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Professor: "Who here regularly backs up all their data?"
*Some people raise their hands*
Professor: "Who has at some point lost their data?"
*The exact same people raise their hands*21 -
Am I the only one who's bothered by the fact that in CSS, "!important" doesn't mean "not important" ?13
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We accept that the brain is the most important organ, but really, what organ is telling you that?
Fucking Brain.4 -
I know pretty much everyone here understands the importance of net neutrality, but here’s a nice chart you can share with all your non tech friends explaining the importance of it in terms they understand
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An extremely important fact, on which your life depends. Would like to know how they calculated it.
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$ rant --ridiculous
So today my beautiful and glorious presence was asked to a meeting, I was supposed to present the hosted platform for a project, well, the meeting took place in a building I had never been in so I got lost, when I arrived the design team were presenting a completely different design that what they had given me, which I had spend 10+ hours cleaning and organizing and integrating with the code, and during the whole time I was there I was never involved in the conversation, so basically I was pulled out of my coding liar for nothing oh and because who doesn't like a good ending ... I crashed on my way home after the meeting. Cool day huh?3 -
this.rant == "long";
This is something I feel strongly about, I hope you do too...
I fucking hate it when I hear that people don't care about net neutrality (and I've heard people say it). There is little in this world untouched by shitty corporations encroaching on the little good that is left in this world.
Yes the internet is full of edgy teenagers, incompetent Seniors (both old people and Devs) and god knows what else. But you know what? I pay my money to copy and paste code from SO (we ALL do let's not lie to ourselves) and I'm not paying a special fee to look at this content or that or send this type of text to that kind of person.
Now then to the point... On 14th December 2017 the FCC will vote on whether or not to allow companies like Verizon and - dare I say it - Comcast to charge more to access certain sites or block you access altogether and otherwise control what you say and do.
I for one, say FUCK OFF and I hope you do to. If you can, call or otherwise contact your Congressperson - you can do that here: https://house.gov/representatives/... . If you're not from the US, you can still help! https://www.battleforthenet.com has lots of information on what you can do to help.
I hope you'll all join me in shouting as loud as we can and preventing this moronic idea from going through.
Peace.
this.rant.end();
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Oh boy.. this is going to be so much fun when the intern deletes something and realizes he / she forgot to put the where clause 😂
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Headphones ON ears means DON'T disturb unless it's important.
Talking about the chance of rain is not f*ing important. Especially when it's the 10th effin time I'm interrupted by nonsense officetalk in one hour!6 -
Never have I ever noticed until now that when you ssh into a vm, the roles of guest and host switches.
At first, you're the host and the vm is the guest. But when you ssh, the vm is the host and you're the guest.
What a crazy world we live in... 🤔11 -
When i started learning CSS I thought `!important` will put the property's precedence to the lowest possible level, because, you know, I thought it means "not important".3
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A few days after deploying a big important Website into production, I wanted to copy the whole thing including DB back onto our test server for future testing/bug fixing if something comes up. (Last changes were done on production server before going live)
So I opened SSH, removed everything on the test sever aaaaand then I realized I was connected to production...
Took about an hour to get everything up and running again. We didn't tell the client and hoped it would not be noticed.2 -
I don't understand people who watch football at all... Yesterday at around 4pm France time, France was playing against Denmark I think, so my boss had the brilliant idea of making some kind of party so everyone in the company would watch that. He brought beer, make up, food and so on.
Guess what, pretty much all my coworkers stopped working on their programming projects and went to watch it, I was the only one who stayed in my office and worked on my project, yeah, i'd rather finish my PHP project than watch a bunch of brainlets running after a ball.
Boss was nice enough to bring me a drink though lol17 -
Favorite dev tool? My keyboard. I don't like coding without my keyboard, it's a very important tool.
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Just noticed how much I hate standards that only got popular because some people were to stupid to understand how it works. And now people don't even learn what it does anymore because other stupid people now believe it's "bad practice" because it's easily used wrong by new people.
