One does not simply uninstall visual studio...one has to first update the installer

Worst dev advice?

My first manager said, "You're young and single. You don't have a family. You should spend all of your waking hours on work."

Me thinking, "I understand the importance of extra effort the first few years but I do have a life. One that I intend to enjoy."

!Rant

Convinced my girlfriend to learn UI/UX design. She landed her first job last week and it's a good one :)

So proud

The first one should be the answer

Just watched Bourne. One of the first lines are: "Corrupt their database by using SQL". It's like saying: "Corrupt their text document with words". I love when they are "technical" in movies.

Can't tell you about my first job as I've never had one. 😕

Attended my first 24h+ hackathon at @cyanide's college.
Our team got a special mention for being the best all women team.
Wait.
There was just one all women team.
Fucking!
Embarassing!
Seriously!

Dude comes for an interview for a mobile position - one of the first things he says is "Adobe is killing Flash, don't know why, big mistake."

Spent two goddamn hours writing a Python script to convert exported JSON from Trello to an Excel sheet, only to find a Chrome extension that already does it, and better. 😧

We hired a new team lead. On his first day he wore green leather elf shoes. Yeah, the pointy kind.

He also ended up being one of my favorite people ever, but also one of the weirdest.

Me: Which one do you want me to review first, PR 1 or 2?

Coworker: Yes.

"Only stay late at work when it makes sense to, otherwise always leave on time. There's always going to be work left, no matter how much you get done in one day."

Best advice ever.

Edit: I have to say it was during my first week in my first recent grad job.

So in my culture when u have hiccups it is believed that someone is mentioning/talking about you, that means that hiccups are one of the first versions of push notifications 😅

I am the first one.

First day on the phone as a support guy!
Before the first call came in I thought like 'please no email related issues as that's the one thing I suck at!'

Fair enough, first call:
Me: hello, how can I help you?
Customer: well, we've got this email problem...
Me thinking: MOTHERFUCKING FUCKING FUCK WHY ME 😭
Me: what seems to be the problem?

Damn, really?!

My first time being paid. (One time job)
Feels good.

Well I ended my interviews-adventure finally.

Applied for three companies:
- KindOfBigCompany
- BiggestCompany
- BiggestCompany2

I failed in the last two. But got the job in the first one.

The bittersweet sensation is that I got the job in the first one first and then got rejected by the other two so my last feeling is the rejection one. And I really liked BiggestCompany2.

BUT KindOfBigCompany is actually really cool and has a lot of benefits and also I'll earn much more than I currently am so I guess Happy Ending after all :D

- Merging 300 files from one branch to another in TFS.
- No merge conflicts.

My first thought:
This can't be right. I must have done something wrong...

First ever job interview (in my field) went well and I got the job two days later! (my current one).

I'm getting scared from the other stories though 😅

My first self written framework 😅

Damn that was a pile of ****, I still write my own stuff (frameworks etc) but I've learned a lot and those are way better compared to that first one.

Everything was static, loads of defines (way too fucking many) and so on.

Dus.....

I've been wanting a thing where you can upload a file through a post request (api style), get a download link which allows for one download only (after the file gets downloaded it is removed) and be done.

Couldn't find one so quicky, decided to write one myself.

Two hours later I've got a functioning first version, this is the first time ever where I genuinely wrote a system I needed quickly within a few fucking hours and it actually works O_o

I'll hopefully be releasing the security/privacy blog (going to bundle both into one blog) tonight.

I'm actually nervous about this 😅

(first post will solely be an introduction/hello post)

One of my fears is that the NSA will start tracking my every movement because I've search "explode" in Google one too many times... I always forget if the $delimiter comes first or the $string in PHP's function explode().

Why am I able to write a quick search algorithm in JavaScript but am not able to talk to girls?

Shouldn't the second one be easier than the first one?

Shouldn't every human being be able to do the first one?

Maybe you're already aware of this one, but I just saw it for the first time.

Thanks Google, this is what I was looking for.

!=Rant

Does any one else presses cmd+c / ctr+c multiple times just in case the first one did not work?!?

After years of struggle with nvidia on Linux across several devices I built my first AMD only PC and I have only one thing in my mind...

If you write documentation and no one reads it, did you ever write it in the first place?

