Dude, remote work in a country side city makes me feel like people think I'm a drug dealer or something

I never leave my house

Fuck relationships, the only relationship I can have and maintain is with my Linux or in my databases.

!rant

Yesterday I got my first promotion that was based on merit and not because I graduated or moved company 🍻

#feelsgoodman

I’m so stupid for not starting a Youtube channel or buying Bitcoin.

Stop using anal as a variable or function name wherever I look I see anal_this and anal_that please stop. Use analyze, analyzer or whatever and not anal_insert ( ) or anal_check ()

Algorithm: “Choose the blueberry muffins. Or, maybe the dogs. I dunno, I need more help here.”

People who message “I’m getting a error” without any context or even better the actual error message, no one else can see your screen and we can’t magic a fix, and we’re not f***ing psychic, tell us what the f***ing error is. Or better yet, figure it f***ing out like the rest of us, you also have google - go nuts

!rant I think I may have a way smaller head than the pattern I was using seemed to assume. 😅

(Or my stitches got messed up along the way. Either is possible.)

Scrum Master: Let's estimate the task. Chose your estimations individually, then we will reveal at the same time and discuss
- variety of votes, ranging from 1 to 8
Product Owner: I don't agree, this should be a 1 or 2.
Dev Team Lead: Agreed, this is why I chose 2. Let's vote again.
- All votes now are 1s or 2s

Good fucking job 🤨

"Update on the last meeting, we'll either release what we've got or do something different"

WELL NO SHIT! 🤦‍♂️

New client: can we go live next month?
Me: do you think you are our only client, or do you want to pay an extra priority fee?
New client: what?
Me: what?

*Crickets"

Manager: Dev, you will submit to my leadership and surrender all common sense to agree with what I say or face consequences.

Dev: Manager, Fuck you!

Everyone is getting too sensitive. Soon enough you can’t call someone a noob or a junior.

Expat issues of the month is that the HR is taking its sweet time, while I'm trying to find a house and probably need to provide employment certificate or some shit.
So basically, I'll arrive in a month and either be homeless, crash on a friend's at least an hour and half away by PT, or pay for hotel or airbnb.

... Heaven and hell, could you please work together on solving this, particularly the house issue? Because neither am I made of money nor my nerves can currently take this, specially with this upcoming surgery thing. 🙏

Ofc github goes down right when i need it. DAMN YOU microsoft. Its down for 2 hours now or so.

Another shitty shitty day.

That's all I wanted to post. Don't ask or comment or bother.

Keep scrolling.. thank you!

Learn to read documentation and don't rely on 5 minute Youtube tutorials, stackoverflow or dev blogs for every little thing.

Do you think being a great software engineer is simply hard work and passion?
Or there is also a component of natural affinity, certain personality traits, etc.

DXB (airport)'s WiFi doesn't let you call through whatsapp or telegram or even discord. It also does not let you send a whatsapp voice message, which has me very puzzled.

And all I wanted to do was to call my mom. ☹️
(I might also be running a slight fever, which makes me very emotional and sensitive)

Is this the real life or is this just burnout

At what point do I stop being a Jr dev? Is it a time spent in the field type of thing?

Or is everyone a Jr dev and titles are pointless.

Stuck in between getting a job or starting only fans.

Let me make this clear.. overusing ξ, ζ and ς in your equations or formulae does not(!!) make you smart!

What's a bigger sin.

Returning a status code of 200 and then the message body saying "An Error Occurred"

or

Only performing data validation on the frontend.

New name for the paper: The New Yor(login or subscribe to read the full name of the news website)

Most people on Twitter:
Pinned tweet is self-promotional in nature, either advertising some accomplishment, something they’re selling, or introducing people to what they’re about as a person.

Me:

2022 Dev Goal: Find a way to retire early so I never have to build another website or write another line of code again. It’s been over 25 years and I’m just done and over it.

devrant needs DRAFT.

