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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I present you the API I'm working with...
That's a pretty fucking useful error description right there.21 -
HR - There is a 2 years gap on your CV!
Candidate - I was in jail.
HR - Why?
Candidate:- I killed the guy who told me : "We'll call you back".
HR :- Welcome on board, You have the Job.7 -
Gitkraken because it makes working with branches, submodules, merging, amending, rebasing, squashing, stashing etc. super easy and visual. Especially useful in huge projects.22
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Just realized I'm using an almost decade old Acer aspire laptop for programming. And its still useful because Linux.19
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I now understand the double tap feature. It's really useful when your reading devRant while eating.6
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"Make the feature more useful."
Please write a user story. It's hard to determine what you want.
"As Sales Agent I would like the <feature> to be extended so it's more useful to me."
(ノಥ,_」ಥ)ノ彡┻━┻3 -
"I will create a very useful library and won't document it" - said every developer ever.
This fucking snapcraft is making me lose my goddamn mind.3 -
How do you salvage a really hard question on a whiteboard interview?
Ans: "I'm sorry, I don't code on light theme"!
Via reddit user csquestions55832921 -
Print 'Hello World' in ReactJS.
# Time - dies
# Memory - cries in silence
# C - gives an evil laugh7 -
I download a lot of different stuff all the time. Often times I don't actually get around to cleaning it up. Thus, I decided I needed to build a script to further encourage my bad habits.
Here I've built a script for both Windows and Linux. It's designed to take all the files in the current directory and move them into their own folders based on their extensions. Why is this useful?
It's fucking useful when you're not having to swim through fucking mountains of content.
Anyways without any further ado here are the scripts.
Linux
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.*; do
filename=$(basename -- "$i")
extension="${filename##*.}"
extension="$extension"files
mkdir "$extension"
mv "$i" "$extension"
done
Windows
@echo off
for %%i in (*.*) do (
if not exist %%~xifile md %%~xifile
)
for %%i in (*.*) do (
if "%%i" NEQ "movingFiles.bat" move "%%i" "%%~xifile"
)15 -
Fuck yes for data hoarding! Wanted to start on a project again but thought I lost everything.
Code is sill in git, (took me a while to find but whatever) database is still on my own laptop (due to ex/importing my entire local host as for databases every time I do a new installation).
Let’s get this fucker going again 😎4 -
1. Socializing with lots of people is tiring (if it’s a few then it’s okay)
2. I want to build something useful around me
3. It looks cool3 -
"Nothing good will ever come of this computer thing of yours. Stop wasting time and learn something useful."
. . .
My Mom was telling me this for years.4 -
Oh, that feeling when you learn the entry level dev, with no useful knowledge, gets paid more than you...
Priceless...4 -
Wk103 got to be the best weekly rant, it’s like everybody sharing a good quote about programming, and it’s useful
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My first PR approved for open source community. WOW !!!
It's felt like heaven. I'm done something useful 😍4 -
[Him]: Hey can I ask a quick question
[Me. ]: Of course!
[Him]: Why do you multiply the amount of timer ticks with 31000 to get the amount of nanoseconds here ?4 -
Totally useful!
Master CS Degree.
More knowledge then most coders.
More knowledge on what’s going to come.
No ragrets 🤷♂️7 -
So I've been playing some DnD with friends.
And we've been working with some lego characters, whiteboard markers and plastic sheets to draw on.
But that's always a mess:
The ink was old and did not come off again for the most part
The sides of the map curled up and and made the lego character fall over
The lego characters were too big
And more...
So I thought, why not make it digital?
And so I did.
I used UWP to make a master and a client, both using the Windows Ink api to be able to draw.
Some circles with an initial served as characters, and everything was synchronized using a TCP library I wrote half a year ago.
Yesterday we tried it out.
We all (including me) were sceptical if it would work well because the 'analog' clumsy way we did it before does have a certain charm.
But at the end we were all very enthousiastic about it and we'll be using it next time too!
It's awesome to be able to create programs for your own use :D
That's why being able to program is such a great thing!
Now I need to restructure everything, make it more efficient, add a turn order display, make the map zoom- and moveable and more and more....20 -
On Windows: Use Tools and scripts to stop/uninstall/deactivate functionality so that the OS becomes useful for me.
On Debian: Use Tools and scripts to start/install/activate functionality so that the OS becomes useful for me.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤭2 -
"… try to absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is essentially your own." - Bruce Lee
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So I had test from Linux. One of the question was "What is the name of Linux creator?"