Although many of them are actually things that make more sense for a lot of things.6 -
CSS !important
always annoyed me cz I read it not important where it actually means the opposite... Damn it devs get your shit together!2 -
New proposal: Addition of "!fuckingimportant" syntax to CSS to override any preceding !important modifiers. :P3
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Scientists debate on important stuff like when the world is gonna end, and climate change. However we debate on the really important stuff: spaces vs tabs.7
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Am I the only one who reads CSS "!important" as "not important", because of the '!'? No matter how many times I read it ....5
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Only site which helped me alot to get me started in advance git commands was : ohshitgit.com
It also helped me when i started contributing in open source
Check it out :)4 -
Unwritten devRant law #1:
if ($day === 'Friday') {
// add important words
$rant .= 'deploy';
$rant .= 'not';
}
print $rant;23 -
Just because you can learn HTML in a day doesn’t mean that you don’t need a degree.
Did you know that your browser, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and even your operating system use linked lists, binary trees, hash tables, and other so-called “useless” data structures?
It’s important to understand the roots and fundamentals of computer science even if you won’t use that knowledge day to day.
It changes your perspective on programming once you learn what actually goes on under the hood, and makes you think twice about the impact of what you write.
It’s relatively easy to get a programming job without a degree nowadays, but it often leads to web developers claiming that degrees aren’t important to their web apps.
There is much more than just the web to computer science, and that’s something to always keep in mind.11 -
Just appealing for some attention of the european devRanters. This is really important:
https://saveyourinternet.eu4 -
Xpost from /r/sysadmin:
I occasionally see posts from people who seem like they want to spend every waking hour of every waking minute working on home lab stuff and studying for certs.
If you do this, you're missing out on life which you will regret later, but even if you don't care about missing out on life, it actually is hurting your career.
Being well rounded helps you interact with others at work in a number of ways. It makes you less one dimensional as "the computers guy" and it also gives you topics to discuss with people. If you know how to cook, or brew beer, or bake bread you end up using a lot of your technical and troubleshooting skills. Biking long distancing and learning how to fix your bike helps with your troubleshooting skills too. You learn to look at things from other angles.
Reading novels or writing poetry or making art work also helps because it exercises your brain. Woodworking or metal working involve a lot of skills that'd help your IT career including project planning and measuring and budgeting for each project. Working on cars or motorcycles would be similar. You just have to do SOMETHING.
I have a member of my team who literally has nothing going on in his life other than studying for certs. No friends, no hobbies, and he basically eats nothing but McDonalds and frozen dinners because even making a meal takes time away from his studying. He thinks means he's dedicated and will experience great career success.
But instead he has nothing to talk to anyone about, and when I say nothing, I mean literally nothing. It's borderline terrifying. Even if he was into comic books and video games it might help, which might help him relate to SOME of the IT staff even if the rest of the people at the company know nothing about it. But he doesn't even have that.
This isn't a solitary field anymore. Even if you truly are "the best" you still have to interact with other people and stay mentally stable enough to not burn out. Even if you know more than everyone else (or think you do) you have to try to broaden your horizons.15 -
It is a sincere request to all the people who are asking for a backup of their files and documents, to please stop pestering us regarding the same.
We can't possibly collect your data, and even if there's a way, it would be nearly impossible for us to find your data from billions and billions of files and directories.
Citizens are requested to please understand our problems.
Have a nice day :)4 -
How come the css syntax/specifier
!important
Means the opposite of how it reads. (not important)
Can it just be a '!' since its already shouting the meaning.
.short {
height: 9px!
}16 -
"The client has an important meeting next week! You have two days!"
If it's that important why are we just hearing about it...6 -
My boss keeps trying new tech with important new projects instead of trying the fucking new things with anything other than important shit.
I support this let's try better options approach but cmon, be rational about it.2 -
One of my hard drives S.M.A.R.T. said it could fail anytime and I should backup my data. I cut all the files to a new hard drive.
Later that week the new drive fails with the needle falling into the magnetic disks... Fml.
Should've saved those files on the cloud...14 -
I hate when you copy something important to the clipboard, and accidentally copy something else later.7
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Had a hell of a day yesterday. I had to rescue my laptop from the pits of Satan.
After spending the day getting ready to move on from Antergos to Arch,
i couldn't boot into the OS anymore.
Not only that, i mis-selected the wrong setting in my BIOS settings
and ended up losing access to them too. I was panicking and losing all hope but then i remembered
the most important lesson my father ever tought me(may he rest in peace):
"Remeber son, when all else fails, remove the CMOS battery and put it back."