I left so many rants unposted because I felt stupid or cringy AF after writing it.

i don't know bash

i don't like to read or write bash

why am i stuck updating bash scripts

Article 13 and 11 passed today. Fucking why! They ether have absolutely no brain or are sleeping on a shitload of money right now. No one wanted this. First net neutrality now fucking this. Fuck this shit.

I promised myself I wouldnt program or study after midnight.

And here I am, making flash cards for git like a total dork, and it's almost 1 am.

I can't tell if XCode is a torture device or just very badly written.

Is it just me or C is actually the best language to exist?

Why are all (or at least 90%) the programming courses so booooring?

I wish I could tell my dog not to get up from his comfortable position or sleep each time when I simply want to goto the bathroom or stretch.
Like bro no need I’ll be right back..

uSE AnY pRogrAmMinG L@ngu@g3 yOu liKe.

1nTervi3weRs Do N0t CarE aBouT tHe L@nGuAge.

Fuck you. Stop asking time complexity or space complexity of functional code. No one fucking knows.

There are indie devs which still builds games for the NES or the first GameBoy... and then we have Apple which goes to extra lenghts to ensure which nobody can develop, publish or install new apps on devices which are too old for the newer iOS versions.

Java or javascript

I can't motivate myself to read or understand all these papers and tutorials... I wish I had a backup brain somewhere. 🙄

Love how DoD work requires sec+ certification but as you are learning the material you realize they don’t follow any procedures or practices.

First day back and everything is on fire or broke

Stories from Gary #000

Short background info:
So I'm working as a game dev for 3 years now and by now I can say that I've seen some shit. Mostly because of one of our game designers, let's call him Gary.

So Gary, from here on called GDG (Game Designer Gary), is a regular game designer (GD). His job is to come up with new game ideas, commission the assets, make sure that translations are done, etc. - simply put, he has to get a lot of shit together before we can start working on a new game.

Would be no problem at all if GDG wasn't lazy as shit and would work for once in his life. No dev really wants to work with him anymore, since he's known for calling a game or any issue "ready for development" even if half the assets or specs are still missing.

Let's move on to a particular situation that happened a couple of months ago.

I had an issue assigned to me, which was about implementing the translations for a new game. As I read the issue and checked if everything I needed was given, I noticed that the most important part was in fact missing - the keywords for the translations.

-.-

So, I called GDG and asked where I could find the keywords, to which he responded "Oh, I'm working on them right now... and by the way I got a weird bug with the translation program. Can you come check it out?". Sigh. I went over to his office, rambling about how I should be able to help him with a program I rarely use and which was written ages ago.
As soon as GDG saw me coming roundbthe corner, he started explaining how the keywords aren't ready yet, since the program to create translations and their keywords won't let him name a translation.

"I can create new translations, but I can't assign a keyword to them."
"Okay, show me what you did", I told him, eager to leave.
He started to type the keyword, which turned out to be huge ass long and immediately I noticed a little counter, like "x/50", directly beneath the text field started to count up with every new character GDG typed. See where I'm going with this? HE WASNT ABLE TO RENAME A TRANSLATION BECAUSE HE WAS TOO LAZY TO FUCKING READ AND CONCENTRATE FOR ONCE. Sorry for that, but even thinking about it gets me angry again.

To some this might sound like nothing, but it really got to me at this point. Maybe it will become more understandable as I post more GDG stories.

tl;dr: A 40 something year old man, who's been working in his job for over 10 years wasn't able to use a program which he daily uses and asks me for help, only to find out he's a complete dipshit.

delete unused code according to IDE

unit with context tests now fail

what is a good alternative industry or career instead of software development

I swear to God, I have gut wrenching feeling every morning before work or when I think about work. My stomach actually hurts now.

I swear my brain has 2 sides:
1: c or c++ would be great for this project
2: lol c++ hard so nodejs
1: but c++ would be so much faster and c-
2: NODEJS

To Blockchain or not

Me: Explaining what I do for a living (strip's title)

So true though as most of the workday is not coding...

Or is that how you explain all that typing (coding) to a layman?

