Just because you're special doesn't mean that you are useful!!

Always include special characters

Manager (walking in in the morning): ey linuxxx, looking good today!
Me: w-what? I'm not wearing much special, what's so great about my outfit? But than....
Boss: April fools motherfucker!

Well, I had it coming .______.

Second meet up with @CoffeeNCode 😁

Having some good special beers 😍

Cheers devRant!

Special place in hell for those who have autoplay video on their website, especially news sites

I'll probs reach 95K today. I want to do something 'special' when I reach the 100K.

Any ideas?

Also dfox/trogus, special 100K item maybe? ;P

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!

Two weeks ago:
customer - we need a small website, nothing special. Give us your cheapest option
*proceeds and give them the cheapeast offer, the accept and deploy their site*

Today:
I "notice" a spike in trafic, 20k request / second, and many sessions had 60-70 MB (big videos on the site) in size which cause the gateway to die and almost killed the entire hosting platform.

"Nothing special" turns out to be a website for a big campaign that they are currently running on TV, Radio, Paper and AdWord.

I think my laptop is a special kind of special ... 🙃

And he actually paid for this special plate :|

Happiness is being home at Friday evening, having a few special beers, doing server setup/stuffs with good music on and genuinely loving what you're doing!

It was great meeting some fellow ranters of this awesome community! Thanks for the nice evening and special thanks for @linuxxx for the ducky 😄

Still haven't thought of a proper rant to celebrate my achievement but for now, what about a selfie of me with a celebration special beer!

People that use their phone on speaker (and have it set loudly) in public are a special breed of jackass

There is special place in hell for developers who make add-on for Internet Explorer and Edge.

I really need to get my lazy ass up and get the fuck to work on the privacy site.

Yeah let's fucking do that. I've got a nice special beer as motivation as well!

At the risk of getting people butthurt.
Why do you all have to post linux-installation screens?
*Look at me, I'm installing linux, I'm in the elite, I'm so special*

I'm sorry snowflakes, but you don't see people posting images about installing Windows and being like 'I'm so special'.

Dear AAA game developers, if your game ran at 30 FPS on the prior generations and you remaster it but keep it at 30 FPS, there is a special place in hell for you and I'll meet you...

HOLY SHIT GUYS MY 2 YEAR OLD BROTHER FOUND THIS SOMEWHERE I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I HAD THIS OMG

Special algorithm 😂

Not only the manager/developer ratio is insane, but they are complaining about their top dev is getting an extra special status .. I just wish he sees this and quit immediately.

!rant

My ISP just sent me an email:
I have double the bandwidth for the next 6 month while still paying the same as before. No fishy things, no special conditions...

What a time to be alive.

Who needs expensive macbook decals when you've got special devrant frowning stickers

Yeah ofcourse, Gotta be today's special 😂😂😅

SPECIAL OFFER! LEARN EVERYTHING YOU'LL EVER NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PROGRAMMING IN TWO HOURS! ONLY $99.99! BUY NOW!

I'll buy an oar.

Not a boat with two of them, just an oar.

And slap every idiot who comes near to me again trying to convince me how Apple products are innovative. Every feature mentioned I had on my phone at least for 5years. And if not on my phone, Nexus or another Samsung had it already for a long time. Hell, Samsungs even started exploding sooner!

What is it with those Apple snowflakes trying to be something special? Yes you are special! You piss me of in a matter of nanoseconds.

Sprint, I think YOU are a "special character"

Everytime I see the tag 'geek' on here I die a bit inside. We're all geeks, you ain't special boy!

"Your password must be between 8-20 characters and contain an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number, a special character and a haiku about your childhood pet."

Today's work activities:

Playing football with a gymnastic ball (those big ass things you can sit on) with a colleague at the office and playing mobile games 😊

Oh yeah, also had a special beer!

Am I the only one who sees a post that begins with "Am I the only one..." and automatically downvotes?

You are not a special snowflake, there are millions just like you, live with it.

Developers who use JavaScript "eval(...)" deserve a normal place in hell.
Developers who use JavaScript eval() within eval() deserve the most special place in hell. 🔥

My last special snowflakes teacher story. This happend last Friday.

Background: we had to do a "little" project in less than 2 weeks (i ranted about that) and got our degree on Friday. I did a perfectly fine meal suggester, with in my opinion one of the best codes i've ever written.