Lo and behold, it worked. So i'm back here, typing this from the laptop which
just 12 hours ago i thought i had lost forever.
Thanks dad.2 -
Put stickers on your notebooks!
I was at an event where different companies present themselves to the students at my school. There was one company that I wasn't interested in at first but then saw a git and a npm sticker on one of the notebooks standing at their booth.
Long story short: I talked to them and now got an internship there.5 -
Windows 10 has just decided to reboot my notebook during the installation of Qt... because the updates are more important...
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** Programmers Speak **
Don't know much about real life,
But Relationships in Laravel are important. -
Me: deployment exploded, the database has to be restored.
C: yeah, the latest backup we have is is from Q1 2016
Me: wat? We have almost weekly changes of the database layout, let alone the content.
C: yeah, you have to execute somewhat 60 sql files ... Have fun
* Sitting in a corner and staring apathecally at the wall*5 -
when you make your best at code writting,responsive design, and making everything smooth but the designer get the credit " coz' the design it's what matters" really? i can't imagine browsing a static image..1
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company has Google drive, OneDrive, DropBox accounts, and yet 90% of important documents are distributed via email...2
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Have to turn two important projects in 1.5 hours. Had the time since yesterday.... Do other people procrast like this?3
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- Hey, that envelope seems important, did you get a job on NY or something?
- Better, I got stickers!
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Every time you use an unnecessary !important in css code, God kills a cat :(
Please don't use !important if it's not necessary.5 -
*Writes code, doesn’t test* “Ah this works, I’ve done it before”
*Finishes project, runs test, errors everywhere* “FUCK!”
I do it on non-important projects... but I need to stop before I start doing it on important projects 😑2 -
Our Code everlasting
The all creating One
Coders Almighty
Through Our Holy Lines
Conceiving Algorithms
Konrad Zuse our Savior
I believe in Clean Code
I believe in Free Software
I believe in Open Source
Our Code is three in one
I believe in the bug-free project
That'll be compiled again
For I believe in the name of Alan Turing -
That CSSian in my team who always wins it while i keep reminding myself ... BACKEND IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT!
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Defining importance as a Web Developer.
Firefox === Iceweasel !important;
z-index: 99999999999999999;1 -
A senior member of the Business just came to my desk:
“Hey are we still cool to launch that thing in Monday?”
Me - “eeehhhhhh”
The feeling of sick in my stomach has not yet passed. -
If you ask yourself "hm, what does this button do?" while on an important project: DO. NOT. TOUCH. THIS.
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Yay ...
No more !important in SCSS...
All colors pulled from variables...
Such code ... Very clean 😂 -
Most web developers have to use CSS every now and then. I don't really mind using CSS every know and then, but one thing really bugs me. As a developer, I read ! as "not". In CSS !important becomes "not" important. However, when I read CSS I still read "not" important, when I know this really worked the other way around.
BTW, when I first came across !important many years ago, I really thought it meant a rule was not important, really confusing!2 -
The Windows update task scheduler: "I'll make 19 very very important, 20 very important, 12 important, 0 really important and 400 optional updates. And when you are currently at a meeting in the next room, I'll gonna restart in 15 minutes and make 451 updates, when you want to show the demo. "
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So we needed to reinstall debian cause Apt was fucked up again. Of course there were no backups that I know of, so I start a localised backup, just the files we need. I'll make this short. Superior started the reinstall process before the backup was finished and corrupted most of the files. Yay1
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What the FUCK is wrong with people!!!??
If you need to use !important in your CSS.... STOP and just don't.
It should be very clear that if the need arises to use !important then you are either really shit at CSS and don't understand the concept or you are a lazy mother fucker.
I'm so fucking sick of dealing with other so called "developers" shit code and have to spend time I don't have fixing their shit.
There is absolutely no reason to use
!important and to anyone that thinks to be a smartarse and let me know of their shit reasons... just don't because there aren't any.5 -
The abillity to mute clients who use IE8.
<!--[if IE 8]> <style>
.client {
display:none!important;
}</style> <![endif]-->3 -
I really want to stress that we should add the ticket for adding the missing test cases in *this* sprint and not postpone it any further.
-- "Isn't there something more important to be added instead?"
There. ALWAYS. Is. Something. MORE. Important. The real problem was that we implement the test cases in the past to begin violating our definition of done. We have to fix and one point and we have to own that decision as nobody else will care about passing tests and test coverage. It's our job to care for that.