First day of work,
team lead asked me to study and read the source code.
Opened one file...

Reality of AI, and Tom was the first one to experience the consequences.

This may give us some hint of which one will fall down first.

Am I the only one who looks at the answers first on stack overflow then the question when the answer does not relate to my problem?

Decided to update my rooted Oneplus One...
Everything worked on the first try without even having to do a bunch of reboots...
Hate it when weird stuff like that happens.

New "dev" at our company. One of his first questions. "Could an if clause have two conditions?"... /me *facepalm* ... where did my boss find this Person and what did he told him?

That feeling when you receive your first GitHub contribution on one of the side project you've been working on for months :D

Pushed my first own open source project to Pypi as a python package.
Used tox and travis for the first time.

Feeling proud and super content 😊.

I'm in the process of creating another open source package, which has as dependency the first one 😅.

I love Python.

One day, i'll vertically center a html element from the first try :')

When you make a second cup of coffee but actually the first one had not kicked in yet 😳☕️☕️🙃

My first job stared when i was 16 when i make my first power generator with some hardware stuff and c++.

I remember when it explodes one week later.

Quitting my first job for one outta state that pays 3.4x better.

When I know that i 'm working on the same file with someone from my team, I do my best to commit first so he 'll be the one resolving conflicts :D

It's all about the little things. Like getting my first cup of coffee of the day while watching all the AWS alarms trigger one by one.

Einstein once said: "There are only 2 infinite things, the universe and the 40-day trial of WINRAR and I am not sure about the first one"

*gets awesome idea*
*gets another awesome idea*
*gets a third awesome idea*
*gets a fourth awesome idea and forgets the first one*
*gets a fifth awesome idea and forgets the second one*
etc, etc, etc.

that stuff can get really f*cking annoying.

I'm in my second call from hell today. Passed off first to a teammate to run a meeting. First one started 10 hours ago, this started 5 hours ago. Neither are related. Neither show signs of resolving.

Other teammate is on the same call that started 2 days ago.

Who the hell pissed Murphy off?

Just got a new phone, first app was this one!!

Self made! First one on DevRant

Started with PHP about one month ago, and one of the first facts I noticed is that this language it's fucking violent!
die, explode

I get the honor to be the first one!

Oh boy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS DEVRANT!

The obvious one:
E-Corp (aka. Evil Corp).
First they acted all evil, and then they wanted to control the world.
A brilliant business model tbh., but not very humanistic one.

When I was in college I used to think deadlock is just a theory concept. First c++ project on my job and I already have one now. 🙃

What’s the difference between USB and USA?

The first one is used to transfer files from one device to another, while the other is used to transfer all your device’s data

Im oficial! After one year of studying python / django I received an acceptance letter today. When I began, I didnt expected it would be so soon.

It's not my first job, but my first one as developer (will be doing stuff with python / django / pandas)

So Im happy...! Which is rare for me

!rant
Today just shipped my first fullstack application...the feeling is awesome! Even if no one uses its mine!!!

Someone really needs to change the look of 'I' and 'l'
Guess what the first one is a capital i and the second one is a lower case L
This gets really confusing!

If I ever deleted some of my rants (most likely one of the deleted ones will be the first one) it's because people from SL and IRL are starting to find me. Lol.

I'm not deleting anything yet tho.

After about 2 years and one restart of the project, I am finally finished with my first iOS game, and put it on the app store! Super proud!

“One of the biggest mistakes engineers make is spending time on optimising something (a component) that shouldn’t exist in the first place” - Elon

I’ve been guilty of this a few times 😅

When I was about 12, I was stuck on a certain level in a PC game. I wrote my first patch in C++ to give me God mode. First time I realized programming was the most powerful thing one can do in the universe...

That first paragraph... Don't think I'm ever going to more truth in one paragraph in my entire life

Just figured out: If you're browsing open tabs in Google Chrome on android and you're persistent on pulling them up while on the first one, they will spin. 😀

Let's make a challenge:
If we put a vegan and an Arch user on the same room. which one will talk first announcing that he's vegan/using arch??

deadmau5 just released the Polar soundtrack. So far, it's very good. But there's a song called main. And you know, damn well, that I listened to that one first.

Achievement unlocked:
Got my first donation! for one of my projects.

