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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.
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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.
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Just realized I'm using an almost decade old Acer aspire laptop for programming. And its still useful because Linux.
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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 have a lot of interesting code snippets from some kind of inhouse CRM/billing software, but for now let's look at this very useful PHP function.
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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 laugh
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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"
)
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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 -
A story before the start of another week,
So last Friday, one of the business guy came over and asked a rather peculiar request, the conversation went like this,
"" -> business guy
// -> me/colleague
"Can you export the code from the repo?"
//uhh, sorry, what?
"Yeah, can you export, the code, from the repo? The latest one?"
//as in the code? You're asking for the source code?
"Yep, that's the one"
//oookay..., what is the purpose of that? What are you going to do with it?
"Nothing, just so that we have it"
//well, we do have it, stored securely in the repo
"Yeah but we need the code, as, you know, physically? not the one in the repo, we want to kinda have another copy for ourselves, just put it in a zip or something"
//again, we already have it stored in the repo, what do you need another copy for?
"Ahhh, you know, just that we know that we have some kind of proof of the state of the progress... of the feature (insert hand gesture) that we're working on, so that we know that we have reached... this... far, or something like that"
//that's what the versions are for, we can always rollback to whichever... past... state (insert hand gesture) that we have done and/or doing, everything is there in the repo,
"Uhhh, it's not much about versions or anything really..."
//so?
"You know, we need like a... documentation of some kind, for ourselves"
//so the code you're asking would be obsolete immediately, there're new changes everyday,
//it's better if you request an access for the repo and refer to a specific version from there if you want to document it,
//we can't compare the copy of the code if something went "not as you would have liked it",
//the documentation would be confusing as the code it's referring to is not the correct source of truth
"Hmmm, yeah, requesting repo access would require a some kind of a strong reason to be approved, besides it's gonna take a while, and it's not about comparing really, its just..., so that we have a copy of the code for our own... documentation"
//(I smell bs) well the argument stands, the code is going nowhere, it's there in the repo, if you would like a copy, request an access for the repo, and you can read/copy/document it all you like from there,
*then it goes for 20 more minutes of roundabout pleas about "documentations" and "having a copy of the code" with other colleagues before the guy gave up and went to think about requesting repo access,
In the rules, repo access is restricted for developer only, except for those with good and acceptable reason can have one, and requesting an access requires some strong reasoning and quite a lengthy procedure for non developer,
Until today, I still can't figure out the context/motive behind the request 🙃
Probably some bs they tried to pull, again,
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Oh, that feeling when you learn the entry level dev, with no useful knowledge, gets paid more than you...
Priceless...5 -
My first PR approved for open source community. WOW !!!
It's felt like heaven. I'm done something useful 😍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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[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 ?
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Totally useful!
Master CS Degree.
More knowledge then most coders.
More knowledge on what’s going to come.
No ragrets 🤷♂️
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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....
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I would ban java and c# from university campuses, and make people learn useful languages instead.26
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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 -
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 af17 -
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.14
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Pro tip to scrum masters: bringing a scrum suitcase to your sprint meetings is more useful than bringing scrumbags.
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Best way to handle any exception...
try{
something
} catch(e) {
window.location.href =
"http://stackoverflow.com/search/...]+"
+ e.message;
}9 -
Someone wrote a website that will convert cm^3 to mL for you. How useful!
Their JavaScript is, unfortunately, less than optimal for such a task however.
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I just trained a neural network to recognize if a word is uppercase. I'm sure it will be useful at some point.5
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//Proof that C++ is godly !
auto water = new Water();
auto wine = reinterpret_cast<Wine>(water);
//Ha ha6 -
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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Windows 10 Enterprise i just hate it cost like a lot and its not useful Linux is free and you can do a lot of things3
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Front-end dev makes site look nice: "that looks great! Nice job"
Back-end dev makes site do everything useful: "right, that's how it's supposed to work"3 -
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 -
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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Anyone starting with java may find this useful.
https://humblebundle.com/books/...
skrew it, i may buy it myself!!!6 -
!rant
One thing I like about DevRant is , even when a rant fails miserably, dev's will find some creative way to make it funny or useful.3 -
!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 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 -
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)...
