No, thank you, you nice little app. If you wanted to call someone to find out the weather, I think I can do it myself.

Interlude (Break Room)

Me (Lead Developer), HR lady (HR)

Enter stage right ME

Me > "Oh hey HR lady, how was your vacation?"

HR lady > "Well, we didn't end up taking the kids to Disneyland after all."

Me > "What? Why not? Come on, I have to hear this!"

HR lady > "Long story short my husband and I are getting a divorce."

Me > "Oh shi-"

My mother just got angry at me because she asked me what kind of sd card the one in my living room is.

"What kind of card is it?"
"What do you mean?"
"What kind it is"
"But... Categorized as what?"
"You know what I mean"
"No, I don't know."
"is it 8 or 16 or 32?"
"when you ask me, what kind it is, there are other things in my mind than the storage size..."
"oh come on, it's totally..."
"please don't say that it is logical again."
"...logical what I mean."
"if it was, I wouldn't have to ask what you mean. There are multiple things that you could've meant and the storage is the only one I didn't think of with that question."

Sorry people, I'm not fluent at idiot.
I'm so stupid that I still hope for her to ask questions that are specific and can't be interpreted in 20 different ways after over 20 years.

Omg...
T-Mobile AT was asked, why they store passwords in plain text, and in a long discussion, they answered this (see img)

I don't know, if this is a late april fool...

RE: Why I punched Dave
In my defense to the accusation against me punching back end developer dave in the face, look at the following response:
HTTP 1.1
status: 200
mesaage: OK
body: {
"success": "false",
"message": "error"
}

WHY U DO DIS JAVASCRIPT

Went to a shop to buy bubble plastic envelopes (gotta send something carefully).

Walked out with a new Bluetooth music headset, couple of charging cables, Ethernet cable and a music input splitter and also those envelopes.

Why am I like this 😓

Why would you even do this? People don't read these anyways...

It is bothering me more than it should

Do you ever wonder why the UK public sector has such a bad computer system? This! This is why!!! What a frigging waste of money!!!! Every computer in the school has this stupid set up!!!

*Stages of debugging*
1. That can't happen.
2. That doesn't happen on my machine
3. That shouldn't happen.
4. Why does that happen?
5. Oh, I see.
6. How did that ever work?

A checkbox for GENDER.

(ONLY ONE CHECK BOX.)
If checked, then male, else female.

Your app works.
You do some changes.
It doesn't work anymore...
You restore the old code.
It still doesn't work... WHY?

Why thank you, I'd love you private key random person on stack overflow

Why the Fuck anyone who knows programming is assumed to be nerdy ?
Also, this guy's "multilingual" approach backfired strong

First day on the phone as a support guy!
Before the first call came in I thought like 'please no email related issues as that's the one thing I suck at!'

Fair enough, first call:
Me: hello, how can I help you?
Customer: well, we've got this email problem...
Me thinking: MOTHERFUCKING FUCKING FUCK WHY ME 😭
Me: what seems to be the problem?

Damn, really?!

For fucks sake, Facebook....
Why the fuck are you showing me an add for MY FUCKING PAGE!!! I paid for that shitty add and you show it to me?!? Why the fuck would you do that?!?
You know that I'm the fucking admin and I ALREADY LIKED THE PAGE!!!
Get your fucking shit together mate! 😡

In IT-Class:

Random: Ey watcha doin?
Me: Programming. What else?
Random: Oh, you're such a nerd...
Me: Programming is fun! I really like it.
Random: Please don't say this is your hobby...
Me: It is.
Random: Bruuh... *goes away*

Why the fuck are you here, if you're not interested in programming???
I don't understand such people.

Our programming teacher always wanted us to do this (in C#):

somedatatype somevarname;
somevarname = somevalue;

You were NEVER allowed to:

somedatatype somevarname = somevalue;

"Can't I just do it in one line?"
"No."
"Why?"
"<insert dumb statement here that gives no reason whatsoever>"

Why people don't understand that?

Facepalm: when 3/3 sys admins ask me today, "Why do you have that garbage chrome installed on your computer? You should be using IE or Edge"

Actual conversation:
- Vim has weird commands. For instance, you copy by typing "Y".
- Why?
- Correct.

Dear Apple,
WHY DA FUCK DO I HAVE TO DOWNLOAD 4+ GB EVERY SINGLE TIME I HAVE TO UPDATE X-FUCKING-CODE? A goddamn patch would be more than sufficient.

*sigh* Don't you just love it when people are clueless?
The IT staff were mucking around in the server room today to try to find out why our internet connection was getting bottlenecked. One of the IT dudes found an old PC with the software monitoring our connection on it. To make a long story short he infected it with a fucking virus. The virus spread through all unprotected computers on the network (alot) and killed our prod server. We have backups yes, but I seriously think management is considering just giving up and starting from scratch. Oh, and we lost a full years worth of work because the same idiot corrupted our most recent backup.
FML

GIVE ME A PROPER FUCKING CHANGELOG

Ok, people who invented CSS... which seems more intuitive and easier to read?

div {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}

Or

div {
center-this-damn-div: true;
}

"Trinidad And Tobago" changed their country name to "Trinidad & Tobago", and the .Net framework reflected that change.
So that's why this unit test is failing.

I GUESS BULLSHIT IS NOW INTERNATIONAL.

Project manager, a few months ago: "why did you do this task? It's all wrong. It's a backend task, not a frontend task so you shouldn't have done it. Don't do it again."

