That moment when you finally solve your problem and you can close your browser with 20+ tabs of searches for your error message. Feels damn good.

TMW you're asked to arrive one hour earlier at the office, so it can look "busy and innovative" to investors.

Some of us are just the toys very rich people play with.

I don't really drink alcohol, but every time I look at my (old) code, it looks like I was drunk when writing it.

TMW Maven suddenly aborts building when it's about to build the last module in your Java project

This scares me every time.

The stickers finally arrived. 😃 Thanks @dfox and @trogus for making devRant awesome!

TMW the code is so complex that even the debugger can't help make it understandable

TMW you're 25 ++'s away from a stress ball

Tmw the setup CD for your new network switch only works on Windows XP...

Tmw your side project makes it to the front page of HackerNews and then to the top 😃

This is really nice positive reinforcement 😅

That feeling when you realize what's causing that one stubborn error.

So I'm making an app with a classmate at school, but there's one huge problem. All the PC's and laptops at school are shit. The ICT departement at my school blocks almost everything on them. I can't install any program, open any file and I can't even open the command prompt! So I can't install Visual studio or any other IDE and basically can't do anything besides browse websites that aren't blocked. And they expect me and my classmate to make an app. Fortunately, my classmate has a spare laptop we can use, but it's really difficult for two guys to code on just one laptop. I asked my school if they could buy new laptops or if they could remove they restrictions on two laptops, but they don't want to do any of those things and now we're stuck with just one laptop. I don't know what to do. I fucking hate this!

(This doesn't have anything to do with the topic of the rant, but I just want to complain.)
There are a couple more things I hate about my school. At my school, everyone is forced to use iPads. I don't know why they don't just give us laptops instead of iPads (maybe just because there lazy). So my iPad's headphonejack and homebutton where broken for no reason and I had to get it repaired. But instead of going to an apple store or a repair shop, you need to go to the school's ICT department and get it fixed there. If you don't do that and go to a apple store or something, they will take your iPad and keep it forever! Even though you pay €200 for it every year! Also, the ICT department at my school is lazy as hell! You expect them to repair the iPad themselves, but they just send it to a repair shop. So it wouldn't even matter if I would go to the store myself! 😠 And they even do a really bad job at checking if the device even works after the repair, because I needed to get it repaired three times in a row! And don't even get me started on the bad WiFi connection.

I hate it when people quit in the middle of a project. I was building an app with a guy and he recently said: "I don't really feel like I want to make this app anymore". This is so annoying! He was the second person to quit. There was another girl who quit just a couple hours before we were supposed to do a pitch. Luckily I found someone else to make the app with and he's pretty excited. I hope he will stay. Anyway, has this ever happened to you? I would love to know.

idk why, but why focus so much on internal stuff that never will be public...this is also my favorite quote

TMW your showing your boss your code and the output, then asks if you can do something else with it. Knowing that it's implemented you try it. Massive amounts of bugs. You think it's a simple fix and make it worse by quickly trying to fix it. Then he leaves. You undo a few changes mess around with the code for a minute and then everything works fine again.

TLDR: Bugs show up when your boss is in the same room as you. Disappear when he's not.

TMW you want to introduce a big feature that will require you to refactor the existing code, but you don't have to worry about breaking the latter since you have tons of unit tests backing you up.

At my school we use iPads (I don't know why) and the teachers can see what's on your screen, lock you inside an app, block apps/basically everything, lock/shut down your iPad, uninstall apps and they can even see what's your location. It sucks ass, but with my "professional" hacking skills I figured out a way to hack the system. If I use a VPN, for some reason they can't do anything to my iPad. I'm still waiting for the day my school is going to ditch iPad's an buy us laptops, but at least I can sleep good at night without having my teacher doing stuff to my iPad.

(I have a ton of other things I don't like about my school, and would love to rant about, but I don't want this rant to be 5000 pages long)

I don't talk about Dev stuff with my friends/family. I try keep keep it to myself. They either get really angry, confused or they try to talk about things they know nothing about.

At the end of my shift I updated my work linux with corporate update, shutdown and go home. Next day I come to work, try to boot up but ends up in kernel panic.
tfw I lost my personal scripts and projects.
tmw when whole department has bricked computers.

Dear Atom,

I'm sorry, but it's time. I know that we had many great times together, but I will be switching to Visual Studio soon. It's not your fault, you can blame Microsoft if you want. It's just that Visual Studio will have better git integration. And the fact that you will probably be cancelled. I hope you the best. Make the best out of the little time you still have.

Sincerely,
TomW

I've tampered JavaScript for about 2 months now and I like it. But I see that there's a lot of hate towards JavaScript on devRant (and other websites). Why do people hate/dislike JavaScript so much? Or is it just a personal preference?

TMW you realise the only projects that got me somewhere were my side ones. Everything else I've built for other people is either defunct or never came to life in the first place.

Tmw your angular app just stops working because of a mandatory circular dependency you simply cannot get around.
yay!

Tmw you realize your new shiny laptop has issues with linux.

Gonna have to do some grub stuff, the shipped kernel doesn't support my skylake gfx :/

TMW you make something good with much efforts and dedication, and then the API gets deprecated with breaking changes.

tmw you need to find a bug in a function that is over 200 lines without any real documentation to speak off...

TMW your teacher requires you to hand in an image in a word document....

Tmw your carefully crafted plan of some feature you thought would be a particually bit of tricky code turns, through a bit of stumbling and trial and error, into something even better than your well calculated plans -- however clever you thought you were -- you have to admit that the result exceeded your expectations and intelligence. Especially when it works!

TMW you go to a meeting to be presented to an idea you gave two meetings ago.

Them: what do you think, guys? We all onboard?

TMW CURL doesn't want to download website content (yes, headers are set and correct), but the provided URL works in your browser.

TMW someone from mid level management hits reply-all to a company wide email.

TMW your Agile Coach has more Github activity than you do.

TMW you realise you're working for Oroboro, the mythical snake that eats its own tail.

A product manager and a designer arrive at the project, spend a month doing lots of research, tell the devs that what they've built "isn't suitable for users" and come up with solution that has the exact same features that were implemented before.

tmw you reach page 20 on Google just to find out how to make a fucking tar without this stupid "./" appended to the front of every file (and without that retarded empty dir that's literally just called ".")

TMW you're dating a nurse and between her criticism of medical procedure and your own criticism of the portrayal of technology and "hacking" you can't sit through any movie without finding it flawed.

Tmw you look at something and instantly get a new project idea.

This is why I have so many unfinished projects.

TMW you have to practically rewrite your extension 'cause the vendor deprecated and replaced the entire SDK