I hate being in program purgatory. You don't know whether your program froze, or the CPU is hustling to crunch out those numbers. To kill or not to kill. That is the question. Q.Q

I’m doing an internship, this is worst experience. No structure whatsoever,I don’t think they care about our interests. They’re just giving us coding stuff without even knowing if we’re interested or not in that particular field or technology. They made me code in c#. I’ve never used that a day in my life. The backend is big and complex with no comments or proper documentation(no documentation at all), only thing they gave us are some flow charts. I’m stressed out tbh.

The Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth

had no idea what burnout was or meant until I had a fucking cerebrovascular accident.

drop shitty companies.

TDD has not been proven in studies to provide substantial reduction in cyclomatic complexity or other metrics of software development.

Creating a git repository and forgetting to commit and push. And not only after ending the project or nearly ending the project...

And fucking commenting stuff

Repository maintainers that close the issues without much explanation or a good solution just to lower the number of open issues...(┛ಸ_ಸ)┛彡┻━┻

all the fun people at my workplace have either been fired or they have left. my workplace is bone dry now

Honestly, I think this one is yet to come for me.

I've had a few bad experiences, but the worst ones are the ones where I couldn't find the time or brain to get some work done properly and therefore did bare minimum, so I basically was driven to shame because my teammates did almost everything.

Second to that, are times where I had to go through drama because teammates were absolutely incompetent or power hungry or inflexible.

Otherwise, it's "live and let die".

Note: I use "teammate" in general sense, equaling "coworker", "colleague", "the guy who's supposed to give me details or access" and "those in on the project" in this rant.

Do you use the well known "pattern" for positioning fingers on the keyboard for faster typing, or you just came up with your own "pattern" as time passed?

I’m trying to explain the theory behind ‘Rubber Duck Debugging’ and to be honest, they don’t believe me 😂 they say I’m drunk. Help me out here, who else uses a rubber duck or something similar to help debug code?

Why do Android apps not clear their own irrelevant notifications?

For example: If I mark all notifs as read within the devRant app, or archive an email in Gmail, or read a message in the Jira app, why does it not clear the status bar notification?

Is there a good reason, or is it just often overlooked by developers to perform a cleanup action like this?

Fuck YouTube and their sponsored content!
You can clearly see they get paid to promote certain videos as they pop out of nowhere, regardless of your interests, and no matter how many time you click "I don't like this" or "don't recommend channel".
It can be simple stuff like Warthunder vids (which I don't play and never searched for),
Or complex like the Amber Heard trial - vids that make her look foolish. Feels like Depp dropped some serious cash on YouTube to make him look like a victim! (regardless if he really is or not)
Isn't there a law that sponsored content must be marked as such?

I shouldn’t dread doing my work every day, right? Or is that just the norm for everyone?

Putting mobile phone to DnD.

Putting on Bluetooth headsets with ANC, blasting some good shit music.

Violently cooking or desperately ordering food at the good restaurants.

While waiting, grinding some coffee beans, making fresh coffee or some nice tea with milk.

Laying on the sofa in a food induced coma, turning on any streaming service with the real bad shitty movies.

Hentai Kamen, The Machine Girl, ...

Anything thats either pure groteske bullshit or that doesn't require more than a braincell cause it appeals either to the violent or complete nonsense side of my brain.

Last but not least, a few cold beers.

ANC headset stays on, just switching from music to tv - shutting out all the outside noise.

(Internal IT communication)
- Which one is the right email account for xxxx ? aaaa@ourcompany.com or bbbb@ourcompany.com?
- Yes, that's the correct one.

sometimes i wish i could differentiate between the result of skill, dumb luck or privilege

They say to learn a language you need to watch movies or cartoons in it, recommend something in C++ pleaseee?

Thinking about switching jobs...

Do you prefer working in a smaller startup sized company, a bigger more settled one, or as a consultant?

Hey, all you shitty devs who give my Udemy courses 1 or 2 stars with no comment or feedback

FUCK YOU!!!!