PM, today, regarding the same task in a different project: "why didn't you do this task? The project isn't complete without it. It isn't right. You should have done it."

Are you fucking serious? If we do it it's wrong, if we don't do it it's wrong too. So why should I bother? Seriously, fuck you you piece of shit.

Fucking HR interviews. Fucking "tell me about yourself" and pretending to seem interested in what i have to say while you think about how you did it with a guy behind the dumpster.
For fucks sake, i am a developer, i have spent more time with coding language than human language. I speak more to a rubber duck than to my friends. That's what you want to know about me?
I am here to fix your fucking site that uses flash plugin in 2017 and you want me to tell good things about your company?
Do you want me to tell you the details about your site that i got from whois and that your subscribed domain registration will end in September this year?
You don't know what responsive design is and you dare interview me?
Thanks for wasting my time and telling me shit about your company and how you have offices in germany and china. Well guess what? I dont care. I am busy thinking about some girl... Actually i am thinking about my side project. I dont know why i pretend to be cool?

* playing music on MacBook
* turn down volume
* plug in headphones
* volume jumps to max and ears bleed

why semi colon;
why not exclamation mark!

showMeTheAnswer()!

Time to until data download completes is 35%

why? #redundantcoworkers

When you write code and forget to comment it, and then you come back and try to figure out why the heck you wrote certain parts of it.

Let this be a lesson for future me.

But why would you want it to look like windows when you are using Linux?

Friend asked me to help with his HTML5 form validation. His back-end work was decent, but whoever did the front-end... Oh boy.

They used media queries for mobile etc, which was fine. Until I saw what the queries did. Instead of resizing the form accordingly, they hide the visible one and make another one visible.

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

why the fuck do people on here like firefox quantum:

- windows: works, does its job well, but fuck it!

- php: works, does its job well, but fuck it!

- wordpress: kinda does its job, but fuck it!

- firefox quantum: works, does its job well, but ❤️ it

Java 10 is out... oh boy. Didn't they release Java 9 less than a year ago, though? Why are they suddenly releasing updates so fast?

Why do people use "hashtags" in their posts' main text? There is even a separate input field for tags when creating a rant. #fuckingstop

My Friends say i´m no dev...
Why???? :(
I love do Sports,
I have free time,
I´m eating healthy,
I don't like coffee....

I know it's kinda old but it still gets me every time XD

Why Windows, do you need to spent 30 fucking minutes getting your Shit together after an update when I can leave a Linux distro basically alone for 6 months, come back, update it AND STILL FUCKING USE IT. Yet you fail at even starting remotely promptly.

On an SSD. With enough RAM. Top notch hardware. YOU STILL FUCKING FLAP AROUND LIKE A DUCK HAVING A STROKE ON A FROZEN FUCKING LAKE!

Never make a question in stack overflow without having a LOT of points

... I am not really sure what I mean

"Why is doesn't the script work?"
*checks file*
"Oh, the file is empty.😑"

PayPal documentation

I can code better then most CS students, but if I want to go to university I have to take things like calculus... why

New semester, new problems....

Just started my 6th semester at uni and my teammates are already proving to be serious dumbfucks..

They want to keep all files neat and organized, sure, fine, good idea.
They want to use Dropbox to store code and our LaTeX report, no, never! Somehow managed to get them to switch to GitHub, yay!
They want to have everything in one fucking repo! Why? Oh god, why? And I can't change their mind on this!
And they still want to use Dropbox to have a backup and sync between their machines...

So during this semester, we will store our LaTeX report and the, at minimum, 3 code projects, in the same repo organized by folder!
Why not one project, one repo? Then I won't have to pull all the shit code that I don't have to work with!

Expect more rants in the coming months...

do you ever get that feeling when you suddenly wake up from sleep and immediately have the solution that has been bothering you for weeks or is it just me?

it happened to me today. woke up and magically had a solution to a problem I had with unity (it works now).

Why does a big company only look at your diploma and a startup only look at your github ?

I present you, WhatsApp Web.
For every favicon, there is a function.
And it is selected by object's key.
And object's key is represented with double qutoe marks inside single quote marks.
' "BUT WHY" '

Objective c is the ugliest most esoteric programming language there is and it has no place in modern development.

Why is this happening ?

*spends a long time crafting a huge eBay post (we're moving)
* tries to drag and drop first picture
* page navigates to the picture without warning
* loses everything

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

WHEN DRAGGING A PICTURE INTO A WEB PAGE I NEVER WANT TO NAVIGATE TO A PAGE WITH JUST THAT IMAGE. WHY NO WARNING BEFORE LEAVING THE PAGE. WHY DON'T YOU SAVE TEXT LOCALLY. WHY DOES THE WEB SUCK SO HARD. AAAGGGHHHH.

* feels better
* starts over

Installing arch,
everything works perfectly,
installing grub,
won't install to partition,
use force option,
grub installs,
grub boots,
select arch,
failure...

Looking through the config file I discover a uuid I don't recognise, oh,
that's because literally no device or partition marches this uuid that appeared from the damn ether.
After changing it to point to an existent partition it works...
But seriously grub, why does your setup script just pull addresses out of it's ass? I lost 10 minutes because I thought you were trustworthy...

Steps to writing Javascript in 2018:
1. mkdir and touch necessary files.
2. install and configure babel.
35. Start configuring webpack.
900. open app.js

Found this gem today
A 'different' way of casting a float into an int

Why the fuck would you use Internet Explorer or Edge?

