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Talking to my angry girlfriend is the hardest debugging process.
I can't even find out what went wrong44 -
So, since I hear from a lot of people (on here and irl) that Linux has a 'very high learning curve', let me share my experiences with the first time my dad touched Linux (Elementary OS) without me interfering at all! (keep in mind that he is very a-technical)
*le me boots the system* (I already did setup a user account for him and gave him the password).
Dad: *enters password and presses enter*
Me: "Hmm that went faster than expected."
Dad: "Uhm I know how to login son, it's not that hard and pretty obvious".
Me: "Alright, why don't you try to open up the default word documents editor on here! I'll be right back!"
Me: *Goes away and returns after a minute*.
Dad: *already a few test sentences typed in LibreOffice writer* it's going pretty well :)!
Me: "Oo how did you find that?!"
Dad: "Well, there's a thingy that says 'applications' so I clicked in and found it in the "Office" section, do you think I am blind or something?!"
Me: 😐. uhm no but I just didn't think you'd find it that quickly. Now try to install Chromium browser! *thinking: he'll fail this one for sure* I'll be right back :).
Me: *returns again after a minute or so*
Dad: *already searching for stuff through Chromium*
Me: "wait, how the hell did you do that so quickly, it's not the easiest thingy for most people".
Dad: "Jesus, it's not that hard! I went to the application browsing thingy, typed 'software' and then a sorta software store icon showed up so I clicked it and it opened a windows with a search bar saying something like 'search for applications/software'. clicked in it, typed 'chromium', saw it coming up, there was a very clear 'install' button, it asked for my password, I put it in and after a little it gave a notification that it was installed. Then I went to that application browsing thingy again and typed Chromium. Then I hit enter because it selected an icon called chromium...."
Me: O.o. Okay this is going very good, now open an email client and login to your email address!
Dad: *goes to application browsing thingy, types 'email', evolution icon shows up, dad clicks it, email address setup steps show up and dad follows them quickly. After about a minute, everything is setup.
I expected this to be a hard process for someone who dealt with Windows his entire life but damn, I underestimated it.
Asked him if he found it easy/what he liked about it:
"Well, it's very clear where I can find everything, default browser/email/word document editor programs are easy to find and that's about all I need so yeah, great system!"
I am proud of you, dad!77 -
> Woke up at 03:30 because I am on call and a server went down
> Fixed shit and went to bed
> could not sleep,
> fuck it, drive to work.
> arrive at the office at 04:30
> I can scream stupid shit and noone would hear
> *grin*6 -
Few of us went to the break. After 20 minutes or so, this one guy just stands up, says he’ll be right back, and leaves. We figured he went to the toilet or something. He never came back2
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So I had a job interview and got offered the job on the spot, then I went back to my manager at my current workplace to raise an issue about me being underpaid for this months wages and this is how the conversation went.
Enjoy.
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Had this a few days ago. You know how we all have our reflexes?
Client emailed that a few sites weren't working. I always, always look at the links but that's slowly eradicating because it becomes an automated thing.
Sound was on (only headphones luckily).
*clicks link*
*wild webpage (literally) with webcam girls/shows renders and starts playing sound*
😕
😐 😰 😱 😵 😆 😅
My reflexes then made me go "FUCK FUCK FUCK HOLD ON CRAP FUCKING FUUUUUCK" (you can also take that literally in this context, yes) aaaaaand I somehow automatically closed the whole browser with ctrl+q.
*looks around to see if anyone noticed*
*wipes sweat off forehead*
That went alright 😅10 -
A friend of mine went to her boss and said that she will quit if she won't get 50% salary raise - boss said ok. She told about it her working colleague so he went to the boss and said 50% or I'll quit - boss said cleanup your desk...5
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Fucking hate it when a website asks for feedback when I just fucking went to their homepage. Fuck you.2
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!rant
That feeling when your post went viral and have 500+ concurrent users and still your server works fine.
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Went through this bad boy in 2 days. Yes, I have masochistic tendencies... 1060 pages of sweetness
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You went through .dll hell and survived the .jar hell.
Now you're developing in AngularJS... welcome to scope hell6 -
Bitcoin just went from $2600 to $1870
And ethereum is now $140
Cryptocurrency markrt capacity went almost from $100B to $60B13 -
I went for an interview for a position stated as "web developer" . They questioned me on Pen testing and writing scripts for detecting attacks. This is how the interview went. Fucking get your shit together .Fucking waste of time
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Found my spiritual animal:
- a cat
- Russian
- engineer
- smokes
- looks like he went through some shit
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Someone gave me a web method that return a boolean.
