Client: I want a mobile game with Leaderboards, Social media sign-ins, In-game store, Ads, IAP etc in 2 months

Me: Cool, what’s your budget?

Client: $50

That moment when you realise:
money != Happiness
Stickers === Happiness

The most awesome disabling ads deal ever seen.

It is so cheap, isn't it? 😂

in-App-purchases are so self explanatory in the App Store. Seriously, why can’t you at least just write something like premium, but only write the apps name?...

Ok... Now the fun stuff can begin :)

Automate this!

I'm an aspiring coder working some chappy administrator job just to pay the bills for now. My boss found out that I may actually be more computer literate than I let on.

Boss: "I want you to make X happen automatically if I click here on this spreadsheet"

Me "X!? That means processing data from 4 different spreadsheets that aren't consistently named and scraping comparison info from the fronted of the Web cms we're using"

Boss: "if you say so.. Can you do it?"

Me: "maybe.. Can I install python?"

Boss: "No..."

Me: "what about node.js or ruby?"

Boss: "no.. I don't know what you're talking about but you're not installing anything, just get it done"

Me: "Errm Ok.."

So here I am now, way over my head loving the fact that I'm unofficially a Dev and coding my first something in Powershell and vb that will be used in business :)

Sucks that I still have to keep my regular work on target whilst doing this though!

Free python courses/study material? (online)
Thinking of learning python bcuz of how popular it is. Any websites/apps for beginners (that also extends to advanced without IAP or other form of payments)?
Thanks in advance.

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

Hey.com is super cool and really fast. Too bad the Apple problem has become a sizeable barrier. This is a "fuck you Apple!" situation 😐

Tries to automate login with vb using I.E...

Gets stuck because login page is a hive of nested iframes with deep nested tags without defined names

FML

Thought i'd try using VSCode.. initialized folder for git... and then proceeded to delete all my nodeschool work that i'd done over the past year... ARAGH!