- Every web developer, ever

Goddamit! Why does hitting Ctrl+Y in android studio is set to delete a line by default? Shouldn't it be redo? Who the fuck designed it? Thank God I can reassign keyboard shortcuts in android studio.

This is how I feel while coding a system whitout tdd or any kind of tests, and it's the company's major system... Anyone else?

FUCK YOU TUMBLR! I SPEND THE LAST 10 MINUTES UNCHECKING EVERY FUCKING THING AND YOU DON'T ALLOW ME TO TOUCH THE LAST ONE!?
Why is there no uncheck all- button 😤😭

Holy fucking cockgoblin!

If you interview for a senior position, please, for the sanity of your interviewer (me), make sure you know how to declare variables and how to iterate over an array in the language which the shitgoblin (you) "love and use all the time".

Of course the interviewer (me) is gonna be polite and let the shitgoblin (you) code out your 50-line solution for a 3-line problem, but after 2 hours watching the shitgoblin contemplate solutions that anyone who ever opened a fucking beginners tutorial by accident could answer, the interviewer might prefer to have been on a Justin Bieber concert or have sucked huge sweaty ballsacks for those two hours.

I know that interviews can be hard and stressful - I've been there, am there, and at some point will be there again - but please, for the love of nonexistent gods, don't be a time-wasting shitnugget but prepare yourself!

Started with planning to develop super Mario Bros. Using python.
Ended up with a music player which can play ogg (and mp3 files with 320 kbps bitrate) .
Why!?

Sorry, just a newbie here. But I would like to ask why do a lot of people hate Microsoft?

He's been showing this for 15min now... And I'm supposed to be in a call...

Why does FireFox has the shittiest dev tools?
Working on my website and it kept throwing "TypeError: Failed to fetch"
with no other info

Opened Chrome and that thing gave me the entire error without even modifying my logs code, and now I can peacefully solve the problem -.-

Today I looked at some code from our CTO. He used plain SQL Statements with huge selects and no prepared statements.

I asked him:
1. why dont you build some helpers or even use some frameworks?
2. why are there no prepared statements?

His answer (to both questions)
We do not need that. That just uses too much ressources and time. It's more cleaner and simpler this way.

My Face: 😵

Why is it that people hate Microsoft so much? I honestly never had an issue with them. Is it just hate because it's Microsoft and people are ignorant or are there reasons to that?

On Debian:

apt-get install 'package name' -> Fails.
add apt repository
add GPG key
apt-get update
apt-get install 'package name' -> Fails.
add testing, contrib and non-free
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install 'package name' -> Worked.

On FreeBSD
portsnap fetch
portsnap fetch extract update
cd /usr/ports/path_to_your_app
make clean install

Out of the two, I honestly can't see any reason why anybody would prefer the repository approach over ports.

Yes, using ports is slower, and you have to compile from sources but at least there's a single approach with FreeBSD, not dozens.

Unless you can be bothered using something like Gentoo or Slackware, I can't see any rational reason to use Linux over FreeBSD on a server platform, and I'd even seriously consider FreeBSD on a desktop if you know your graphics card is supported!

The Linux kernel is huge, the distros are overcomplicated, there are several package management tools, several documentation tools, dozens of forks of the various applications, you can never really remove any unused libraries as you might accidentally knock out another application which needs them.

I used to run Caldera many years ago - nice, slick system with very minimal bloat. The original KDE was lovely to work with (not pretty, but neither was Windows 95).

The same could be said for RedHat 5 - slick, fast, well documented and generally pretty damn nice to work with. The installer was good, if a little basic, but it worked.

Debian 4 was good too, it ran faultlessly for 5 years on a machine I used at uni, and it was really solid. It took several weeks to install and tune it properly, but it was slick.

In comparison, Ubuntu, Debian 7, CentOS (not as bad), Mint (utterly AWEFUL) are all bloated, mismatched and messy.
Then there was Mandrake, which I used to love, which then became Mandriva after a marge with Conectiva, then it turns into Mangela after a load of dev are laid off... it's just baffling!)

The ALSA/PuleAudio mess is basically cobbled together, driver support is largely oak so long as you never want to install a proprietary Nvidia driver, wifi is ok if your adapter is supported out of the box but if you need a specific firmware, you’re screwed.

If you happen to have a card for which the WPA supplicant isn’t correctly configured, you might as well ditch the card.
Every install of Linux I’ve tried in the past 5 years has had something broken on it. There’s a sliding scale of “working” from totally broken, to almost perfect.
No Linux install I’ve used has EVER hit the top end, but lately, it seems that they’re all sliding lower and lower.

Debian 6 ran beautifully on my wife’s laptop, until one day it decided to flip the screen through 90 degrees, and wouldn’t flip back. There’s no orientation sensor on it, but after an update, it decided that it was rotated and that was it.
This was a Xorg issue, as in the console it was fine.

On one of my desktops, the network device would periodically stop working - turns out a power saving mode was being activated, and I had no way to configure it other than to have another machine ping it every 5 minutes.

It’s all a mess of workarounds, with no solid fixes.
Considering that every Linux distro has essentially the same target in mind (free, powerful, well featured software), it staggers me that they’re all working toward the same goal but separately.

FreeBSD isn’t very automated, and it’s certainly not as slick an OS as many of the Linux distros, but I’ve got it set up with very few headaches, using one installation manual, and haven’t needed to google anything.

Not bashing Linux here, but it does make you think….

#imnotverysmart

I had quite the rage at the Unreal Engine just now.