After getting my degree (which is totally fine and qualifies me as IT technician/ "staatlich geprüfte Informationstechnische Assistentin") i asked him what my grade for the project was.
Me: what was my grade for the project again?
Him: i left it at 90%
Me: why exactly? You seemed to be really excited and liked it obviously. And there was no critique from you after my presentation.
Him: yadda yadda. I can't give you more. Yadda yadda be happy i didn't lower your grade.
Me: why would you lower my grade? This doesn't make sense at all. I matched all your criteria. You wanted a program everyone loved, everyone wanted to buy. There you go. I made exactly that.
Him: i can't give you a 1 (equals an A)
Me: why not?
Him: you wrote to much. I didn't want so much (he never specified a maximum). And you used to advanced code. And there were so many lists and ref - methods. The class couldn't benefit from it.
Me: Excuse me!? The only "advanced code" i used was a sqlite library. And i explained what i did with that. What do you mean by "so many lists" and ref-menthodes. In which methodes am i using ref?
Him: I don't know, i just skimmed through the code.
Me, internal: WHAT THE FUCKING HELL!?
Me: so you are telling me, you didn't even read my code fully and think it is too advanced for the class? And because of that you give a 2 (equals a B)?
Him: yes
I just gave him a deathstare and left after that. What the hell. Yes, i used encapsulation - which is something we hadn't done much in class. But the code is still not more advanced because i use more files -.-

Had a "Fatal error stack overflow"

All google searches lead to irrelevant links in stackoverflow.com

Now I can add this error to my "special errors I had" list. #onceinalifetime

Registered for a job application website and on profile page I see my password in clear type! ...

Time to change password to an easy one and remove profile as fast as possible...

Story goes on: changed password which included a special char successfully.
Tried to remove the account but was told password has invalid chars.

Logged off to see if the password still works. Can't login anymore...

Instant rant mail to admit.

My special talent in life is fucking up a tutorial that I follow step by step.

I'm sorry but I have a special hate in my heart for recruiters.

I am so fucking sick of getting asked to implement special cases / features for 1 fucking customer just because the customer wants to do something differently (read fucking stupidly).

This piece of shit codebase already has easy on 500 special cases that were put in place to please some asshole who does'nt even use the feature he demanded once he realised what a wanker he was being.

Now I have to put in yet another bunch of conditional statements all over the place to pad another fucking douche bags ego.

For fuck sake can they not just use the software as it is. If some dick really wants shit his special glorious way can we not just fork the codebase give him his shit and he can stay on the same special fucking version forever without future updates because the other 99% of user aren't retarded.

Password max length: 12 characters
Additional requirements: exactly 1 special character and exactly 2 numbers.

I got really pissed off with this company. Why you ask? Well, first off they send me an email for applying with them for a job. Ok, harmless. I wait a couple of weeks and they send me another email. I'm excited, perhaps I got the job! NOPE it's the fucking same email for the fucking same job. I half assed their application the second go around because I was pissed off with them. In their section about uniqueness I essentially gave them the finger.

There will be a special place in hell for those who will use Internet Explorer from year 2017.

I always wanted to have comments in JSON files, but I just discovered a really good alternative:
{
"//": "This is a comment",
"somekey": "somevalue"
}

Looks kinda ugly but it works! No need for special unconventional parsers and shit.

Developing a Haskell project, indenting everything with 3 spaces. Develop to over a million lines of code. Use Darcs as a repository. Run the code on AIX powerpc architecture. Suffering from special snowflake syndrome.

This will always hold a special place in my heart.. Makes me so nostalgic every time. It's what got me into computers

That's why Amazon is special. Look at the what's new section for the app update.

A special thanks to @dfox for the awesome swag that showed up today.

My daughter claimed the stress bar for her own.

"at least 1 special character except < ' ; / - [ % _"
Also known as "Hey, look at me, I'm vulnerable to SQL injection and a lot of other fun stuff!"

Developers who writes something similar

if (count >= 0) { return true; }

else { return false; }

deserves a special room in hell.

Early in my database developer career, I started a new job at a mortgage company. I was poking around the code, just getting familiar with things.