Haha, feels good :))

I will give a prize to the first one that explains something to a client this way

When I first got in this companie, with 3 other people, one of the first thing they told us was about a "rule" that we never deploy on Friday's or at the end of the day, but no one else in the company knows about it. It's the department's little secret 👌

Just got my first 2 tor relays running; one with 20MB/s, one with 60MB/s. FeelsGoodMan.

Am I the only one who's slightly annoyed that the first lesson in the Swift Playground app is not a "Hello World" program?

It's a week late notice but...
I got my first actual-real-paid-not start-up dev job!
And I have no one to celebrate it with... Toronto..?

Looking at one particular job ad

“Experience with agile”
“Excellent knowledge of agile frameworks”
“Work with agile software development team”

Basically in the first few paragraphs it mentions agile about 10 times.

Then the first bullet point in the essential column

“Must have experience working to tight deadlines”

D’oh

Just watched the first season of Silicon Valley and I have to admit: it's the best series out there. Is the second season as great as the first one?

After using Linux every day for 3 years, today I learned that the first parameter to ln is relative to the second one and not to the current location.

So I just found a new language to learn 😂😂
Am I the only one who heard about this first time??

I got my first job, first work is monday

I still worrying about this job might be one of the many small shitty company horror story.
I don't know shit about working, so I decided to find out myself. Wish me luck.

First post.
Ah, finally a place like stack overflow where no one will down vote me!

Remember to always implement a backup solution if the first one fails.
Don’t break the experience for the user. 😉

Client: can you spice it up a bit
Me: ok
Client: more spicing
Me: alright
Client: i liked the first one.....

Oh come on... Does even ecosia need to craft their truth. First party trackers aren't that better than third-party...
At least there is only one url to block. Easy.

This stickers have arrived!!

First one is C++... I don't use C++ though... Is it trying to tell me something? 🤔🤔🤔

Two bytes meet ... first one asks the second ..."are u ill " .... second replies "no ... just feeling a bit off " :P

In just one week I have to make two presentations for my class, first one talk about open source and why everyone should use it and in the second one I have to explain how Git works and why it is so helpful for common projects.

It feels like God gave me an essential mission for life

It's a sad, sad day when your app gets its first one star review... 😢

Me encountering one of the many skype bots... but something was different this time, at first.

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

I'll probably accept a job offer as PM - the first one that understands Devs :)

You can start throwing stones at me now.

So cool remembering the day i recieved the free stickers. One of the first here in devrant.

Never thought I'd become one of those people who get really annoyed when my code works first time. I know I've made a mistake... why can't you be obvious!

What was a more important invention than the first telephone? The second one.

Who typed his/her first program with one of these?

When you're in your mid-twenties and get the first few wrist aches on your mouse hand and get anxious about possible carpal tunnel syndrome... I can't be the only one.

first real program was an 8x8 maze game on my ti-83+ calculator. wrote all as nested ifs, and if you took one wrong turn it'd run out of memory

Ada Lovelace 1834 (The First Programmer) Doctor Who season 12 😍
One of the reasons I love this show is how it brings history to life.

The DST Effect

I actually took that last one first. So uhm... I traveled back in time?

When you rise too early because you've lots of pending works to deal with but you're still confused which one to pick first!

No one tests in production like I do..
Just gave the wife a Brazilian wax for the first time.

I guess I could have tried on the dog first but ... No.

Just got selected for Udacity google scholarship!!!

It's two stage process
Got selected for first one
After 3 months if I did good enough I can be one of very few to get a nano degree program. There are 10000 in first program and only handful of 350 will be selected for nano degree.
Let's fucking get that one 💪
Looking forward to learn everything I can.
It's gonna be awesome year, finally some shit is happening 😬😄
How's your all week going ?

!Rant

The barman asks what the first one wants, two race conditions walk into a bar.

Finally, finally, finally! My very first app with React Native is up and running. I know the hard part comes now, but I'm so incredibly happy, considering that I didn't even think I would start developing an app until two weeks ago, let alone learning React...

browsed LinkedIn articles, saw one about "good qualities of WordPress Developer", first bullet point is "following coding best practices" is it just me or that is one of the main things wrong with WP

First time people have forked and stared one of my github repositories.
Kinda exciting, but also scary. (they're looking at my terrible code)

!rant
I just woke up a minute before one of my first neural networks finished training

!!rant
My laptops dual core cpu with 4 threads is slooooooooow

Just got one refurbished laptop (x220)

Going to install Arch (first time). Let's see how well it goes :-)

One thing I appreciate about my team - if someone makes a mistake, the first reaction after fixing it is: How do we prevent it from happening again?