Why would you make the Z-axis up and down? 😐

Why the hell in our profession asking: "Why ?" is such a taboo?

Shouldn't it be exactly opposite?

You know... fuck frontend development.

I don't mind developing a nice interface and thinking about how users will work with my software. But I HATE (lack of a stronger word) the whole npm/grunt/bower/yarn/everyfuckingframeworkclient chaos.

Can we just pick ONE fucking tool and mature it.

...

There

!rant
As a self taught, I used to break what i want to learn into pieces and watch tutorials where people use these pieces. Then I could easily do what I learned, but I could do it exactly how I learned it from the tutorials.
Until one glorious day I found a tutorial about js that doesnt teach you the "how" of things but the "why" of things.
I cant describe how easy and in depth I understand js tutorials now. It is easier even when I have to learn a new framework.
It feels like I fast-forwarded my knowledge growth overnight.
I now see my 3 weeks old code and it disgusts me.

I'm in a slack channel with our fellow devs as a side chat for downtime.

We get to talking about coding, and then it led to the tools of coding then it led to OS debate.

I said I use Windows because it's what I work the fastest with. Then out of nowhere, they start flaming me, calling me random boy and there's really nothing I can do about it, because the "elitests" keep piling on the list of why Windows is bad.

Why is it that when I go into a coding server and I link a Windows solution to said problem, I get flamed for it?

It's honestly like I can't use software without someone trying to dox me (even if that is a overstatement)

It's when you lack electricity that you really start to question your life style

why would you do this to our codebase, dear teammate?

every good dev I know says Node.js is bullshit, but no one will explain precisely why :/

return (bool)$result === true ? true : !true;

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

!dev

Have any of you heard that Melinda gates does not want to invest in "White guys with hoodies?"

That mogul said that she won't invest in white startups, because "she wants to invest in venture firms that focus on women and minorities — while deriding the venture capital (VC) industry for its lack of diversity." Are you actually pissing me here? I thought that she was a businesswoman! I am pretty sure that, business doesn't work like that. Shouldn't you invest in startups that have good ideas? Ideas that will change a technology, or introduce some new amazing invention, or at least give some kind of profit?

I think that this is going too far. I am afraid that, by the time I enter and graduate college, that most companies will be thinking like that. This is honestly scary. So, what she's telling me, is that if there's a team of white men, who have a great idea, but there's also a team of colored women who have a worse idea, that she will invest in them?! Like what the actual hell? This is bloody racism!

If companies start hiring and promoting people, based on their gender or skin color, doesn't that make them sexist and/or racist? Why do they argue that you "cannot be sexist or racist against white people/men." I am afraid that, if America keeps going in this direction, white men will turn into what black men experienced in the 1960s.

the article: goo.gl/vhv36K

If you are going to make a JS library, why not zoidberg.js

Ummm, why exactly do you need to see my calendar to show me the list of contacts?!

Why do people hate Windows 10? Why so much hate to the Windows 10??

For about 3x years now, we have had 3x generic work email addresses that are used as microsoft accounts for office 2016 licenses.
(The company is dragging its heels on getting office 365 so MS like to make our lives hell.)

Suddenly we can’t get office updates... and when we sign in to see why, it says that because we are apparently only 3 years old we need our parents permission to use the account or we’ll lose access by September.
Never were we forced to enter a DOB when setting the accounts up!!! So it used the account setup date instead.

It turns out that we can’t change our DOB ourselves, as we are a ‘child’ and need a parents permission.
Fine.
I access my personal account and follow the instructions to add the 3x email addresses as my children so i can change the DOB.

‘Ha ha’ i hear microsoft saying, ‘it doesn’t work that way!!’

No, In order for the parent to verify their child’s identity, they are charged 0.50c per child!
Wtf!!
Doesn’t cost a lot but come on Microsoft!!

It’s that, or submit ID, which obviously wont work for a generic support@ email address like we have.
So annoying and we don’t know what to do.
Wonder how much MS are making out of this...

Today I was working on a laptop. I needed to uninstall a program because i had to install the newest version of it. That process usually takes 2 hours, but 3 hours passed and the uninstall was still at 35%. I went on the task manager to see if I could figure out what is running on the laptop, that's when I saw this.... This laptop has been on for 314 days. This cannot be a normal thing to do on a laptop specially when running Windows. Why do this?

Why can't people either stop taking my stuff or learn how to use linux?

People keep trying to use my stuff (without permission) and then all they do is annoy me( call me a hacker or try to 1up me) or they get mad because they don't understand Linux.(my laptop boots into Cli by default)

Why does this even exist??😢
Translation:
Knowing the road on the Internet with Internet Explorer 9.

When code breaks and you don't know why.

People who use light theme on their IDE, why? Why?

I still don't get why my lead tried to fuck me with a shoe

Why does the Snapchat ad for a "blender cake" have to have a trailer involving blending rubber ducks? Do they not know how useful those are????

I will never understand why people are doing this

There's apparently a number of emoji Android 6 doesn't support but other people are using (attached pic). :/:/:(

I don't get why nowadays people still buy smartphones with battery capacity between 2500mAh and 3500mAh meanwhile there are cheap enough smartphones with fricking 5000mAh(or more)!

Typing from 3 day averagely lasting smartphone, with my use.

Tl:dr Guy acts like a moron and is useless in group tasks.