One script identified properties in certain states/territories for special handling:

AND STATECD IN (‘PR’, ‘HI’, ‘AL’)

I thought “Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and ALABAMA?? One of these things is not like the other…”

Yeah, that was supposed to be Alaska (AK)… But they’ve been special-handling properties in Alabama for years.

Oh for Fuck's sake buddy. What makes you think you are special?

Just received a mail from my college that my college's student account password does not contain any special characters and I should change it immediately. Wtf? How did they know that?

Guys i got 1000++!!!

It's not that i'm special now.

Just more special than others.

Oh I remember the old times when devRant veterans like @linuxxx or @Alice posted their first rants and I welcomed them!

I even remember that night I gave @dfox the idea of creating this app! "That's stupid.", he said. "If this app should be succesful I owe you some special kind of duck we will produce for some reasons I don't know yet!", he said.

But for real now: Thanks everybody for being a part of this and for bringing me so much joy!

Websites that send a mail to confirm me unsubscribing from their mails need a special place in hell.

There is a special place in hell for people that do custom smooth scrolling on their websites.

There's a special place in hell for those who don't provide keyboard shortcuts for commonly used commands.

It's shared with those who don't display the shortcut keys in the menus, so you can learn them.

if (MONTH === 1 & DAY === 18) {
alert("Bro, it's your birthday");
} else {
alert("Bro, just go away, you're nothing special 😅);
}

Special 2022 greetings to the last of us who still run truly static websites: update your footer template, recompile, upload.

For all the special snowflakes who understand code and are treated like shit:
Cheer up!

My special edition $130 mouse finally arrived. It takes it's place as the most pretencious thing I own

Tomorrow is my 19th birthday and I'm very excited about it. 😀🎂
Wanted to do something special as a computer geek but wasn't sure.
Hope you can help me !

Thanks 👍

Well, sh*t.

There is special hell for people using GOTO in C and even more special hell for people using it in *this* context.

remember, to them, we're just cogs

easily replacable machine parts

meanwhile they're "extremely special" because they've thought of the next 10 iterations of microsoft fucking excel

"HR tech startup" give me a fucking break dude

"Set your new password.
Please don't use special characters or symbols"
😳

My workstation; My main development PC sports an i7-4790, GTX 970, a 128 GB SSD, and two 1TB HDD's. I run Windows 10 and I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Other than that nothing special!

Was my prev dev fucking high or what?
Who names an UPDATE Query as delete.
That shitfuck deserves a special place in hell.

There is a special place in hell for people who commits trailing whitespace.

Thanks everyone for giving me enough ++ to get my very own stress ball, also a special thanks zuckABird. If it wasn't for your data collecting madness i would of missed out. Ha

there should be a special place in hell for people who use inline css style.

Yesterday, a very good friend of mine who is a philosopher has given me a present: the book "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin.

This summer is going to be very good. I'm very greatful.

Why the fuck would you allow special characters in your passwords, when some of them are considered "potentially dangerous!" can't even login ffs!

What's so special about Arch Linux?

No matter what JS framework/library holds the #1 spot at any given time, jQuery will always have a special place in my heart.

Question in my mind since I woke up.. What's so special about React. :/

There’s a special place in hell for fuckwits who create tickets and don’t include the fucking error message.

It was my first time "cooking" wok with special wok oil and sweet soja sauce.
(You do not cook wok)

I know i know, its an old story.

but.

FUCK YOU AND YOUR STUPID PASSWORD REQUIREMENTS

NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS WONT MAKE IT SAFER

FFS. JUST SAY IT HAS TO BE 20 CHARACTERS AND BE DONE WITH IT

Not really rubber, but he's my duck.
He's literally one year younger than me so it makes it quite special.
I really like him 😄

When you're signing up for an account on a government site not to be named in this rant and they limit your password to 6 alphanumeric characters and no special characters... Smh

First commission done! Tofu 60%, Krytox 205g0 lubed creams, SA keycaps, and a special surprise foam dampening plate for extra thocc on that Brass plate.

<<< prank victim today.

Swapped font so it would not display special characters and changed characters in my unit tests here and there...

Took me 40mins with headphones on, before the thought that I'm not at fault occurred...

Once you forget to lock your machine when going lunch..

@dfox feature idea: code formatting. Either indentation or special characters to demarcate code

Nothing special, just following the trend 😋

Special character missing .. or is it ?😂😂

How many "normal" people (we as programmers are special) languages do you speak/understand?