Yes, we can instead focus on all the other high-priorities task that should have been done yesterday, yet that won't change the fact that large part our codebase will remain an untested messy blackbox just asking for weird bugs and wild goosechases in the future.
Don't hide behind "high priority tasks". A job is done when it is fucking done and tests are part of that. Hurrying from one important task to the next will just mean we'll never do it. There is no better time than right now.
If code coverage got left behind in the past, then we'll have to suck it up in order to fix it as soon as possible, otherwise we'll just suck forever.1 -
Never ever trust a backup that you didn't!
I know, I should backed up all by myself, but a trusted on a colleague and now there is not database ... The server was formated :-(
Damm, all backups are incomplete by a bad script ...2 -
An application that simply allows you to continue viewing something important from your phone (instant handoff)5
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If we want to make it important, then why do we write as not important (!important), why CSS, WHYYYYY...
Isnt it logical to just have it as important...
Cz now whenever I want to say important, I automatically type !important...4 -
Overengineering. Finding the right point between overdesign and no design at all. That's where fancy languages and unusual patterns being hit by real world problems, and you need to deal with all that utter mess you created being architecture astronaut. Isn't that funny how you realize that another fancy tool is fundamentally incompatible with the task you need to solve, and you realize it after a month of writing workarounds and hacks.
But on the other hand, duct tape slacking becomes a mess even quicker.
Not being able to promote projects. You may code the shit out of side project and still get zero response, absolutely no impact. That's why your side projects often becomes abandoned.
Oversleeping. You thought tomorrow was productive day, but you wake up oversleeped, your head aches, your mind is not clear and you be like "fuck that, I'm staying in bed watching memes all day". But there's job that has to be done, and that bothers you.
Writing tests. Oh, words can't describe how much I hate writing tests, any kind of. I tried testing so many times in high school, at university, even at production, but it seems like my mind is just doesn't accept it. I know that testing is fundamentally important, but my mind collapses every time I try to write a single fucking test, resulting in terrible headache. I don't know why it's like that, but it is, and I better repl the shit out of pure function than write fucking tests. -
My goals for the future:
* Finish my online schooling
* Get a job, and move to wherever that job takes me
* Pay off my school debt
* Go for a masters
* Continue working and save up
* Apply to be a professor for programming and engineering
* Get a business degree
* Start a business
* Eventual heat death of the universe3 -
If I see one more motherfucking useless !important rule in this project, a motherfucker is getting stabbed1
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F*ck Apple. WatchOs 4 is a downgrade! On first apple watch the system runs half the speed. The music app is now shit, because I can only play music downloaded on the 2gb apple watch. Seriously wtf? Maybe I have more music than 2gb. There new design of the app slowed the app down to 15 fps...
The story watch face is complete crap it shows all the time only "Good morning, name".
The worst is I can't go back to the watchOS 3 which was so many times better...
And you still have this bug that pisses me off since watch OS 1 you can hear every sounds coming from your watch with your Bluetooth headphones, but not calls.
You have to hear the call with the apple watch speakers when you don't want to buy airpods.
In other words the function is useless.
And it's one of the most important.
Pls apple why has every watchOS update have to be an downgrade...
And I don't have any chance to get off of this version unlike with iOS. -
Have you ever wondered why !important is even working? Imagine this:
element {
color: #FF0000 !important;
}
It literally means the red color is NOT IMPORTANT. And this overwrites previous CSS rules such as in this example, previous element.color. Like seriously, where is the logic here? :D17 -
devRant seriously cuts into my hackernews and regular news time. But it's important to have priorities, I guess.
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DO BACKUPS!!! And to be sure every hour. Terminated once the only server without backups. It was a hard recovery
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I'm too young to have taken my last job...
Enough with the jokes. I have been networking with a lot of people through the years of working at companies and that paid off.
When people trust you for your knowledge, then it's normal to attract business offers. Also, you can partner up with people. That's how my last job started and is still going. At a previous company, I interviewed a guy who had the skills and motive to replace me, but he didn't get the job cause my boss was stupid (he was lucky not to work there, for real).
After I left, he called me to offer me a partnership. One year later and we are killing it, became good friends too. -
When you write a detailed story for an offshore dev and still feel like you missed something important.