In my class there is this one guy, that I'll just call carl. Now Carl do some stuff that irritates me, but is harmless. Things like repeat the answer he get's every time he asks a question. I fucking hate it, but it's okay. He also says some pretty stupid stuff. Like today when he asked why Ubuntu started when he turned on a computer, the guy next to him simply said because it's installed while I facepalmed.
Carl does even worse things than that. I was asked to work with Carl on a group task.
Now I hate talking in front of people, so we decided that I would do the writing and he would speak to the rest of the class.
I made a word document containing what he had to say, but we also wanted a PowerPoint presentation to make it look better and so the other could get read the basics on what we we were presenting.
Carl decided that he could create the PowerPoint presentation, and I thought why not. The thing I didn't expect was that Carl would install Ubuntu on his laptop, without saving the presentation somewhere else. In other words HE FUCKING DELETED IT.
But it's fine he could just create it using a program that isn't PowerPoint. OH WAIT OF COURSE CARL FOUND A WAY TO TO FUCK THIS. The next time we had that subject he came without his laptop (we use our laptops in all our courses) because he managed to make it unusable, although he fixed it a few days later.
At that point I said fuck it and created the presentation myself.
At this point I didn't trust Carl with anything sharper than a spoon and decided, against our previous, plans to present it with him. Now I sent him the Word and PowerPoint documents so he would now what to say and what the class was going to see.
THIS GUY DECIDED TO JUST READ WORD FOR WORD OF THE POWERPOINT AKA NOT THE THING I ASKED HIM TO DO. So half the the time it was me going into slight detail about advertisement on the net and how people finding your company on google helps to sell products, AND THE OTHER WAS HIM SAYING A FEW WORDS. JESUS CHRIST, Carl basically didn't do shit yet he acted like he did. That's something that really makes me mad.

My stack overflow experience in a nutshell "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account"

I don't know why but every time I look at a clock and it says 20:15 I always think like ohhh it's the current year. I then realize that it's not 2015 anymore. Am I the only one who does this?

I heard, that its a pain to do pair programming with me, but why?!

I still wonder why people go to programming classes thinking a dev is paid a lot. Not all devs are paid a lot and it takes passion and hard work to be a good dev. Don't just go there for the money. You'll regret wasting your life.

First time doing web development for front end AND back end and I just want to say...

FUCK YOU YOU SHITTY ASS BOLLOCK DRIPPINGLY RETARDING CACHE, WHO YOU LOAD THINGS I NO WANT YOU TO LOAD...WHY THO?...

Well that was 2 hours of my life wasted....

!dev

TL;DR: Computer rooms closed? Ok. Music rooms closed? Fuck!

I understand why the computer rooms are locked up in breaks and not accessible for every student anytime. But..

Why on earth are the music rooms closed as well?!

It wasn't always like that. But stupidass teacher Mr Fucker decided that he wants the music rooms (plural) for himself in breaks. That means they are both empty 90% of the time after 13:00 Uhr and in breaks. Closed. While I could play piano in my free time where I have to stay in school anyways. But no.

Fuck you, Mr Fucker.

DevRant should have a sort by random I am tired of reloading and get basically the same thing but in different orders

Why do so many programmers who aren't developing for Mac/iOS use Macs for their job? Why not use Linux and get a better specced computer for the same price?

Why don't people secure their devices if they are on a shared network? I just ran a network scan and found 3 raspberrys, all of them with the default credentials....

Urgent!
When down voting needs to be add a non dev related and add to the setting a option to hide all rants voted non dev related.
Basacly like repost but it says non dev related

ME: ok its time to create a game let's see... i will do a 2d pixel art game and... it will be medieval type of game... ok lets start by creating a character design.

*30 minutes later*

Me: I quite!!!

Mixing tabs and spaces on collabs with my friends

So I just got into computer science College after a long period of being exited as all hell. Letting my dreams run wild with all the people that I'll meet and how we'll share information and debate over serious issues. less than a week into college I find out that people don't know shit and some of them are asking : "where are the brackets on the keyboard" while others ask what's the difference between Gmail and mail...............
I was devastated. (still am)

Why devRant cats are overweight? 🤔

Fucking kill me. I've just agreed to make a shitty fucking app that would be better as a Webpage, using shitty fucking technologies I don't understand, to do a thing that would be better handled by a third party.
You know why? The guy who asked me to do it is a good friend, and I'm the "best (only) code monkey" he knows. FUCK MY LIFE.

At least I'm getting payed

A friend just asked me if I can convert a pdf to an image file.
Me: yes sure (easier to do than to ask why)
Me: What format do you want it in JPG or PNG?
Friend: yes
Me: ...

Sometimes it's easier to just do it than to start asking and teaching people how to use computers...

Ransomware has the effect to destroying data and my will to live.

I come in to work yesterday to see everyone panicking. We got hit by WannaCry. The boss is with IT dealing with it and sends all of us home. No biggie, since all of my work data is backed up on an offsite server.

I come back into work to still see everyone in a frenzy. I think they are still overreacting to the attack, so I go to my corner in the office. I boot up to see the Ubuntu logo, which is a huge problem, not for me of course, but for everyone else who can barely work Windows. I barge in on my boss and ask him why the fuck is Ubuntu on the PC's.

He replies, "I looked it up, Linux is not affected by viruses".

What the fuck is wrong with people? After I tell him to revert back to Windows because he's being a fucking retard, he goes ahead to send all of us home.

I can only hope he doesn't install Zorin or Elementary because I will quit.

Why do I do this, it's 05:45 and I'm just about to leave for site it's a 3 hour drive if traffic is kind. By the time I get home it will be 20:30 hours at least. Grr long days

Only possible in germany.

Just why?