I know English, Italian, some French & Spanish and some Slavic language like Macedonia, Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian. What about you?

So, during my Java lessons we had a teacher who had a very special relationship with the language.
During the introduction he used to tell us that interfaces in Java are really poorly designed and that they would not reflect how an interface normally should be implemented. The possibility for a developer to add default methods to an interface or that a class could inherit from multiple interfaces was unacceptable to him.

Due to those reasons, he would hate on Java 8 and tell us to not use it and instead stay with Java 7 - dafuq!

Nothing special

Security Horror Story:

A password authenticator which is case-insensitive and all special characters are treated as the same value. As a bonus, all passwords are truncated to 4 characters.

Recruiter called me yesterday about applying for job that I already applied for through her. I don't feel special.

I saw a SO question where the dev commented on his own question "I might have an idea, don't answer me" and never posted anything else. This dumbass deserves a special place in hell

I think @dfox +1's every rant to make us feel special.

There is a special corner in heaven for such devs

The postcard I got from dev to back from when I was a part of it.

Let’s make sure 2020 is special indeed. Aged like milk.

Today, this made me think: My bank limits the password I can choose to 16 chars, and only letters and numbers are allowed, no special chars. Meanwhile on Typeracer.com I was able to use 60 character password, including numbers, letters and special chars.

*Sorry, the password must have only 8 characters and must include a letter, number and a special character*

Fuck you!

People who claim macos don't hang are liars. They deserve a special place in hell.

Came home, opened Instagram and I feel this urge to make a rant about these fcking instagram thots that "code".

I'm not against women that code or anything (in fact, if they got the skill, then I think that is awesome), but I am against those special fcking snowflakes that try to get special attention just because they are a female person that is writing HTML and CSS >.>

Working on my PiStation😁

It's basically a Raspberry Pi 4 in a PS2 housing. Nothing special😅

Called someone special...
She didnt pick up...
Then was no "CALLBACKS" for 2 days...
Which made me break my "PROMISE"...

(JS and NodeJS DEVS will understand)

Special thanks to "-red" for making up for all the ++ I lost yesterday.

Who deleted their account, btw?

does anyone else's boss get pissed off when you can't fix printers/ internet/phone issues? somehow being a Web developer makes you have a special connection with technology apparently

Little anecdote from my in-house it:

"Our passwords are safe because we change them every 3 months and they have to contain uppercases, lowercases, numbers and special characters. 6 digit length is enough and can't be hacked."

OS as weeddealers:
Windows has standard weed. Nothing special, but reliable.
Linux got a great selection, but you always gotta haggle with him for hours until something works out.
Mac sells oregano.

Please use normalization. Don't store more than is intended in one field and use special characters to separate things. It would make future developers job easy.

Work setup, nothing too special

There is special place in hell for those people who don't comment their shit code.

There are people who quit coding cause of errors and stuck ups. But there are these special others, who work on Saturday, smash their keyboards on the desk and say FUCK IT.

Just reached my 512th ++.
Thank you everyone who did it, and special thanks and congratz to @devTea for being the 512th.

🏳️‍🌈❤️

Windows stole Arch's special feature: "Breaks on every update"

Being lazy is ok.
But I believe there certainly is a special place in hell for people that use "transition: all" in CSS.

Normal Compilers : i guess you missed a semicolon in line 63

Special Compilers : You wrote wrong code, useless fella, I'm not your servant to tell you all the errors. Your mere existence is unnecessary and useless

I swear to God there is a special place in hell for people that ask for updates on shit when they are not even paying.

Today I learned that there are 26.9 million software developers in the world as of 2020.

That's only 0.35% of the World Population. We're special guys!

That special Moment between finding the bug and becoming sheepherder.

Insanity is not a special state of mind. It's the inability to change that state.

If your site only supports alpha numeric characters in my password. You should tell me that when I reset my password rather than just killing the special characters out of the string and submitting my password like that. I spent 15 minutes trying to log in before I gave up and reset it to something simple.

Also, you should let me use special characters in my password, it's 2017.

Junior devs who are unable to use Google and don't respect your headphones, brutally pulling you out of the zone. There's a special place in hell for these guys.

Today I decided that from now on for all strings that need to be initialized and don't need a special value, I will assign a TIE-fighter "|-o-|".
That will be my legacy.