I'm sure it'll be useful af12 -
I don't want to come off as a linux-elitist but it's simply amazing how much easier my job is on linux. A good example recently was setting up some libraries for a C++ program I was writing to show to my class. Most of them were using Windows and visual studio, took about 15 minutes to download all the headers and libs, and show them how to configure a VS solution to link them. Not too big a deal but on linux, it only took about 30 seconds to pacman and gcc -l the lib. Little things like that keep me interested in linux as a dev tool.undefined plz dont hate linux no comment on mac ive never worked on one windows is kind of ok too tags are useful tags14
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Best way to handle any exception...
try{
something
} catch(e) {
window.location.href =
"http://stackoverflow.com/search/...]+"
+ e.message;
}joke/meme coding c++ tip of the day tricks stack overflow random rant try catch joke but will be useful 😂😂😂 programmer hacks9 -
Pro tip to scrum masters: bringing a scrum suitcase to your sprint meetings is more useful than bringing scrumbags.1
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There are milions of programmers on the world why they didnt make IDE what have button "Fix every bug and error" ?3
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//Proof that C++ is godly !
auto water = new Water();
auto wine = reinterpret_cast<Wine>(water);
//Ha ha6 -
my 8 month old on her stroller at the grocery:
*cries in screaming*
*is scared of unrecognized faces*
every single old person we pass by:
let's grinstare this thing right on its fucking face.
baby: *cries harder*
old fuck: uh oh, time to go4 -
Anyone starting with java may find this useful.
https://humblebundle.com/books/...
skrew it, i may buy it myself!!!6 -
Computer science doesn't just mean teach me how to use Microsoft office over and over... MS Access is not useful!!!5
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I never have anything useful to say in standups because all my stuff works. which can make it seem like i'm not working on anything.4
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I hate when a software update changelog looks like this:
The latest update is now available, update your software to get the most out of it.
I want a fucking changelog before updating my things. Like: fixed a bug, new button with cool new feature. Just something. I have to know. Can't just install something blindly that could ruin my software, especially when it's not reversible..1 -
!rant
I love using DevRant and i am also a frequent visitor of sites like TechCrunch and ReCode. What other sites or apps would you recommend for devs or tech geeks??8 -
I took like 3 years to my company to get this huge-ass client to ask us to remake their website (the client is already our client for other purposes).
The old website was hosted on their local machine, behind a proxy that was there for other 30 website servers.
The old website took like 30-40 seconds to load on a browser and had a google score of 3-6/100.
We made the new website in wordpress, since it was basically a blog and managed all of the older links to redirect to the new pages so that SEO wouldn't get affected.
We then asked the previous developers to let their domain redirect to the new one (it was like example.com => ex.example.com and now it's just example.com, so we needed them to make ex.example.com redirect to example.com).
What they did was making a redirection to the 404 page of the new website, making everything go to fuck itself.
Damn this might be the first time I despise other developers, but this move was fucking awful.
I mean, I get it, we stole your big client, but it's not our fault if we made the google score go up to 90/100 in a week just by changing server and CMS.13 -
Wow @ewpratten and I just witnessed, for the first time in history, the GCC compiler being useful!6
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Best review I received for my app so far. It's a 2FA app, so basically every site where you enable 2FA tells you exactly what to do (scan the QR code)...8
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Hmmm let me think ...🤔
Is there really a need to distinguish ? Are there any useful meetings out there?🤗1 -
Just discovered that termux uses the volume down button as control... Mother fucker termux just became so much more useful!!!7
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USEFUL TIP
If you have a bad day or just want to increase you're happiness, go to this website
http://www.cat-bounce.com2 -
So, the moment I started as a BA in a health insurance company, my Quora feed gets populated with Dilbert comics, and I can finally relate to them.
Thanks Machine Learning! -
Fuck NodeJS and Python, C# and strong-typing is all I need in life. (But python is sometimes useful)10
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Learn as many languages as you can as soon as you can, they said, it's the only way to get hired! Sure... I'll get awful at a lot instead of really good at one thing and actually be useful 😐1
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When Hackathon Hackers uses "node.js" so much that I'm not sure if it's actually useful or just a joke anymore....4
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Going trough 4 years of college and getting a degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
As useful to me as Justin Bieber is useful to mankind.1 -
How to install tensorflow on windows?
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Uninstall windows
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Install ubuntu
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pip install tensorflow3 -
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Never programmed something useful because i have no ideas...
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Never used comments in my projects6 -
"Just because something looks good doesn’t mean its useful. And just because something is useful does not make it beautiful. " - Joshua Brewer4
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I want to install Linux on my computer but windows 10 updates have been going on for 25 days now. Will I ever be free?2
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A side project of mine.
Useful for offline html, CSS and Javascript prototyping.
https://github.com/Bigalan09/...