Programmer writer's block (or trying to name a variable):

astrophysicist is rushing to the toilet and thinking “is it a brown dwarf or a gas giant”

god... why is the stupid "tAbS oR sPaCeS?" still around, it's like some stupid ass HR person got it long ago and it's never gone away. nobody has used tabs to write or format code since like the 1950s when there were mechanical fucking typewriters! and if you use them today in your editor, you're WRONG

I will die on this hill.

Dev: Woah look at this code! I might be a genius!

Also dev a few months later: Woah WTH is this shit? Was I totally dumb or what?

Do you devs spend on learning ? Like paid courses etc. Or not at all ?

Finally found a community/platform to open up and get out all pent-up thoughts or should I say deeds done in the tech field. LOL

If I ever run my own engineering team I shall ban all meetings after 12 PM. Or permit meetings only on 2 days of the week.

"Old Person" (noun):
Someone who refuses to wear earplugs, headphones or other personal hearing aid audio devices while demanding, but not paying attention to, a living room television set on the loudest possible volume.

I can't decide which linux distro i should use...
Should i take Kubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 18.04?

Question for those that switched from Web, Mobile Apps development, Full-stack development to Game development after a year or more:
- Do you regret the change?
- What Game engine do you use?
- What Programming language do you use?

WebMD says my symptoms are consistent with either fatigue or cancer. Let’s hope more sleep fixes this 🥴😳😴🥱💤

Is it just me or does the search find a very limited set of rants for everyone? Maybe it finds only the most recent ones?

!dev

There are two weeks left until the PhD application results are published. But I'm having such awful nervous breakdowns. I don't even know, if it's anxiety or if I'm literally dying inside from something else. From an almost-heart-attack today when I got a trivial and unrelated bad-news email, to keep having weird dreams about things like end of the world and post-apocalyptic life, or being jumpy all the time.

... And it's not like it's life or death, I know that. I know that I can do other things if this doesn't stick. I know things will workout the way they should; I know all of those. But there's just something destroying my physical and mental health right now, and I don't even know if it's just the anxiety for the next big step in my career, or something else, or how I should deal with it.

... Anyways, amannoyed.

I have the feeling that the whole software industry is not making any real progress anymore. Or at least not at that speed like for 10-20 years or so. Now one company doing something somehow innovative and everybodys copying that shit and start a feature battle. Just to have more reasons to suck you into their ecosystem and grab your wallet.

So. Here's a cooking thread.

Please behave nicely, get ya favorite recipes out or your "my brain is melting and I randomly chop sueyed hot cooked this stuff together and it was awesome" creations.

I think I've reached some kind of job nirvana. My coworkers and I all complain about our work. We're overworked, underappreciated, underpaid, and and have to deal with all sorts of bullshit all the time. Pretty much everyone who has been on the team longer than a year is talking about quitting.

But I started at this company as a level 1 tech support phone technician before I transferred into the DevOps side of things, and that tech support job was SO much worse. Way more stressful, way less pay, mandatory overtime, horrible scheduling, being forced to remain calm while people hurl insults at you over the phone, and it was a dead-end job with a high turnover rate and almost no opportunities for advancement of any kind.

And every time I think back on that job, I realize that what I have now is actually pretty great. I'm paid well (still underpaid for the job I do, but catching up really fast due to my current boss giving me several big raises to keep me from quitting lol). I deal only with other tech people like developers and data scientists so no more listening to salesmen insult me on the phone. I'm not in any sort of customer service role so I can call people on their bullshit as long as I'm professional about it. I'm salaried so they can't make me work horrible shifts. 99% of my days are a normal 9-5 workday. I actually have a reliable schedule to plan around.

People treat me like the adult that I am.

I'd get a similar experience at other, better-paying companies, for sure, but what I have now is still pretty great.

I'm sure I'll be back in a few days to rant about more nonsensical bullshit and stress, but for now I'm feeling the zen.

open file in eclipse while server is running

i haven't made any code changes or saved anything

ECLIPSE: I GOTTA REBUILD

what music do you like to listen to when you're coding (or working in general)? what gets you into the zone?