Fuck vue, react AND angular... this will always have a special place in my heart

Reading about Lua, see this:

"Lua arrays are 1-based: the first index is 1 rather than 0 as it is for many other programming languages (though an explicit index of 0 is allowed)."

*close tab*

Weirdest morning in a while:
- good morning!

_ good morning

* walk over to colleagues desk to see what he’s working on pure out of interest*

_what do you want?

-nothing just curious

_do you want to fight?

-wtf?

The more i work with fellow developers the more i realize the special kind of people we actually are.

Came across a special variable name ::. dicParser

People doing javascript without semicolons should die !!!! Just kill you!!!!

And if you use less than 3 letters for naming, there is a special hell that awaits you, when we murder you after a lot of suffering!!!!

No fuck you you are not going to post your shitty generic products with 20mb photos that we host! Fuck off. No it's not "blurry" you fuck wit it's a normal picture in this industry .

When you know the day will be great if there is two sticker batches sitting in your maibox.

Special thanks to Atlassian Statuspage and whatismybrowser.com for sending these awesome looking stickers!

Developers trying to be quirky during a keynote speech is a special type of cringe.

My simple office setup, nothing special but it gets the job done.

My special usb from my uncle 🚗

there's a special place for people who write empty catch blocks INTENTIONALLY ..

try{

... do something that may produce NPE;

} catch {Exception fuckYou){

// go die in a fire

}

If you're on a mobile development team, you are treated special when you're the iOS guy. Nobody here damn cares about Android.

Burn I hell whoever designed this font.
I just spend 20 minutes trying to figure out what special thing this for-loop does if it's just from 0 - 1

When I drove up the parking lot, I had a feeling that this was a special day. Not "good" special, but "BAD" special.
I parked my car, went out, double checked to I got my headphones with me and walked in.
People where not at the places, they where talking to each other. Not talking but everyone where at some different place.
I have seen this before, when people is not working at they desk - that means that something is not working as it should and they are not telling.
I went directly to the serverroom, and directly noticed that one rack was completly black. No power. And the monitor server was one of the victims - FUCK.

Why are the MOST important passwords in my life (banks, financial, insurance) the LEAST secure (i.e. Max length 12, no special chars)

There's something special about teaching DHCP to your barber...

did not expect the stickers would actually arrive! you sent it all the way half of the earth. the stickers earn a deservedly special space on my laptop and phone. Kudos to you devRant!

Buying a new USB from Tesco
So their password reqs are:
8-15 chars
1 lowercase
1 uppercase
1 number or special char

Anyone else think that's ridiculous? There really can't be very many possibilities there

There is a special place in hell for all PMs

You can't entice me with your #devRant ducks!
I already have a very special one. I named her Elizabeth...

Password guidelines...

Just got an online account for an insurance:
Allowed characters for password are a-z, A-Z, 0-9.
Really?
I tried special characters, maybe they just forgot to mention them. Doesn't work, "Password not valid".

There is a special place in hell for people who drink the last of the coffee and don't make a new pot!

On this special holiday, #DevStory# wishes you all:

MERRY CHRISTMAS

:)

Don't judge me, but i don't have any special cup for coffee

There might be a special place in hell for the creator of JavaScript. He hacked something in a couple weeks and this monstrosity has been causing hell for devs since the 90s.

Developers who don’t use silent switches on their installers have a special place in Hell reserved for them!

I'm fed up with this shit. Tomorrow I'm going to work in my "special suit".

People that upgrade to Windows 10 FREE by going to the... "special needs category"(people with special needs that could use the new things that Windows 10 has... like Cortana), but are perfectly normal... don't be ashamed of that... you were retarded enough to upgrade to Windows 10, so it's justified...

There's something special about writing your first "Hello world!" in a new language, no matter how long you've been programming :)

So hello rust, let's see what the fuzz is all about...

o and btw, yesterday was my birthday lol.

realtalk: if you want me to feel special, dont fucking force me to be more social than on all the other days together, or i will rewrite the year without eightteenth february.

you fucking corksuckers, i dont want to go to that place my grandma (same bd as i) goes to to celebrate. fucking mediocre pizzaria isnt fucking worth it, so atleast give me a choose.
and on the very Least, could you please quiet up? its not by telling me ten times per hour to be more proactive at school that you will help me like school.

o and also FFS WHEN IM FUCKING SICK AND EVEN OFFERING TO GO TO THE DOC TO SEE, FUCKING DONH SEND ME TO SCHOOL ANYWAY, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS JUST BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY

(you just got an insight into my life. wanna see more? i dont think so)

So I made this drawing tool thing in QB64...