Fun Story: My first official project was related to system files security. In first meeting project manager was talking about Macros and OLE i had no idea what the heck he was saying.just kept noding
Took us 2 months to complete the project now it has been deployed and working perfectly
Told my manager about this during final one on one meeting and he couldnt believe me,he still laughs about it everytime we meet

*Send 2 mockup options for new component*

Them: Nice! I'm torn, which one do you like?

Me: I like the first.

Them: Great, lets go with the second!

-.-

One week into my new job as a junior mobile developer I receive my stickers from devrant (for posts I made while still a project manager and self-studying to get where I am now) - on the same day I did my first 12hr workday to complete work for my first sprint.

So I've opened myself to new software engineering positions and was recommended one where the first *benefit* stated:

- High engagement opportunities across our global client base

Am I the only one for whom this is a gigantic red flag and con rather than a benefit? wtf

First time trying uncomplicated firewall (ufw) on Linux

Why did no one ever tell me configuring a fire wall was this easy

Hello world in different languages. Everyone can add a suggestion :) . No google translate!!! I give the first ones :)
Only one language per person! 😂

English: hello world

One of our internal apis returns an array in which the first element is metadata about the request.

Why would anyone want to punish their users like that

Am I the only one who feels terribly bored during first couple of hours in office....

Well, not necessary my favourite but the first one I learned.

I think the weird syntax and semantics combined with the ridiculous average length of variable names is a major flaw in this one.

I know I'm writing the correct integration tests when each one I add uncovers a new bug.

Still, it would be nice if just one of them passed first time.

You know you are one of those first elite members of devRant when you can have your first name as your username.

The feeling of the one error that you’ve been beating yourself over the head for...

And realize it was all your fault in the first place.

Just received and set up my first SSD (Samsung 860 EVO) with GNU/Linux!
Am I the only one who wonders how he was able to live without one for such a long time?

I didn’t really choose, I just happened to learn C# as one of the 3 first languages I learnt back then. It landed me multiple jobs and that’s about it really 🤷‍♂️

I'm one of the first to use devrant. Shoutout to all batchmates out there

Google Cloud onboarding conference here in Cape Town today! Supposedly the largest attendance of the event globally so far. Over 600 developers here! Also the first one in Africa.

Today is the first day of the last year of my bachelor's degree.
It's also the first day of work for one of my closest friends.
I wish him the best for this new adventure.

Good luck my friend and have a nice day !

I feel like only software engineers and IT can answer 2 part questions. Everyone else just answers the first one...

When you are waiting in the cold for first robotics with a bunch of devrant users and one of them complains about being cold.

Officially Azure az-900 certified! 🙂

One more step to go from third world to first hopefully?

My dev goals:
Want to publish my first app in this month and at least one more in the year. :)

Got my new PC at work, first reboot after fresh install of windows, BSOD. Nice one M$ ❤️

Ohhh, I get it. Apple thinks it isn't getting enough money from us by selling us one iMac, so it wants to sell us a second one by making the first one's memory physically non-upgradeable via soldered memory even though the software says it _could_ be upgraded.

A haiku, written in NodeJS:

This is the first line
This is the third line
This one is the second line

The Devrant community is about the second nicest I've came across in my life. The first one being the comments section of Vexento on yotube.

So in my company there is one other person that has exactly the same first name and last name as me, but that doesn't do dev thing.

Knew that one day I'd receive a mail that was destined to him.

First one in the office that can show off these bad boys :)

Finally got my new MacBook Air. I was beyond anxious to put the first stickers on it.

(The other devRant one is on the inside.)

Every work experience so far.

The first one... Internship abroad, very messy codebase, almost no code review.

At the end I was so tired I started watching movies during worktime.

• I listen to music
• I eat/drink something
• I go to the toilet and think about unrelated stuff (which might actually provide a solution)
• I go to sleep

I try the top one first, and if it doesn't work, the next one, and so on, until I am done with the last one.