Pull requests welcome!2 -
I think a "git commit -hide" option could be useful. To hide the author of the commit when you push dirty code.2
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I would love to change the world but they won’t give me the source codejoke/meme sourcecode opensource source code open source joke but will be useful 😂😂😂 world joke truestory true story meme java6
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When the WYSIWYG editor needs to go back to school for coding.
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span>
How is that even useful!?1 -
Finally got to release v2.1 of MultiCube. Now I finally decoupled input, processing, and output :)
Next version is going to include Gamepad support as well, for better cube control. :) That version is going to come only next year though.
https://github.com/filthycoding/...5 -
There has literally only been one time I've used singly/doubly linked lists in my code. And when I did, it turned my program into a monstrosity.
10/10 would never do again!4 -
So the other day my car broke down and since the shop wanted a lot of money I asked a friend of mine who knowns his way around cars for help.
Just when we finished repairing it I was like "whenever the Zombie apocalypse starts you'll be really useful, me instead won't be since no one might need computers anymore" . His response was epic:
"Nah, you will simply build a terminator with your computer skills and it will kill all Zombies!"
Now I am actually looming forward to the Zombie apocalypse!
TL;DR: us geeks will build terminators in case of zombies!3 -
@dfox I was thinking about the high shipping cost of stress ball's to outside US,
Maybe something like the massdrop would be useful1 -
Gmail > create new rule > Subject contains "Privacy Policy" > move to [Privacy Policy BS]
Hooray! I was going fucking mental from the daily Privacy Policy e-mails. Computaas help us. -
Internet Explorer needs to just die and go to hell where it belongs. Doesn't even give me useful console errors-_-2
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Anyone else tired of the good old "Python 3.x will never be useful blahblahblah everyone uses 2.7 yadayadayada" bullshit?3
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Having developer skills comes sometimes in handy in certain situations.
In my case I visited a new website but first I had to choose their cookies.. but.. it was a list of about 150 radio buttons (150 advertisers), I shit you not.
And so I was like: "No, I refuse to click each one of them". I kept thinking.. hm.. how am I going to do a mass-toggle-off? And then it hit me: if the button "toggle all" toggles all buttons.. then that means if I invert the logic of the call, it means I will turn them all off! And it worked.. it was something like: "toggleAll(!-1)" and I did "toggleAll(0)".
That sure saved me some time! Oh yeah and there are of course other situations when you don't want to use a scraper for getting all the;. I don't know.. menu links out of a page. Console > import jQuery > select all elements with 'a' and text() on their DOM node! It can be done with native JavaScript as well document.getElementsById() but yeah, there are plenty of examples.
Hooray for being a developer!2 -
Same as last year, make something useful
Also: it's been a whole year since then? Where did the time go? -
Never understood the hate for regular expressions, it's just one more useful tool in my eyes. Anyone want to weigh in?9
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OMFG! Another git gui? Better make one more calculator for this world. At least it could become useful somehow.2
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!rant
I personally love apps like devRant, Slack, github, etc
What are some other lesser known great apps for programmers and developers?3 -
Time for a new programming language. LaTeX! It's definitely very different than what I'm used to, but very useful.13
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Thought I'd print a useful article on JS design patterns....
Looks like I'll be messing with the CSS for a while!1 -
Hello, anyone got any job search tips and tricks? Generally useful things?
Relevant: Part-time for under 18.3 -
Just saw that the University of Hawaii has a Collaborative Software Development Lab, I think that's one of the more useful things in university
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I want to read a good Software Engineering book. A modern one, which contains new agile approaches, useful diagrams, etc. Not the classical, not so useful, class diagram.
What do you recommend? I'm currently more into web and mobile apps, and I want to be able to describe my backend and frontend with useful diagrams which describe better to users and other developers my desired design. -
"If Internet explorer is brave enough to ask you to be your default browser, you're brave enough to ask that code girl out"
-Abraham Lincoln 18631 -
The ability to create something, something useful. Software is the intersection of artistry and invention. Honestly, why do anything else?
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Trying to learn <insert name of programming language>...
Can't find any useful documentation or examples.2 -
Finally an error I can understand with ease. Up until now, I’ve been getting these weird arbitrary errors that make no sense to me.
I tried to wake my MacBook and the thing hung. I have it some time, and it restarted, restored all windows, and let me know it was a “Sleep Wake Failure”.
Honestly I don’t mind getting an error occasionally. But when the error says “UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP” while I’m gaming on Windows, it annoys me.
Also having WebKit crash the webpage on me without telling me what happened also gets me mad.