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Made a mistake in scrapping project, realized it AFTER it spent 3 days running, now I relaunched it (corrected) with 4 times more workers to meet the deadline
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Blake 1803: 📜"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower"
🌏🏖🌌🌻
Me 2017: 📱Impressive compression ratio, but what is the complexity of Sand to World decompression? -
I'm running a spin-off and the team is still small. So, I was wondering how a minimal backup system should be. I do not mean to use github, that we already use, I am concerned about the HD of our servers and laptops. Thanks in advance!3
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At college, second year, basic CS for that school. The teacher calls me to her office, and asked me if I had any backup of my work, because the school computer I used, had crashed and the school didn't have backup of it.
2 years of school material, lost. So the teacher and school director had to vouch for me. Still got best grade in glass. -
[Question]
If there is an fire, smoke starts to fill the room quickly, and you are working on your code, will you "git commit / git push"?4 -
I know it's like the shittiest thing you can do in CSS, but sometimes I use !important because I feel dicking around with CSS for countless hours is !important.1
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leaving work place > stay to finish important feature > on second thought we don't need this feature
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Using the company's framework that override all your CSS with its own. Trying !important doesn't work too, so so looked up what was going on.
The CSS generated already used ! important. Welp.4 -
As if the day could not be worst.
I've a delay with an app for a school project, my stomach hurts like hell, I'm sleepy, my phone's SD card fucked up.
At least I still have some soda left, though2 -
DUPLiCATED SEE COMMENTS
Bug, my feed is full of rants I already upvoted, and reloading it doesn't change the feed, I am on algo mode btw
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy grand prime Android 58 -
Well done Samsung! There is nothing better than wake up in the morning just to find out that fucking VR Service ate 15% of the battery overnight.1
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It's really important to have a portfolio?
What's the value of a beautifull and fullfill portfolio? How it can help?6 -
Was going to change some css in our application which ruined some styling with !important. Found the less file responsible for the !important...
... the front-end guy had made a variable @important to add !important on rules... -
coding all day long and then realising that you haven't commented anything...
after all, deciding not to comment your code because you are lazy and sure that you will know what you did in every single line of code when you were writing it... and then 2-3 month later blaming yourself for not commenting when you have to fix bugs or rewrite the code! damn! -
"It's not at all important to get it right the first time. It's vitally important to get it right the last time." Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
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Look, I get that you want your front to be really, really, reallyyyy fancy! But when that fanciness comes at a price, more specifically speed! Then we're going to have a problem. Look... Not everyone has super fast internet, and when your website thinks it's better to load the entire website and not the sign in first, then we're going to have issues.
No it doesn't work that way. I don't want to be mounted by ads, Let me IN quickly and quietly, and we won't have any issues.
TLDR Front End developers like squeaky shiny and clean, but neglect the sign-in dialog -
So, what are some useful / important Android and IOS apps for developers which can help them on the go?4
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Apparently,some universities don’t understand it’s not a good idea to send passwords ove an unencrypted connection. And btw, post requests work the same as get ones, it’s not more secure.
Not going to put the website for privacy reasons, but 🖕 this university!🖕🖕2 -
Trying to upgrade to macOS High Sierra, guess what? After half a day of backing up and installation, I time traveled. My Mac is still running macOS Sierra. 🙄
(Luckily i backed up)4 -
!rant
I just found out I don't need to download jQuery to use jQuery. If I can just include jQuery in the <script> tag in order to load it into my HTML doc, what is the download for?10 -
Try to explain your girlfriend why keeping your OS clean is more important than keeping clean your room -.-3
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In whatever framework I'm using I get frustrated with the default css so I just !important everything
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Mongo client for important analytical data reporting was configured with write concern 0 since 2012.
It's a master replica setup... -
if you write awesome code that's undocumented nobody will ever use it, or why I use external open source libraries over internal ones
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There are times when I'm too tired I forget what I changed in the code so I write just "regular" in the title and nothing at all in the description even though it's very obvious i refactored large chunks of the code and added new ones... Regular riight
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if using ! in front of a variable - casts it to bool, if necessary - and flips the bit, why CSS uses "!important" to mean important, when it actually means unimportant...4
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So, in a microservice or web service pattern what is most important unitary test or functional test?
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