The Boolean tells me if the operation went well.
True means everything went well
False means something went wrong
But
It throws exception when something went wrong.
Basically they implemented a Boolean system to check if everything is alright but I also have to add a try/catch if something is not right.9 -
So I went to a Linux meetup group and there was this dude wearing an Arch Linux shirt and I went straight up to him and mocked him a bit. Had a nice conversation about i3 configs and other nerdy stuff. We stayed in touch via twitter :)4
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Just realised some people have a different devRant theme than mine. Went to settings, and joined the Dark Side.2
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Thought Amazon servers went bonkers seeing these names. Later realized these are episode names for TV series, Mr Robot.
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I had set my phone alarm to go off at 04:00am, with a very irritating tone, to ring nonstop. Having slept late and with a project deadline fast approaching. The alarm went off OK as programmed, I got up and switched it off, and went back to sleep! Reminds me of Mr bean!5
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A company on my LinkedIn is looking for a Jedi programmer to hire again... I guess their first Jedi didn't fair so well.9
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My company went remote since the outbreak, surprisingly, more work was getting done, so we are completely remote.3
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Coworker went on vacation for the first time in forever... I wonder if she'll notice something different 😂😳
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Formatted my laptop,download chrome through edge and went to change default browser and I see this..........
Microsoft begging lol
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Week to make a decision my ass. Two workdays.
"Hi Agred,
Thanks again for the friday's meeting!
After a short consideration, of course we would like to start working with you :)
[...]
I hope you're still interested in working with us and that we will start working together soon!"
O
M
F
G
Wow. "[...] of course we would like to start working with you". Just wow. This "of course" part really got me.
So, I've only got a month left in my current company. Goodbye working alone! Goodbye being the only person in Java and C# "departments". Goodbye stagnation!
Goodbye, Moonmen6 -
I am laughing and crying at the same time.
I did a high value transaction with Google Pay, and now I cannot see the transaction details in history for this specific transaction (The money was transferred correctly though). When I open the history entry, it says "Something went wrong, please try again".
So after waiting for a week, I went to report a bug with Google from within the app. And when I press submit, I get an error.
Wanna guess what's the error?
ITS FUCKING "SOMETHING WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGAIN"!
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so I had a very important video conference for some rather large cloud infrastructure that Im engineering. I decide to look "smart" so i decided to wear a jersey during the video call. I aced the meeting, happy people all round. I walk to my room and my wife says "you do know your jersey is inside out...and back to front..and the label is sticking out from under your chin....How did the meeting go?" me:"..fine until you pointed out a look like a 2 year old dressed me !" ... well thats one way to kill the happy feels!3
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My Saturday evening went regretting about not doing anything productive today.
And I repeat this every f***ing weekend!7 -
That feeling when a company HR person (recruiter) tells you after your interview that this has been the best interview so far and you have made her day
:)7 -
Nobody:
Me going insane minutes before midnight: I made a OpenWRT LXC container
(It's also in images.linuxcontainers.org)
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Manager after google went down: Hey I don't want our project to go like google. Once one server went down, gmail went down, then youtube, then drive, and everything else with it. Could we separate all of our features into different servers so that if one thing goes down, the rest aren't affected?
NO9 -
Went to hackathon
Earlier Thinking :- C language is father of all
Now :- Python is Godfather LOL ☺☺☺
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I'm getting annoyed with the increasing number of platforms that implement the "Oops, something went wrong" vague error message.9
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When someone you know IRL knows your devRant username and went through all your posts and comments. 😳3
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Girlfriend : What's wrong with you nowadays!!!
Me : Something went wrong and I'm trying to solve it. -
Went into home office today.
Forgot the laptop charger.
Half the days over and I'm at 16% battery.
Fuck.10 -
Blisk, a browser with multiple device testing for developers, went from free to subscription model.. Time blocking features that they offered before, for free.
That's suicide. That's how you lose your install base...
Just deleted it and went back to http://material.io/resizer.3 -
Okay then, everything's fine, I'm sure this is normal... Windows went to sleep mode while applying an update.3
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My social life consists of spending much of my free time with my girlfriend, seeing my close family on weekends and meeting with a few friends from time to time.
It's enough for me and since there's not much of it, it isn't hard to "balance". Whatever that means.