When the test you spent an hour writing passes on the first try… not sure if I should be happy or anxious.

brew install node

keeps going for more than 5 minutes, installing idk dependencies or doing idk wtf

fuck javascript and its ecosystem

"we use story points as an estimate for how much time something will take to complete" or "X story points means Y days of work"

fucking kill me

Drunk coding, good or bad idea?

quora starting to require payment or login or something L-O-L

gl w/ that

Am i a fucking peace of shit or is installing MySql one of the shittiest things?

!rant
Just got told that there will be a 5KM run in march by my teacher.
I will either break my foot a day before or simply fucking refuse.

I'm ill enough already.

i was probably 4 or 5, my mom brought some educational games from school and I'd often play them. I don't remember a time before computers though

Is there a scientific term for *that* window of time where you feel totally unproductive before or after a call/standup? How long is it for you?

Someone please explain to me how error messages such as
"Something went wrong" or "Critical error" are valid and provide little to no follow up explanation in the GUI, Logs, or client logs.

I get that not all error cases can be displayed on a GUI, but at least have decent error handling. Especially if your $8+ billion company.

Which is worse? A shitstorm written in php 5 or asp webforms

What are some great advices given to you by your senior or mentor?

Once upon a time i have seen a block of code in a while (2 > 1) ... it was in C (or so i remember), but still...

Mah noob wannabe language designer side here again...

...Idea: Automatic/implicit interfaces.

1. do you know a language that has (something like) this?

2. good idea or a bad idea? why?

3. thanks :)

Bang-bang or not-not?
!!

Whats the state of mobile development skills demand atm?

Thinking of getting into crossplattform development with flutter or kotlin or enhance my dev skills in native android development (10years exp.) and create me a base project with jetpack compose.

Advice appreciated.

Go assign a super simple ticket to your "product owner" or "manager" or whoever the hell claims they "work so hard" and "have the vision" or whatever blah blah blah when in reality YOU'RE the one working 12 hour days, completing the features used by THOUSANDS.

Just try it. They'll never complete it. I guarantee it. Here I am looking at one that is three weeks old asking to update the f&*(@#$ credit card credentials for a simple log service to be reactivated.

So sick of this backward world where us devs never get any credit.

Who wants to start a software union with me?

I want to start with Arduino stuff.
Some tips which board i should buy?
Or some tips for a Hello World or something like this?

Work so hard that you're too mentally exhausted to even think about how your life could be better or more enjoyable.

It's been like a decade since I first heard of Kotlin. So wanted to ask:

Kotlin, Yay or Nay?

Does anyone of you own a Microsoft Surface?

What are your thoughts on Surface vs. Mac.

For my next laptop upgrade, I am thinking to invest in a decent one which lasts of half a decade or longer.

Mac is surely out of question.

Have had terrible experience with Lenovo and Sony. Don't quite like HP or others.

Remaining options are Surface or Dell.

"A or B ?"
"Yes. A or B."

Why do I bother.

I don't know if on the outside it seems like I know my shit and I know what I'm doing or not, but on the inside, I have no fucking idea what I'm doing. I'm just going with my gut and hoping for the best and I don't know if people are actually falling for that or not.

Ramadan and dev work can either go really hand in hand, or it doesn't :(

Now, why would Teams calls only work on Chrome and not Firefox? Is anyone aware of any technology constraints, or is it just Microsoft being dicks?

I'm thinking on getting keypass as my password manager, since it's open source, can use csv files and works on a bunch of platforms.
Does anyone has experience with using it or can recommend, in their view, some better solutions?

I HATE being a fullstack dev. I am responsible for everything. Its so exhausting because you cant focus on one thing.

Or its just me not being able to organize things....

Fucking mongo, fucking nested documents in nested documents that need to be filtered. I'm either really fucking dumb, the query is hard or both.

Posting (ranting) about your problems or emotions online might be an instant anesthetic to the problem but it diverges one away from the issue and the solution.

IDK why I get annoyed by underscores before private member names... Is i it useful or just an old relic?

So, after reading a post I started wondering...
Would you prefer to work in a toxic environment but have a good salary or work in a good environment for minimum wage?

I'm in the second position right now.