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Wow @ewpratten and I just witnessed, for the first time in history, the GCC compiler being useful!
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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 -
Finally found a client who thinks TTD and unit tests are useful ways to spend development budget.
Still expecting to wake up.3 -
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!
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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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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 -
Fuck NodeJS and Python, C# and strong-typing is all I need in life. (But python is sometimes useful)11
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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 -
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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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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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 -
Hearing about something I'm not familiar with and spending most of my nights reading and learning about it, you never know what useful tool you will find
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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 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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Never programmed something useful because i have no ideas...
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Never used comments in my projects4 -
Same as last year, make something useful
Also: it's been a whole year since then? Where did the time go? -
please for the love of all that is right in the world...name variables something useful. ll_j does not help me.4
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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 -
I do not think that GoTo is bad. It can lead to hellish code but if you don't misuse it - it can be extremely useful.6
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Thinking of turning my 6 year old intel atom processor netbook into sth useful other than just dumping it.
Any good suggestions to reuse?10 -
@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. -
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 -
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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OMFG! Another git gui? Better make one more calculator for this world. At least it could become useful somehow.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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!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.
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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 -
Hello, anyone got any job search tips and tricks? Generally useful things?
Relevant: Part-time for under 18.3 -
Thought I'd print a useful article on JS design patterns....
Looks like I'll be messing with the CSS for a while!
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Im trying to land my first internship for Software Engineering anybody have some useful tips or places to look?1
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If you're like me and you suck at picking out colour pallets check out https://colorbook.me, it aggregates colour pallets from the top few most popular designs on dribbble (yes that's 3 b's because designers).
My inner limey is in pain right now, I was forced to spell colour incorrectly more than never.2 -
Thanos JS reduces the file size of your project down to 50%, by randomly deleting half of the files.
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The ability to create something, something useful. Software is the intersection of artistry and invention. Honestly, why do anything else?
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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 ?"
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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 -
I use this little guy as a rubber ducky now. He's useful when I'm trying to study stuff which is particularly hard to remember.
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Anyone tried to create your own x window manager and/or screen driver? Can't find enough useful information on the internet.6
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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 -
Can someone plz tell me that are subjects like OOAD(object oriented analysis and design) or requirements engineering actually useful in real projects and jobs...?3
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I love the feeling you get when you absentmindedly discover a useful shortcut using your normal tools.
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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 -
!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! -
!rant
Context = VS Code
What is your 'favorite/most useful/the one that saves your ass' extension for visual studio code6 -
Being useful with what you do.
Do what you enjoy (rolling tables?).
Work somewhere, where the company cares about you. -
It made me happy and motivated, as I can build apps and make my and others work easier. Now I feel useful and challenged.
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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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Reasons, why I started programming:
- Wanted to create own websites
- Create useful tools for private use
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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 -
Ok - so we’re redoing the whole project / none of us are going to do anything useful - and the hard deadline is Friday.
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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 -
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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So, what are some useful / important Android and IOS apps for developers which can help them on the go?4
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Before I was thinking to be wasting my time with tasks no so useful for my life. Then I read about Malbolge programming language
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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 -
!rant
Finally got around to trying out zsh. Any tips and tweaks people find too useful to live without?6 -
Who's on the serverless / AWS lambda train? Can you actually do something useful and production quality yet?5
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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 -
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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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?
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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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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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How do you tell someone their code sucks?? Like why dont you indent?? What's wrong with using useful class names? At least chuck a comment in there...
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!rant
Apples iOS keyboard has a feature on force-touch devices that is very useful: force touch the spacebar and you can now use the keyboard area as a touchpad to freely reposition the cursor. -
I created a few helper functions in bash sometime ago, maybe someone might find it useful
https://github.com/zombieleet/...
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