Seriously tho, "social/work life balance" is subjective. It depends on what you need to feel good and happy. What works for some will not work for others. Don't try to push others into being social when they don't want to. Don't give me that "you need to go out more" crap. I don't. I'm fine just like this. I prefer to stay home and see a movie with my girlfriend.
That "people need to be social" mindset made me feel bad about myself for too long because I'm just not like that and people keep pushing that idea into my head. I'll go out with you when I feel like it, don't push it. Stop asking me every fucking weekend ffs.2 -
Node.js homepage went full retard. Black people don’t need more Node?js. Actually, noone should need this.
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Me: flutter upgrade
*15 minutes later*
Me: cool all done!
Me: flutter run
Flutter: gotta redownload that successfully installed update all over again because fuck you!
*cries in corner*5 -
Me trying to copy a file from pendrive to Hard disk.
Status- 45 seconds left...
Went to College, completed Bachelor, went to university, completed Masters, got married, had two children, got retired from job, returned to the same PC
Status- 45 Seconds left... -
I went to gym people there helped me to become fit.
I went to common kitchen in my hostel, people their taught me basics of cooking.
I went to learn code people mocked me for using Java(replace with any technology) not python(replace with any technology with swag) -
Got blames for 2 hours because our product went down.
Because the provider of license managment went down.
Well, now I put in place a "fuck you" work around. If licensing provider is down, people can still connect and use product (But not create new accounts).
So silly. -
Situation:
Php not loading oci8 connector for oracle database in windows server, got the all famous and feated oci_connect unknown function error.
Solution:
Check to make sure that the stupid dll is in the extensions folder ---> check
Check to make sure that the extension_dir path is done properly inside php.ini ---> check
Ensure that extension=php_oci8_11g.dll is inside php.ini ---> check
I have no fucking clue why this piece of shit would stop working all out of the sudden and would not fucking work. But here i am yet AGAIN trying to fix something for the fucking web tech department because their fucking lead dev is out.
I
Fucking
HATE
Having to deal with php configurations. Such a fucking pain in the fucking ass man.
FUUUUCKING WOOOOOORK8 -
Started to Work after school and did not went to any University like all of my friends. Best choice ever 👌. A half year later I moved in with my girl, went on holidays I could not afford before and got the best colleagues at work😁3
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The Gold Rush of 1849.... everyone went to the west coast to mine gold.
The Bitcoin Rush of 2009.... everyone went to the GPU to mine Bitcoin.5 -
mongpoop
this is how our upgrade from mongoose v5 to v6 went
v5: strictQuery is false by default
v6: strictQuery is true be default
^ realized this once our update went live, we are now manually migrating several hundreds of production data.
v7: strictQuery is false by default.
what!!!2 -
these days Internet startups and companies what you to do something without Internet, they says what if whole internet went down, what will you do then? dude if Internet went down, your company would not exists 😒
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I'm supposed to migrate a WP site and modify it accordingly by tomorrow.....
Went on a shopping spree instead.4 -
Shit.
Shit shit shit.
Accepted to do an "outside-of-work" job, which is about migrating a website from a CMS to another one, and I have extremely badly estimated the time it would take... Now the guy highly expects the website to be fully delivered at the date I told him... Which is in 21 days... I also lost two weeks since he wanted to migrate to Magento, but being inexperienced on it, barely managed to make it run. Managed to convince him to go on Prestashop... Much easier but so much to do, for such a "small" site (6-7 templates)
I think I need to find some help, and quickly :/ :/3 -
Today, I was sad because of a problem that I could not fix for the past month. I was so desperate and disappointed that I seriously considered switching career. Then mentor helped me fixed it. To say that I went ballistic is an understatement, I went intercontinentally ballistic.
How is everyone's day going?2 -
Wondering how on earth the article 50 petition went down today. Someone must have been playing with loadtest!
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Just went to whatthefont on my phone and uploaded an image and it asked me for microphone permissions lol
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I went to some hot springs.
One of the tubs read "Medicinal water".
I went in.
Eventually my balls started to burn.
Got out and showered until the sensation went away.
Medicinal water, never again.5 -
Finally. Fuck the exams (eventhough they went quite well). At last I can start work on my scripting language14
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I've been programming a simple DB engine all day. As my commit describes, i cant tell how it went...
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Learnt C++ from Bucky, New Boston as my first.