Boss wants Kotlin for all projects.
Reason : he like its. (Basically hyped by other developers or meetings)

I hate Java and itz other shitz

# Dev goals 2022

- Learn more Rust
- Create a steady source of side income by completing and monetizing side projects, creating NFTs, or maybe assisting a boot camp with tutoring or something (FT dev job is a start up which I like but nothing is certain.)

Is there anyone here who dealt with gaming addiction? I want real world responses, succes or failure stories. Not some third rate blog post copy paste replies please.

One thing that I've noticed is that devs are the most stupid human beings while doing estimation or planning for the sprint. And I'm a dev too

Two words, red bull.

I dont drink coffee often or drink it otherwise, so it gives a real kicker to the old brain.

I love C and C++ but their dependency management stuck, there’s a package manager for them which offers a nice experience comparable to Go or Rust?

Programmers are very opinionated. They either think their tool/language is the best thing since sliced bread; or they think it’s the worst thing since the Austrian painter who got rejected from art school.

East or West.... I am the best.

I want to access my Server from anywhere. Should i use something like noip.com (DynDNS)? Or is there a better way?

Do any of you people use SublimeText? Or is it dead 🤔💭

Whether you want to make friends at Annenerbe’s underground ice cities in Antarctica, or chill with Irene Roomberg on world govt. superblimp, remember that they only speak Sanskrit or Ithkuil. They respect Latin though, and for me that was enough, as it’s way easier to learn.

this DUDE never hits tab when traversing directories or does ls.

like a something path.

Any good resource for dev related news/blog posts?
It would be nice if you can filter dor specific languages or topics.

Why management loves to have excessive meetings about something that can be easily solve with one email or a text?

Stepping through the source code of a no-code-graphical-programming-tool (or however you call that) to understand why my stuff isn't doing its thing or at least see what it wants from me.
Very intuitive

its hella hard to code when I keep having to deal with people or join these meetings :/

Is it me or Day Zeros are more popular nowadays. I feel all I do all day is fight vulnerabilities

Deep learning is probably (????) the only research branch where every successful paper title needs to be a stupid acronym or meme

I work in a conversational AI startup and the new intern that joined yesterday didn't understand half the memes or acronyms (especially all the Simpsons related) because apparently he's "Gen Z" and all the paper title is "Millennial" humour

He's only 2 years younger than me. Am I literally at the millennial - GenZ border ? Or the intern is out of touch ?

Does anyone interact with posts by linkedin "influencers" or recruiters that isn't an "influencer" or recruiter themselve?

Do people exist that actually use linkedin as a social media site?

@dfox I can’t seem to post any rants or joke/meme posts with images attached on iOS.

oftentimes I believe we are in simulation because of the unique fingerprints. It's like a uuid. Or a PK.

Bleh, the game awards winners are a bunch of console hand-me-downs, or console exclusives. Fuck AAA games.

!dev

So my (public) health insurance should cover a test I'd like to make. But if I don't want to call a bunch of clinics every week for months only to get an appointment a year later eventually I'll have to pay myself (to get an appointment in a few months instead).

Recruiter: We are looking for a full-stack expert. You have taken multiple apps from conception to deployment, and have experience and opinions on the best technologies to use and why. You should be comfortable implementing new features from scratch, making changes to existing features and writing complex migrations on production data.

Dev: lol

Eat my favourite snack, listen to some music, and some isolation or good company helps me relax.

I’m goin nuts here. I’m trying to build a website and everytime i think i’m finished the designer adds a little change or an extra page. Meanwhile projectmanager is asking if we can finish asap. Fuuuuuckofffff

Why are CSS animations so funny? I always have the best laughts when some page or element spin uncontrollably for no reason

Notifs, anyone?
Is that still a thing or have they been featured to oblivion?

I feel like whoever works with Magento full time either has ascended or completely lost their sanity.

wtf is up with node-sass? Basically every project I've ever worked on breaks because it can't build with node-gyp anymore or whatever

Definitely the time when already had the job and had been getting no negative feed back or anything, then suddenly half way through the third month of my three month probation "Yea, we're not keeping you"

I was wondering what do you guys think about companies which dictates which ide devs have to use.
In my opinion every dev should use what he or she can utilize best no matter if a free or paid license is required for the ide.