Honestly, why can't you just contact support though email?

Almost every company provides telephone numbers to contact their support but almost nobody provides the option to contact their support through email, for me that would a lot more convenient to send email where I can attach logs, screenshots, videos and explain the problem in details rather than explain it through the phone.

Im seriously thinking about Watercooling my Raspberry Pi 3...
Why?
BRCAUSE THIS LIL SHIT RUNS SO FUCKING HOT THAT I CAN MAKE AN EGG ON IT! THATS WHY!

Its 80°C when under little load BUT GOES OVER FUCKING 90°C ON LOAD! AND THIS IS FUCKING DANGEROUS! FUCK!

so back to watercooling...
Its a Stupid idea, I know, but its literally THE ONLY FUCKING WAY TO COOL THIS BASTARD! And trust me I tried Novec (Yes the liquid that evaporates at 60°C...) and SHITS EXPENSIVE!

Windows: restarting in 10 seconds

Me: probably just a bug or something like that *click OK button*

10 seconds later

Me: it's no a bug! IT'S NOT A BUG! let me save my stuff

(I don't now why windows did that it made some kind of update without warning except for the 10 seconds and then I had some problem s like I couldn't connect to a SQL server and the computer was super slow)

You know what’s more annoying than someone downvoting your answer on Stack Overflow without leaving a comment explaining why?

When it’s your own answer to your own question...

C'mon, really?

Okay, I understand that they want to lock down the Chromebooks they send home with us, we don't own them and they have the right to do that. But I'm still annoyed when I find "harmless" stuff is blocked.

They said it themselves that they want us to be able to do basically anything we want web browsing wise on them.

It's not a fun experience to say to your self "hey let's look at the current humble bundles!" just to find that humblebundle.com is blocked for "games". (Which makes sense, but I can't remember any other examples)

Imagine thinking to yourself "I'm going to go to the Os Dev Wiki" and typing that into the Omnibox (tm) and pressing enter, directing you to your favorite search engine duckduckgo, but instead of finding the amazing duckduckgo results page you find the godforsaken securly "THIS PAGE IS BLOCKED" screen.

I can guess why they do that (probably because, to my knowledge, duckduckgo doesn't have any form of "safe-search" feature they can force it to use because they do that) but it's kind of annoying to not be able to use your favorite search engine anymore.

Should I really be getting so annoyed at this? No, because it's not my device, it's theirs and, they have the final say on what goes, but sometimes it really annoys me. I should be, and am, thankful they even let us bring the Chromebooks home, which is pretty cool.

Ugh...

If you want a fun time, just read the reviews on the Securly extension in the chrome web store!

Not really a rant but more of a fact kinda thing. Noticed a post earlier about someone ranting about why they code figured I'd do the same...

I code not because I wanted to for say but because my after my uncle's death I needed something that I could feel in complete control of. Coding gave me that ability to control the computer however I want and tell it to do whatever however. At the same time it taught me so much more about myself and the people around me in the process. Today I don't code because I need to control something m today I do it because I can't live with out. It forces me to think critically of everything and everyone. It forces me to learn something new everyday and every night. It requires me to solve complex problems with limited solutions. It allows me to create solutions when everything else has failed and it gives me a drive to complete things. It's the reason I live technology and it's the reason I have the job I do. It's the reason my boss loves my work and it's the reason other people on my team envy me. Code transformed my life into what it is today. And it will forever be my greatest peice of education.

If macbooks are so shitty, why do every great developer I see owns it ? Even @dfox owns it ..... Why o why !!

Nice to meet you too!

3 weeks.

Am I just stupid? It took me 3 whole weeks to finally come to the realisation today that the Elasticsearch "guide" and Elasticsearch "reference" were different, with different version numbers. I've been ignoring Google search results that say Elasticsearch 2.x for WEEKS and wondering why I couldn't find a solution to simple problems.

Turns out, the current Elasticsearch "guide" is on version 2.x while Elasticsearch itself is on version 6.x.

They even have almost identical URLs that go ../guide/../reference and ../guide/../guide.

WHY? Why would you do that? Am I just stupid? Am I still getting it wrong? What the heck is up with Elasticsearch documentation?

I am starting to understand why ranting about PHP is so popular. I am busy upgrading a site and a stray, random "N" slipped into my code from a misguided phpstorm command, somewhere outside any html to be parsed. Turned out that that broke the rendering of the Google Maps API iframe. Just why.

My companies making me rewrite bootstrap for our own use across our apps 😖😫 why why why.

That frustrating moment when you ask a Yes/No question and you get a full warstory and a conclusion to that story that doesn't answer the question and leaving you wondering why instead.

I just asked permission if I should implement this new feature on Dev/Test environment. Not gonna ask again next time.

Make change
Close Visual Studio for the night
Open Visual Studio
Commit
Close Visual Studio for the night
Open Visual Studio
Sync with Bitbucket
Close Visual Studio for the night

Fucking managers
Now I know why companies with shitty managers don’t grow

Me conversing with my senior as to how to make one of our functions scalable which around 10k devs would be using.

Manager walks in

Manager: how’s function x going

Me: great , will be done soon

Manager: you need to finish it by today

Me: can’t do it , too many sub functions need to be reconfigured( which was his job)

Manager: take *insert some managers asslicker’s name*’s help

Me: okay

We will finish it by today , but everybody know how “robust” the output will be

P.S. I didn’t argue because I’ve done that before and it’s like hitting your head on a wall. If you have read my previous rants, you would know

React-Native documentation, are they serious?