Then went crazy afterwards on YouTube blog posts and Books -
My tablet that I had all my code for an app just took a shit out of no where it was never dropped not even a scratch it just went black and well never went back fuck my entire existence
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Toilet Dev rant - my urine went into mute mode when that creepy business head almost 7 feet stood in the urinal next to me and said hi. What the fuck from such height he can easily view the entire map of the urinals and what not. And why the fuck my urine went mute not even a single drop went through. I hate it2
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My Windows laptop randomly shut down 3 times tonight. I then had to completely reboot, but it looked as if the computer just went to sleep. Always at the worst times too just as I went to do something. Seriously, Microsoft?3
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Went from notepad++(and it’s mac equivalent Brackets) to Dreamweaver CC and VS Code.
Feels good man!11 -
11:30 working hours logged for today. Went against the #NoDeploymentFriday rule. Fingers crossed 🤞 for the weekend
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i did the php tutorial on sololearn of boredom and for fun (and maybe in hope for some new insights). it was a fun hour. and fewer surprises as expected. nice to be classified as advanced 🙂
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Stackoverflow, gorm.io and reddit all went down while we were researching documentation. Thanks Cloudfare1
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So got my pixel 2 XL screen replaced after months of waiting on the part, took it to my usual repair guy and it was fixed within the hour, everything was all fine.
Went home, went to take a photo aaaaaaaaand cameras aren't working.... For fuck sake!
Why can't I have nice things...3 -
Literally vs figuratively... That hilarious anecdote where something went derp did not cause you to literally die. You fuckwit.1
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This person suggests that youtube went down, because somethign went wrong while moving to different transport layer network protocol.
https://twitter.com/fahadjax/...1 -
DoorDash wants its non-driver staff to dogfood the product.
lol. ok.
https://sfgate.com/tech/article/...20 -
Trying to create this app me and my dad talked about is the biggest project for me and lately it's been insanely stressful so what does everyone else do for stress management and app planning? I need help4
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Don't buy stocks in companies just because your former coworkers went there and got a huge pay boost11
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Retrospective does not seem to work in practice as it does in theory.
Complain about what went wrong and what went right. Then at the next one, those issues still exist.
I might as well just have written in a diary to air my frustrations -
Oops! Something went wrong! :(
ESLint: 8.57.0
TypeError: require(...).pathToFileURL
Did someone move fast and break things again? -
A random Thought: So, let me get this straight, the programmers that went to university think that the ones that didn't went to university are incompetent and all those that didn't went to university think that all that did are incompetent, right?5
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Came across this
Is making apps haram?
The answer top answer would surprise you
https://islam.stackexchange.com/que...5 -
Nothing like starting your Monday morning with a call from your senior developer saying that the merge went horribly.
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My devrant went Japanese suddenly, well both English and Japanese, happen to anyone else? Is it some promo?16
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Got an invite from an recruitment agency, went for the exam. Was hoping I get rejected 😐😑😕 ( I never passed an exam). After exams went home.
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Got a message on my phone " You are selected for interview".
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Went there for the interview.
They asked very simple questions.
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2 hours after.
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The agency people calls my name.
.
You are selected for the job.
🙌
Now it has been 3 Years...1 -
Did it happen to you guys that the interview actually went very well but you never got selected? And then you think what would have went wrong but to no avail.3
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Went for an internship interview today
Interviewers= tell us a little about yourself
Me thinking haha I can mention the time I took a 300 level course in my freshman year (have ranted about this) and show them I can take up a challenge = I'm known in my batch for not making smart decisions
Interviewers = sarcastic clap
What the actual fuck,no why why would I even start off like this fucking shit what even am I stupid what even. Great job man great job.3 -
When the users say UAT went brilliant yet mysteriously all goes BOOM when feature goes live. #aDayInTheLifeOfAdev
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Had a release retro today.
We had the usual Trello board with columns for "what went well, what was bad, what can we improve" etc.
columns for the bad and the improvements had 10-20 cards each.
column for what went well was empty.... -
Today I went to a restaurant and I heard some "developers" talking about games. They were talking about an unfamous MOBA game. And the next thing I heard was "I hate MOBA games.... There are too many players". I never went back to that restaurant.
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So today I started in Cambridge, went to Birmingham then Manchester now I'm in Sunderland and back to Cambridge tomorrow. I don't mind driving but almost every motorway I went on had like 20 miles of average speed checks at 50 due to "road works"
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Evilzone.org just went up after being down. For quite some time. If anyone knows anything subhacker. Net post
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DB migrations give the chills.
This one went well. It worked as expected but that "uneasy" feeling lingers... -
Getting frustrated with errors I can't replicate or identify! After spending ages trying to find what's gone wrong and failing, its so embarrassing to suggest "try logging off and logging back in again"
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