Please share a playlist or a song, no language or locale preference.

Good morning devs let’s rock this weekend 🥳
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You’re going to do something productive? 😎

Im kind of a generalist. So i applied for anything in the companies i was interested and picked the highest paying one that had no or few red flags. So now im a full stack developer mostly focused on backend.

Believe me or not but there are some companies that do test their software on prod and ignoring users complaining.

What you think of this?

Drop ur salary negotiation tactics with FAANG or any of the large companies👇

Can github (not google) copilot be run on a company server? Or some scaled down version?

I could see this being useful for a version that only parses the code the company wants it to parse. Like an existing codebase. I often find snippets on how to solve something in the existing codebase, but it is usually hit or miss.

Money or growth?

I'm mid level SE, looking to get promoted to Senior Level in January 2023.
(context: there are 4 levels before Engineering Manager or Software Architect in our company - 1 (or junior), 2 (or mid), 3 (or senior), 4 (or lead)...

But my total pay (way too good for my age at my place, but Software Engineers specially in FAANG and FAANG-like companies are overpaid here compared to the rest of the market.

My company, an Amazon's competitor in local market, earlier used to pay almost same as Amazon (or slightly higher to attract talent).

Recently, due to splurge of remote jobs, the MNCs started opening more offices (likes of Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman, Morgan etc) hence the salaries increased even more.

Amazon for example, recently gave 33% increment on base pay recently.

Taking their base salary equal to my total pay (including stocks, bonus).

Should I switch for money or stay for growth?

mass exodus from a company but apparently nobody has the balls (or foolishness) to tell them the pay is dogshit

escapees may be operating under the model that it doesn't benefit them to tell the truth to the company

absolutely hilarious and baffling that the company feigns ignorance on this or is genuinely incompetent

Anyone here working as a consultant/contractor or running their own firm? How did you get into it? Where do you find clients?

What are some of you favorite tools from your toolset? be it software, hardware, some plugin or even some hack you use often

Fucking Windows sporadically gets into an endless loop of playing the sound of a USB device plugged in and out. It requires one or two reboots to fix it. I’ve tried everything, nothing else helps.

Is google glitching or is it just me

Question: For those of you who went math mode, did you ever look back? Was your future grim, happy, or does that even matter at all?

Do you prefer a quiet environment whilst working or prefer to listen to something? In case of the latter, what do you usually play?

Does anyone know if it's possible to install a VM (Linux or Windows) on a Linux Server without GUI and then connect to the aforementioned VM via Remote Desktop? If yes, has anyone done it before?

GMail -> New Filter -> Includes "Magento" or "Specialist" in subject or body -> Delete Immediately

God I hate scrubby spam bots

What is your most favorite CS Book or one that influenced you a lot and why/how?

So, the reason the world sucks, is they look at restoring everything to a livable situation as going backwards.

Back to a better time
Back before a person knew something
would have saved us all a lot more youth life and hardship if they'd pulled their heads out of their asses and realized the generalized TRENDS are not hard and fast rules like they try to make them.

Easier for nothing to be forever most especially if they didn't lie so much. Like saying someone is dead who is not, or someone is alive who is not, or messing with someones finances or stress levels or pretending that a person isn't able to return to a profession after a hiatus or that hardship that makes a person blameless for unemployment etc is a life ender because some younger idiot is always on the way.

or how about just the dynamic of losing everything due to losing/leaving a job, being incarcerated, or having a health problem. these things are ALL exploitable concepts that are taken advantage of every day when they should be insulated against so society can thrive and be safeguarded against the most warped members of the human race.

if we wrote code the way they govern or live everytime someone kicked their box something would work, and everytime they hit enter more than once their machine would overheat and turn off.

hell or if you waited a few seconds it would delete your whole database.

Do you think there are more doors or wheels in the world???

