.... blockchain hype.. 😂😂🤣

Senior C++ developer:
"Writing a custom encryption algorithm from scratch for our communications platform? Every developer knows that is an absolute no go, cryptography should be left to cryptography veterans!"

Same guy, year later:
"Blockchains? Hold my espresso, I can totally write a whitepaper on cryptography, write some shitty code with nice branding, and get millions from an ICO"

Agile development in a nutshell

SAVAGERY LEVEL: 10000

**Overheard new intern struggling with git talking to lead developer

Intern: "I am having trouble with the git repo on my local machine, can you take a look?"

*** Looks at code for three seconds

Lead developer: "Yeah, I suggest you just delete and reclone the repo."

Just found out some of our smaller sites (wp) have been hit with a shell...
In fucking January.

My colleagues didn't think to tell me this.

They figured someone must have had the pass or something and started posting about Viagra...

No. It's the fucking ico vuln...

I hate work right now.

Why do most docs have grey text color over a white background! It's just incredibly difficult to focus on. And my brain is like a potato to begin with.

What fonts do you guys use?

LinkedIn is the new Facebook.

How do you celebrate GDPR? By having a breach

Fuck my life

Me: **Visits website with lots of ads

also Me : ** right clicks on element
** opens chrome inspector
** finds ad element
** deletes element

#LifeHacks

!rant

Frontend developers, what do you love/hate the most in your jobs?

Asked a client how they were getting on with the GDPR preparations, knowing they sometimes ask me to check documentation and such.

them: "Whats the GDPR"

me: "its the new European privacy law coming near the end of May, its ok, most of the work should be covered by your PCI DSS compliance paperwork with a few tweaks."

them: "oh, we just pay the non-compliance fee for that"

me: "wait what? well whose your data controller registered under the ICO required due to cctv being used"

them: "oh isnt that optional?"

me: "ok so heres my hourly, or i can quote for the whole compliance project"

I know not everyone is tech minded and GDPR hasnt been that well advertised, but jeez...

Indigogo is to retail what ICOs are to he financial industry.

- some random people think of an idea (ICO = token, IGO = magical dick cream)

- they both rely on well made but completely horse-shit marketing material

- they both spam your sites with the same repetitive ads

- they both offer discounts for getting in early (aka give us money before we have designed or built anything)

- they both make outlandish and sometimes illegal product claims (ICO = Visa is a partner, IGO = magic dick cream does magic things)

- in the end most of both options ends up giving you nothing at all and just running away with your money

- best case scenario they both deliver a product that is utterly worthless and meaningless

- everyone is hunting for that one coin or product that is a not a total scam.

I don’t hate indigogo but they certainly are shady as fuck. I’ve rolled the dice on then 4 times and got scammed on 2 of them. It’s basically a crap shoot.

I press Compile Again to remove the bug 🐛

advice && !rant

I'd love some advice from you iOS devs on devRant:

- Is it a solid career choice for a new grad? Does it limit your skillset early on?

- How open/active is the ecosystem and the open source scene?

- Storyboards? Yay or nay?

- What do you like the most about your job?

- What do you dislike the most about your job?

Thanks guys :)

I decided to make some new icons for Atom editor (the launcher/executable ones), because I liked the vscode-icons project.

Made the repo on GitHub and decided to automate making the icons for different OS using Travis CI.

Started writing the Python Script for Travis.
My google queries:

How to generate icons for Linux?
I can use SVG or generate a PNG, many libraries available. 👍👍

How to generate icons for Windows?
Generate PNGs of various sizes and pack in an .ico file. Easy enough

So far so good.

How to generate icons for Mac?
Mac needs a .icns file, a package of PNGs of various sizes. Libraries available but can be done on OSX only. 😫😫

Then I think, what OS does Travis use?
Oh, I can specify macOS in it 😁😁😁

Starts the build 😎😎

Travis doesn't support Python on macOS

😑😑😑😑

Do you guys think it would make sense to add polls to the rant categories?

Not the first time I've seen questions like "What's the average age of devRanters?" or similar, and polls would make it a whole bunch easier to read/write answers in those cases!

@dfox

P.S. Was this discussed before? If so, my bad!

Yesterday it worked!!😕

friday again , i can breath some fresh air 🥳

In a few weeks, we’re going to launch our ICO with a working MVP. As the lead developer for this, I’m nervous as to how people will scrutinize my work.

Dumb question: How do you check which email address is linked to your devRant account? (i.e. for the stickers email)

Name your favorite lesser known ico's, and why you think they have potential

Hey folks
Do u prefer Mac or Linux laptop for programming?! Why...?!

Not a rant, but was wondering:

If I undervolt Ryzen 5 3600 using Ryzen Master from windows, do I get the changes when I boot into my Linux distro? 🤔

Recent Software engineering graduate. (NO RELEVANT JOB EXPERIENCE also not a great programmer)
Most of the software engineers I have met are working in web development and mobile dev, I understand web and mobile I understand they are hard and require a lot more with APIS CLI and all the other things but I don't understand where is the engineering part in them. I also don't know what am I supposed to do as a software engineer.