Rant about IT teacher

(This happened a few months ago)

I go to highschool and in ninth grade you learn about Excel and databases in general. In the first half of the year we learned how to use excel and in the second part of the year we learned about SQL databases.
So we learned SQL and how to set up a database using LibreOffice Base. At the end of the year we had to do one final project which was setting up a database and writing some queries.
We had to do it in groups of two and we had to choose for what we wanted to make a database.
We had like 5 minutes time to discuss it in the groups and me and my friend decided to do something like GitHub, so a database with tables for all the users, repositories, etc.
Then we had to tell our teacher what we wanted to do. Others made databases for hospitals, shops, netflix, app stores. The teacher asked the other groups, they told him what they wanted to do and he wrote it down. Here is how it went down with my group:
Teacher: So what do you want to do?
Me: A database for something like GitHub
Teacher: For what?
Me: GitHub
Teacher: what?
Me (very slowly): G I T H U B
Teacher: what is github?
Me: ...
(I was very surprised that he didn't know GitHub)
Me: well, you can upload files and work on them together with other people. There are also things like branches...
Teacher: Ah ok, so a cloud service
(I was done and wanted to end the conversation)
Me: Yes... it's a cloud service...
(Me in my mind: why do i have to be here)

We named our project 'GitGud', a little bit passiv aggresive.

Yeah so apparently my IT teacher doesn't know GitHub, however he installed Ubuntu on some of the school computers so I guess that's nice

We got an A so that's good.

My friend is learning js and today when I saw his code he had his js dir called java. I asked him, why he has it called java and he replied that he cannot think about a short name for javascript 😂😂😂😂

I am really curious... who of you actually uses snapchat and why?
In my opinion it's one of the most useless apps out there and one of the best concepts to share all your private information with other people and of course the developers.
Also I'd like to believe that rather intelligent people don't use it or if they use it then just for the sake of not being excluded. Since this is a community of programmers I'd like to hear your opinions.

Fuck the feelings of powerlessness and helplessness. when a friend comes crying for you for help with their hacked account and you keep asking them about what they did to protect it in the first place and they reply with nothing, no recovery email, no recover phone, no secondary verification, NOTHING. and you can do nothing but stand there and watch them cry while you can literally do nothing because there literally nothing you can do to retrieve their stolen accounts. FUCK BLACK HAT HACKERS.

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From the bottom of my heart I swear the thing that frustrates me the most in this industry is over complicating simple things. Making simple ideas overly convoluted makes me cry.

I mean why have a dedicated Windows server, that you login to via Windows Remote desktop, just to edit a Word document in a bespoke program that is running running Microsoft Word inside it anyway. Why not just just Word? Why spend a year developing such a system for a problem that simply doesn'y exist.

I asked what benefit this has over me just editing a Word file myself on my laptop. In short, their answer was none.

The other apparent benefit to the system was the ability to jump to specific parts of the document. Well after showing them how to do a table of contents, they saw no need for their existing system.

I'm amazed sometimes how simple ides get discussed to death, unnecessary mammoth systems get built, that ultimately solve a problem that does not exist.

[/rant]

Why would anybody do this?
Especially the last point
aaaaaab is already a lot more secure then 1234 but who cares, right?

Would you rather get a sticker for free or help DevRant and buying in there store?

Personally I would rather help

"curl : The response content cannot be parsed because the Internet Explorer engine is not available, or Internet Explorer's first-launch configuration is not complete. Specify the UseBasicParsing parameter and try again."

Why the flying fuck do i have to configure some BS in internet explorer to use curl in Powershell? I thought IE was finaly dying, but nope!

So, I've posted a question on StackOverflow. I was curious about better (in terms of performance and cleaner code) ways to solve a problem. And a fckn dickhead added a comment like this: Why worry about performance?

I am not a math expert but I am almost 100% sure that 617 comes first (this is a bug that happens a lot when searching for top and all)

Third time a photographer has been at the office. devRant.conf opened on the monitor for good measure.

The learning curve between learning syntax to hackerrank/leetcode feels massive

So I had this thought all of a sudden. (Without any drug in my system)

Why are we still developing same old systems, softwares and web applications till now?

Websites, games and creativity involved development are understandable because people have different taste.

But workflow and process are supposed to be precise, standardized and consistent. No?

Is it because businesses are operating in various ways? Then again why?

Shit. I should stop my thinking at this level. 😑

Why on Earth did PHP have a function to create functions?? It's deprecated now, but still, why??? 🤔

Not a rant, but a question.

Why is their so much fear of Google and Microsoft misusing information they collect?

What proof is there of this (provide references and cases, for a proper argument)?

What would you have these companies do to resolve the issues you brought up above?

I'm sorry if I seem ignorant, I'm genuinely unaware of all this. I'm willing to learn provided it's a fair analysis.

Can someone please explain why every forum and tech news source talks about Rust? New database — in Rust. New algorithm — in Rust. New OS — in Rust. I thought everyone was hyping about python these days...

Just received this really weird email. Probably spam, but why even bother when there is no link or attachment? Maybe it is encrypted... 🤔 What do you think? Anyways, the server has SSH enabled anyone care to bruteforce? :^)

Just passed 2 to 3 hours learning how to model a chair when I was almost at the end my pc shutdown randomly, I lost everything... Thank you life.

I never understood why updating iTunes prevents Xcode from running?

Why Xcode needs to be closed to update a music player? Do both rely on same files for reading connected devices?