Same as the year before.
Trying hard to achieve good grades in school. Nothing special. The usual shit, as you can see...
Thanks for taking your time and read my unnecessary post anyways ;)

Why do people design web apis where the way you submit your authorization is via a custom header?

Especially when the authorization is literally a token?

Am I ingesting something special?

The man who invented the keyboard with unaligned Enter, Right Shift and Right Ctrl deserves a special place in hell

Non-coding Project Managers who take on projects without consulting their developers on the possibility/ impossibility of a project have a special place in hell.

I was almost through with a mission on Modern Warfare 3 special ops after being killed a million times but then windows update couldn't fucking wait! Seriously wtf???!

I hate applying for a job online. For some reason it just doesn't work out for me. I have a lot of humor but today my interviewer asked me if i was insecure doing that. I'm like "No, my whole family is like this".

But that's beside the point. Every company thinks they're so special. Well, some do have special benefits. But after a few times turned down my ego starts to break.

I'm so done with this new type of interviewing

People who use special characters in filenames, or characters that don't match /[a-zA-Z0-9]-_./ Should by law be executed by hanging and public humiliation.

Devs who log exception messages without trace deserve a special place in hell

!rant

As most of us are aware, developers often struggle to find romantic partners, often due to introversion or working unsociable hours. So, devs who HAVE found that special someone, how did you meet them?

The way my junior sister writes, I need a special dictionary to understand her. Wtf!

Hey guys.
So, I have a new printer for parts.
Question, what type of glass does scanner uses? Does it have some special treatment or is it normal glass? Thanks

And on today's episode of ADHD, Depression, Or Corporate Jadedness? Our special guest star is start paralysis!

Access is just the most bull**** thing on earth. I spent 3 hours trying to find the mistake in my sql. FYI this sucker uses some special syntax for multiple joins -_-

COMMENTS BE LIKE...

Physics exam. Seems I was the special guy who did the task in a different (and almost correct way), so my teacher had to share some golden thoughts with me.

Passed anyway xD

How many of you can tell a rant was written by sukmikehok just by reading the first two three lines before opening the rant and finding out who actually wrote it?

Happy!
Being an Android Dev myself, I bought my first app in Play Store!
Nova Launcher Prime was offered @ ₹10 (~0.15$). No matter how small the contribution is, it's quite a special joy to support another dev!

Happy Friday everyone!

My workplace provides breakfast rolls, fruit, yogurts and other breakfasty stuff as well as free beers at 4pm.

How does your workplace finish the week?

bug comment in the tracker, from the new junior dev, during her first week:
"probably fixed by [other dev]".
Among the unhelpful comments, this was a special gem. really special. a What the Fuck did you mean by that special. Was it fixed or not? who fixed it? [other dev]? someone else?
it was better not to have any comment at all.
later that junior became a really good dev...

I heard MS doesn't provide employees with a developer special image, meaning once you get / format a pc, you've to install every damn piece of sw from VS to SQL to node... on your own.

Why ??????????????

"I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain." - Anne Lamott

I'm having some problems with an assignment for university, the special forces are trying to help me

I've just seen this issue on Github. What's so special would you ask? I've developed Aria2App, I'm feeling so nice.

When moment when you hopelessly keep reading each line, in hope that you will find that special line that is causing the bug, for almost 4 days...

and you finally find it 😆

Quite sure, that there's a special place in hell waiting for the guy, who made the cmd+Q comb so close to the alt+Q (@) on the mac layout.

When people use so many special characters to decorate their comments that their code looks like Brainfuck code :|

@localhost My Homeoffice. Nothing really special going on here but I like it simple. :)

Does anyone know if anything special is required to vertically center a div in Firefox?
It works perfectly fine in chrome and IE and Edge and freaking everything else!!

Not commenting my code just to return 2 weeks later to wonder what kind of special asshole wrote the code. And what the heck it does.

