in their app, can't zoom into images and can't select and copy text?

Your site only works better in the app, because you make your developers restrict the web app on purpose to deceive and effectively force your users to use a native app for no other reason than to collect more data and push unsolicited spam notifications into their face more easily.

I've vented to a few friends about the bad interviews I've had. They've been bad mostly because I'm not amazing at Leetcode style questions and the pressure of an interview. I saw some of these friends last night and they all said the same thing:

"You have to have the 'f*** you, if you're going to ask me these type of questions I don't want to work for you anyways' mentality."

I haven't even thought of it that way, but I think that's because in the Bay Area that's just the name of the game. Every random company and their mom is asking you these brain twisters, and to cut out all companies that do it would mean cutting out like 95% of the market.

I have been pretty lucky that the last few companies I have worked at have been very chill / light on the Leetcode style questions, but I don't think I'll get that lucky again.

Anyways, I wish I could just not care about a bad interview and just do the whole "yeah f you guys" mentality, but that's just not who I am. I wish I could turn that on, but I know I do care about some of these companies and want it to work out.

society seems to just keep telling me I don't deserve to live

sigh

Man... oldschool gaming is hardcore. I have been playing SNES games and they use a password system where you only get the password if you get enough points, which are one-shot only and if you miss your chance, no password for you. lol. And then you have to play another 4 levels to get your next password... upon which the difficulty to get it is progressively more difficult.

As you may know, SNES cartridges used a button cell for saving state between sessions. Now I also understand why I had spent entire afternoons on a game in my childhood... because you couldn't save. LOL. It was just passwords.

THE FRENCH WERE RIGHT IN CUTTING THE KING HEAD AND WE SHOULD ALL DO THE SAME TO YOUR PRIME MINISTER / PRESIDENT / KING / EMPEROR OR WHATEVER ITS CALLED

GENERAL HEADCUTTING DAY.

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Week: 115 (Year 3)

How is the weekend going?

Question: What's the best and worst thing that happened to you this year so far?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19384618

I have completely dismantled and readembled my.devplace, basically revamped for game development, refactored so I don't need an anti vomit pill to work on it. So it can be a desert of another purpose, I might transform it to a Movie watching site next week who knows

Test now your devRant knowledge! it's a game about who said what to who or said what in general. It's way better than the previous quiz.

https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.quiz2...

This quiz is very realistic and doable. You don't have to do it at once, the progress is remembered.

I tried to keep especially controversional stuff in it. It must be a bit funny of course.