So Im planning to build a pc, which i will mainly use it for dev and gaming in free time, my main components will be:
CPU: INTEL 8700K
GPU: GTX 1080 msi or gigabyte?
SSD: 860 EVO
RAM: 16GB 3200MHZ
MOTHERBOARD: should i go with msi or gigabyte whixh one is better?
PSU: 650W or 700W deepcooler?

Also for the cpu cooler do i get water colling or a standard cpu fan?

P.S: i plan to overclock the cpu and gpu at some point.
Also whats your opinion on the rgb lightning gpu and motherboard, and is there point in getting a mobo with sli support (is it work buying second gpu at some point or better upgrade the existing)

Does anyone have any experience (good or bad) with turing.com?

getting mogged by people with less experience and/or spending less effort

it's almost a talent for me to be this bad at being a code monkey

do you guys have stories about burnout or boreout?

Was always wondering how different programmers perceive their IDEs: for front-enders it's simple lightweight cool-looking notepad when majority of back-enders uses heavy tank-looking shit like intellij or eclipse with guns, rifles and much more shit

I’ve been very unlucky, undertalented, or underfunded with scaling issues. Can’t think of a time I ever successfully scaled a website or application to a faster performance because of any or all of those three factors.

love the gruvbox theme. be it in nvim or vscode.

Hi!
I wonder what do you do when you are waiting for docker image gets built or github jobs get done?

Limitation as a way to force creativity. What do you think about this?

Platforms such as Vine or Twitter limits you somehow, but people still found a way to build their creativity around and grow a following. At the same rate, most Game Jams give you a theme and sometimes some kind of limitations and the result is in almost every jam at least a few interesting games.

Now, looking specifically at dev work, some frameworks or languages limit you somehow. Lets think about Rust safety or Node single threadness.

Do you think those work as limitation to enhance creativity as well? Not necessary by design.

So... This month I will start a new role in a new company as a Tech Lead. This is my first time in this position. Any suggestions or tips from you guys are appreciated.

Is spamming an active or passive attack?

Is undefined a real category or have I been fooled?

when a senior likes to kick up a fuss on PR reviews, you'll do whatever dumbass shit they want in most cases, assuming it works

but its a relief when a tech lead or architect tells them to fuck off

Does any one know how Containers (?) like Zip or exe files work? I mean when you open it with a texteditor you can't see much?!

Tell me, is an IT guy an orientation or a diagnosis? 👨‍💻

I'm planning to switch from ownCloud to Nextcloud in the next weeks. Does anyone have experience with that or maybe some advice? Aside from creating Backups.

Client: bug: downloading invoice pdf filename is F0000%20client%20project.pdf, fix this!

Dev: Safari browser has this problem since 2014, options are installing chrome on mac or saving file as F0000_client_project.pdf

Client: no, fix this!

Dev: 😫

What are your coffee/tea drinking habits?
Do you prefer coffee, tea, or other beverages? ☕ 🍵
Do you use a coffee maker/machine or something else?

I'm wondering if I should invest in a coffee machine 🤔

Which VR headset is best to develop applications for? HTC Vive or Oculus Quest 2?

17,000 USD a year?! That's outrageously high (for a Philippino)!! This dev must either be a god or they're ripping us off!

"npm install" or "npm i"

In the midst of considering to be an AI engineer, data science or embedded programmer.

Plan to retire from mobile dev, backend dev and webdev.

Take a walk, or focus on something else for a while, then after I've had a break I can return to whatever the problem is.

C or Go? Next language to learn.

Got an interview with Amazon in a week. I’m at the interview loop stage where I do 5x 1 hour interviews. Anyone work at Amazon and got any recommendations on what I should study or how I should prepare?

Is it me or it's just the fact that web development never goes down my throat

Open question:

Do you and your dev team openly embrace using a formatter for your projects, or do you not? And why?

My senior dev is trying to argue that it creates too much noise for commits, especially on older files and it's driving me nuts because I religiously use it (default TS formatter in VSCode btw, nothing crazy or super opinionated!)

So in PEP 594 of Python, some standard library modules are getting deprecated. Sorry for anyone who still uses aifc or crypt.