My team's special jutsu:

Infinite Idiocy

Good thing it's not "special snowflake edition"

What is special in the domain with .onion?

WHY THE FUCK IS THE UPGRADE UNZIP DIR HARDCODED IN WORDPRESS TO A LOCATION IN THE WEBROOT????????? It should be /tmp.... I always knew wordpress devs were... special...

I have a rant. A genuine rant, not a funny story, etc.

I want a keyboard. I need one. It can cost €500, as long as it won't break in a year and fulfils all my needs. Make it a €1000, I don't care. What are my needs then? Well...

It has to be a split keyboard - two halves. But wireless in every aspect, ergonomic, with multimedia keys on its outer edges (preferably pointing outwards, not up) and a heavy metal trackball on the right outer edge (preferably upper right corner). That's a bare minimum.

On top of that it probably some magnetic scrolls for things like navigating pages, changing volume and fidgeting in general wouldn't hurt. Also I'd prefer it to snap back into a one-piece whenever I need it to lie on my knees, e.g. when I type while sitting on a coach (I have a coach PC setup, no desk, and there's a reason). Why do I need it to split then...?

I had an accident. Kind of broke my back when I was 11. It's mostly okay now after couple years of rehabilitation and many more years of careful living. Luckily the only two wheels I ride on are powered by a 105.97 hp @ 9,970 rpm engine. Still, I try to be careful so I tried tons of work hygiene techniques over the years and I found out anything over 2 hours is best done while lying flat.

Coding while lying flat has its challenges, mostly focused around screen and input. Ever since I got a VR headset half of them got solved but the other half - acquiring a suitable keyboard - it's very hard to satisfy. I tried that with a one-piece keyboard lying on my stomach. Turns out actively bending elbows quickly wears them out (hello tennis players). So a split keyboard it has to be. So far I tried 4 different ones and I had to modify the cable connecting both halves in each and every one of them so that it'd be long enough to go behind my back. The main cable itself I only had to modify once because usually there're extensions available.

Apart from cables, all of those keyboards had issues. Starting from some kind of de-syncing when keys from both halves would randomly register in a wrong order - I didn't know it's possible with a cable connected halves... I did try two generic WiFi keyboards (using one for each hand) and they unfortunately suffered from that very same issue but I was sure it wouldn't happen if the device was designed to be a one unit from the very beginning, right? And yet it in 2 of the tested devices.

Other than that, plugs disconnecting on their own forcing me to take off the headset and fiddle around, too high key travel that'd strain the wrists after a few hours, even the noise that would wake up my girlfriend sleeping in a separate room were all a common issue (I briefly had an almost completely silent WiFi mechanical keyboard from Logitech we both really liked, but it was a one-piece). Once I got a split keyboard that was "natively" WiFi but not only the two halves were still connected with a cable that turned out to be way too short for my needs, it also had a very noticeable lag despite the high price - a lag way higher than any of the cheap WiFi keyboards I owned in the past. So I sent it back. Now IDK what to do because AFAICT there are no more models available, at least where I live.

So yeah, I need a keyboard and I'll probably have to make one myself. Sorry, just had to vent.

Every week since I started the company:

Boss "We need a special feed of resources for this customer."
We say "Great let's build support for custom feeds."
Boss says "Could we just hard code that resource in really quickly?"

This week:
Boss says "Could you make a system that dynamically let's me know what resources has been hard-coded in all special feeds, and that alerts me when a resource goes offline".

Now what should we respond?
Help us out! Best suggestion might turn in to an email to boss..

Why there isn't a special key on the keyboard which includes "; + enter"?
Or in general a keyboard with special keys for developers? 🤔

e.g. open/close brackets with one key, or "/>" as one single key., or ") + {"

Not really a developer thing but...
I was bored so I took apart a 360 hard drive to prove to a friend it's not much different from a computer one

Just special adapter and formatting

Project Manager is a person who thinks that one woman can deliver 10 babies in 9 months.

There's a special place for this kind of people in hell for ya.

Is there a good technical reason to not allow passwords to contain special characters? My isp does this and I need to know why.

A google engineer just requested to connect with me on LinkedIn.

Not going lie it made me feel special.

I know that it isn't anything special, but it feels like home.

It's exactly not an idea but it pisses me off when people say we're Uber for xyz or were Amazon of xyz. Just finding special use cases of other startups.