TL;DR: Make understandable error messages.2 -
Im trying to land my first internship for Software Engineering anybody have some useful tips or places to look?1
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"Hey guys I need help I struggle with asynchronous stuff and I need to pass props loaded via Ajax, I can't manage to apply this solution (link to another SO question with complete and structured answer), can you guys help ?"
*30 seconds later, question is marked as duplicate, the answer has been given here (link to same question I was refering)* -
New forum post! "Here are some useful links:"
- useful link
- semi-useful link
- link to some random URL, hosting a PDF of the print view of a Wikipedia article, from 2007(???)5 -
I love the feeling you get when you absentmindedly discover a useful shortcut using your normal tools.
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I try to get into vim /neovim
Any useful vim dotfiles repos so that i dont have to configure all on my own?5 -
Thanos JS reduces the file size of your project down to 50%, by randomly deleting half of the files.3
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Being useful with what you do.
Do what you enjoy (rolling tables?).
Work somewhere, where the company cares about you. -
i am actually proud of my achievement of a scraping download-robot with decent logging, structured setup file, a small auto login to password protected areas and fancy cli options. because i am the only one on this sofa who can do this. :) this day has been kind to me.
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Question, !rant
To all my fellow Java devs, what are some things that have come out in JDK8 and JDK9 that you think are the most useful?
I know very little about the new features, but after learning about lambdas I wondered what other golden nuggets there might be. Thanks in advance!1 -
Where have you learned "the useful" programming ?
I mean, programming math challenges and this stuff is really fun and makes you think about things differently.
But it's not useful(It very much is, I just mean that the output programs aren't). Where did you learn useful programming ? Like creating GUI apps and stuff like that.3 -
!rant
Maybe a usefull function for the fellow developers here, in case you need default Avatars for your users. "UI-Avatars". Just 'discovered' this beautiful API today and it really is easy and helpful! :D It even has a PHP package if you would like to generate them yourself.. This is not an ad or anything, it's just a usefull API, like 'placehold.it' etc that could be useful for anyone out there! -
My university is offering Mobile Computing and Large Scale Data Processing as electives. Which one do you think would be more useful in the future?4
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Finance student currently doing a diploma...hoping to do I.T degree in university because felt it maybe useful in finance industry in the future.
Opinions anyone?2 -
So, Dell's XPS 13 or HP's Spectre x360 13''?
Convertibles seem cool but I'm not sure if the feature is useful...9 -
So, what are some useful / important Android and IOS apps for developers which can help them on the go?4
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Querying Active Directory limits result sets to 1000. Useful when working for an organisation with over 3000 people...
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Why is it so damn difficult to come up with good project ideas that’s actually useful for other people?4
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Y'all have your rubber duck to debug, but I have my own technic: the SO debugging.
It simply consists as asking your question as you'd normally do, but while doing so, you still think about your issue, and how people not knowing your problem but still knowing about dev would react to your question, making you asking other related question (SO's related question might also help).
IMHO, the most important part is the "related" question, that helps you to think outside the box. It makes your problematic progress a lot, and has the gift of not making you loosing any hope ; and if you ever block for good, your question will look less silly than at the beginning -
Reasons, why I started programming:
- Wanted to create own websites
- Create useful tools for private use
- STICKERZZZ -
any open source web platform, for building a crypto community
built with nodejs+react will be very useful -
can you share some interesting and useful topics for a web developer(PHP), who want to become nodejs based full stack developer?
udemy courses link will be useful.2 -
In your guys' opinion, what's the best services to run/hosting use of a Linux server? 🤔 I'm thinking of standing one up to tinker with but I want some useful functionality in mind before I pull the trigger.4
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Who's on the serverless / AWS lambda train? Can you actually do something useful and production quality yet?5
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Something truly useful, where I get to know the users or even be one of them. Something challenging but not beyond my reach.
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No real favourite method, however that being said the most useful little bugger in PHP when having to deal with badly documented libraries had to be 'get_class_methods( ___ )'
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Has anyone experiences with hardware entropy generators like OneRNG.info? Any useful usage scenarios? VeraCrypt doesn't yet seems to support it.1
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Been using this to generate quick visual site maps for estimates n’shit, just thought i’d share
https://www.gloomaps.com -
Fcuk windows with its Creators update which takes forever. Would be useful to have for each update an estimation of how long its installing will take.14
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The departure display at the train station seems to like a rant very much. It even wants to +++ it two times...
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Offtopic: What tf is this information supposed to inform me about?4 -
!rant
Finally got around to trying out zsh. Any tips and tweaks people find too useful to live without?6 -
"What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful…" - Michelle Obama
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I created a few helper functions in bash sometime ago, maybe someone might find it useful
https://github.com/zombieleet/...