Google wanted to be politically correct and gave faces different colors. But apparently using "black" or "asian" is a shame too so all of these emojies have same name.

This decision was very poor as it's hard to implement this duplicity in frontend so as always Devs choose easiest choice - just use the first one. And first one is always yellow...

Congrats on making whole lazy Dev world using your "correct" emojies enforcing only one face style.

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me!!!!

An error in PHP!!!

You'll get your next one on the second so you can rant at me!

Am I the only one to see the contradiction between the first point and the last one 🤔?

(Job post from Quartal Financial Solutions)

Finally Google kills off a product no-one wanted in the first place! First genuinely exciting announcement from Google in a LONG time. Good riddance Google+!

Some of the worst code reviews I had were at my 1st proper workplace which incidentally was the strictest one! I was such a lazy oaf and hated those.

Still don't like code reviews but I do admit those first ones did me a tom of good.

Nowadays when I am the one co ducting them I tend to be more relaxed and chill and not be a nazi coz I still remember the repulsion of my first ones ^^'

Got the newest update for Emojis and I was scrolling through them, and what do you know? This one popped up. All I can think of was "Devrant did it first"

The worst rejection was one after a first interview and a subsequent 3 hour code challenge. I was super nervous as it was my first code challenge in an interview that was one of my first. I wasn't confident when I submitted my work, but the time was up and so there wasn't much to be done.

The rejection was simple. Pure silence. No arguments, or feedback. Just didn't hear nothing back and that didn't help my fresh out of university self-confidence.

Slack is the second most memory hungry application on my laptop. Guess the first one?

About one week in my new entry level job and I feel completely clueless and useless. This is my first professional environment. Is this a normal feeling? What was your first programming job experience like?

!rant
My first real software job is my current one. Nothing to rant about: great colleagues, lot of challenging work. Plus I get to work remotely.

assume no one updates README

spend an entire day fighting a config issue

OR

first check README

because i saw the potential ((and) power) of games since the first moment i ever moved my joystick in one, and i wanted to be a creator of such powerful magical universes.

The first one

Really excited about Google Chat/RCS.
My mobile provider is probably the first one to support it in Austria!

the first time i tried flutter/dart i was coming from java and published an app composed of one seven thousand line dart file

Finished up my first ever pull request for open source, two files (one file just tested the other file), super short, and it got closed. Big sad.

None of my exes believed at first, one can be twice as obnoxious as Sheldon Cooper without being half as bright.

At first.

Reminiscing my first tech sticker, this one's from my first hack-a-thon. :') gonna go to the same one in 2 weeks, kinda nervous because I didn't really learn much compared to last year. (but I shamelessly collect the stickers)

I'm so proud of myself : my first PHP's white screen of death.

Now about that Java application crash... which one ? Oh you just wait a bit. *mischievous grin*

You are team:

MyFunction {
}

Or

MyFunction
{

}

For me it's the first one.

Every programmer's worst nightmare is when Stack Overflow says "You are the first one to ask this question".

Let me just put all this code in one place, get things working first I'll split it later.

One of my classmates is going to start working on MAINFRAME at a company as his first job after graduation.

I feel bad for him.

One year of work for request info on a new project, silence... First day of vacancy, request a how to on a function implemented 3 month ago. Fuck You...

We have a an existing legacy project full of sh*t. I am developing now an additional feature. What will you do if the one who will review your code is the one who developed this legacy project in the first place? @@#&#-$

>repo about the cool parts of modern php
>literally the first one is already a mindfuck antipattern

First case of Coronavirus in my Country 🇬🇭. This is going to be a tough one since customary, we greet by shaking hands and our public transportation system...

out of curiosity, what phone do you have? 📱

I myself have a One plus one, first generation (w/ cyanogen logo on the back), won via a Python script that I wrote 😎 I also use the TugaPower ROM 🇵🇹

We got drunk with the most geek friends, and now the subject is based on the pigeonhole principle, one of us drank at least one extra bottle :/
(this is the first time I've ever seen this principle being used properly 😂)

On this Saturday my first full project is going to production and I am unable to resolve one fucking critical bug without db hit. Well still trying..

First day in introduction to programming. We were the first course to learn Python instead of Java. The whole lecture consisted only of what Python is good for and how powerful it is.
He finished with the statement: “... and in the real life, no one writes applications in Python.“

Had one of those unicorn coding moments where my from-scratch code worked the first time I wrote and tested it. That hasn’t happened in a long time.

It is absolutely surreal on my first foray into the corporate world after contracting, to have to have some one that is not you do hardware fixes on your machine.

3days later i have an interview in a company, i messed up first one😂😎
but i study more again i hate making mistakes.

Step one, Find free time
Step two, complete first one first

Me in my first program:
mmm... i have a error in the brackets, i'll delete one bracket... mmmm... i have still errors, i'll delete one more... i have still errors, i'll add one more

First day of a group project and one of your group members utters the immortal phrase: "what's a get hub?"

!rant
made a first update to my game, its live and running. probably gonna do one more and move on to the next project.

Need motivation as a starting point. Forget about finishing side projects, need the motivation to start one first!

@all freelancers

How did you get your first work, I am struggling from a month to get one.

Amy suggestions??

Eric S. Raymond

Creator of GPSd and one of the first open sourcerers

I have two math final exams on the same day, and one is scheduled 30 minutes after the first one 🙁🙁

I fucking hate math, and this shit sure isn't helping me.

:-(
Firefox doesn't map correctly the controller (Xbox One) but it works on Chrome. (FF on Android Works)

This is literally the first time (for me) that something works on Chrome and not on FF. (at first shot)
usually it is the opposite.

One point for Chrome (this time)

but still 6,022*10²³ Points for FF.

3 weeks my projects don’t move, one because I am lazy because I hate integrating Stripe, the other because I feel guilty not working on the first one every time I open it.

Completing my first truly collaborative project. Was with one of my friends, learnt a whole lot about git.

I just got my first eyeglasses and my monitor is so small, I'll need to buy a bigger one xd, also I feel like I'm about to vomit...

Outside, 16 Degrees Celsius.

First one in the office, nice :)
Bathroom Break
Back in office
...
AC on blast at 12 FUCKEN DEGREES >:(

Following my last rant, my current employer told me it wasn’t right for me to assure a job first without telling him first I was planning on leaving.

How does that even work? Am I the only one who thinks that makes no sense at all?

Here is one Euro for you I earned by drinking :) Who come first...
Just tell me if it worked

the first days of going to your first work is one of the hardest phases for a programmer/developer. who else can relate? advice?

I got the job =)
My first one. Hopefully I learn a lot and don't have to post rants :P

Startuppers, hold in there. We are going to fall one by one but remember our field is strong and full of opportunities.

The first domino has fallen at my place and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do.

Which one should i get first?
- lpic1
- Comptia a+
Im at it academy , linux administration.
And can i get a job i US as foreginer with some of these certificates?

One of my first client avsked me what a email address was.... I'm 21

Computer at work is almost as old as the first wheel and super slow... Will they let me get a new one... Nope.

Just realized Courage the Cowardly dog was the first one to use ChatGPT.

Video title: Hoverbike (...)
One of the first sentences: “But just don’t call it a hover bike “

RailsConf, I'm here! First one to find me at the Westins bar gets a beer on me!

++ if you made your own cms system ^^ I just finished my first one

In the first one, the group would just not get to agree at something, they'd spend hours talking about an approach.

First times, I was like "Hey, why don't we do this?", they began to argue and half an hour later, they agreed to whatever I said in the first place (they didn't acknowledge what I said and they tell me they came with the solution and that I didn't say anything)

Fucking shit, if only they listened in the first time.

I dont know which one is more frightening!
Having a bug on the first run or not having one until production...

I just created my first service under systemd.

Having never made one under sysVinit I don't know how difficult it is, but I found this to be fairly easy.

Same offer. Two different prices. WOW.

Yes the first one is also capped at max 1 GB / Day.

Interviewer: What is typeof typeof []
Interviewee: I think it's Array

Interviewer: Why?
Interviewee: Because first one would return Array, so second one will also return Array

:/

When no one in the industry knows you because you still didn't land your first dev job, and you're not happy where you are,, but recruiters gotta lie to sound appealing!

The best feeling ever is when a super long line of code is written that definitely should not be on one line, that one does not check over the logic for after writing, entered without pressing the backspace key, and it works first try.

I've been travelling for 5 weeks, now I have the issue of too many project ideas, which one first?!