Windows because I don't know how to use Linux or Mac and without him I can't program shit

By Thor (not the god, the dragon), Belial and Thor (the god, this time)...

Just got the sources for the software that runs on the SDR for my project. I think I just found the mother of all legacy code:
The whole behaviour is described in a single, 4000 lines C file. Most of the code is in a giant switch with cases selected from an enumeration with names that don't match their function. All varnames are overly long, yet hopelessly unhelpful. And why three fuck would you use pointer[0].data instead of (*pointer).data or pointer->data like a sane person would !? pointer isn't even an array, so why would you use []?

Please let this madness stop now! Why is it so difficult to position images in ms word?!?!?

Preface: This is my opinion, not fact. I don’t mean this to offend anyone who uses a specific distro - you likely have your reasons and that’s fair enough, use whichever you like.
However, I’ve watched this mess spiral out of control for the past 15 years and it’s become a joke - the Linux distro shitstorm is getting out of hand now.

We have RHEL, Debian, Arch and Gentoo.
Everything else might as well not exist.

Knoppix - irrelevant now as pretty much all distros can run live.
Mint - 3 versions? Really? Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE? Whats the point?
Ubuntu - Canonical change the core applications every release, never focus on improving a build over updating to the latest 'new' thing, keep trying to write their own versions of everything then abandon them when they realise it's too difficult and have wasted all the time they could have put into furthering other projects.
Trisquel - Ubuntu based, but only free software. Is that not the same as Debian?
ElementaryOS - Ubuntu based but with better graphics. Why is that not standard in all distros?

Oracle Linux - RHEL, but commercially maintained by Oracle. But RHEL is commercially maintained by Red Hat, so what are Oracle actually doing other than desperately trying to come up with an alternative for Solaris that they can brand their own? Oh.... that makes sense.... it's Oracle.....
Scientific Linux - Same sources as RHEL, maintained by another company.

So all these RHEL derivatives are the same but with different package maintainers?

Mandriva - Used to be Mandrake (ANOTHER RHEL version), then after merging and splitting, spawned Magele, PCLinuxOS, and ROSA Linux, none of which I’ve EVER found anyone using…. whats the point? Mandrake was actually decent, but it’s become another MINT.

openSUSE - Used to be pretty good, YaST was a decent installer but now it’s just a mass of pretty graphics and lack of structure.

Arch - Makes sense as a platform, except it has ANOTHER package manager, and ANOTHER ports implementation, but does seem to be pretty stable and has a lot of users who are really happy with it.
So why all the subversions?
Anarchy Linux,
Antergos,
Arch Hurd (honestly, what’s the fucking point???????),
Arch Linux 32 (32bit CPUs only. Again, what’s the point?????),
Arch Linux ARM (Yeah, I see why this exists, the only legitimate case for a derivative so far),
ArchBang,
ArchLabs (as with ArchBang it uses OpenBox, so other than that it’s just there for the sake of it),
Arch XFerience (built for usability, simplicity and stability - because all the others are designed to be pointless, complicated and flaky? Seriously?),
Artix - Arch with with a choice of init systems. Because we need all the init systems, that is the choice that makes Linux wonderful :S,
ArchMerge - Intended to let people learn Arch. Why can’t Arch do that? That’s like creating a language similar to French intended to allow people to learn French,
BBQLinux - Designed for android developers.
BlackArch - For pen testing, makes sense.
Chakra Linux - QT only, using KDE. Makes sense to have just ONE gui toolkit in use, but should this not be the norm?
Condres OS - A fork of Apricity, but with Arch repos, and modified Cinnamon, Mate, Gnome and KDE available. So somebody else has to modify new releases which means this lags behind bleeding edge.
KaOS - QT based Arch…. sounds similar to Chakra…. whats the point?
LinHES - Designed for a home entertainment system. This one makes sense!
MagpieOS - Arch, but aimed at new users and focussed on simplicity. Seems to have been done before.
Manjaro - Focusses on stability and ease of use… Sure I’ve seen that before somewhere….
PacBSD - FreeBSD based on Pacman. NO!!!! Leave BSD WELL clear of this, ‘pkg’ is fine, ‘ports’ is fine, keep FreeBSD AWAY from the mess that is the Linux Distro spawn!!!
Parabola - Linux distro, but using the Linux-Libre kernel, so is basically Arch but won’t work with any network device that uses NDIS Wrapper.

Do we need so many? No. Most of these distros are the product of ego over rational thought.

A group decides it can do it better, tries, and just releases the same version as somebody else with a slight difference to it.
Is ego better than closed source or commercial software? I have no clue.
All I too know is that this has gotten worse and worse, and will probably continue to do so.

If you want to use Arch on a normal PC, then learn Arch.
If you want to use an RPM system, use CentOS or Suse.
For something based on apt (no clue why…), use Debian or ubuntu.

If you want to use a distro that requires NO thought at all, use Mint with Cinnamon.

For everything else, there's Gentoo.

Get a DateTime. Convert to a string. Convert back to a DateTime. Use that DateTime to build a string.

WHY.

(it's red because I refactored it; snipped copied from our version control)

!ran Why cant companies work with employees over skype and other software instead of everybody having to physically go to a workplace?

Wouldn't it be more convinient to just connect over such softwares, and share code over github and stuff?

Or what is the reason that companies want to have their employees in a building?

No workplace = less money spent?

I'm not in a job yet and have no experience out of highschool working else where.
I'm just curious on what your opinions are.

Eval is evil. I heard it often. So apparently, they put it there just merely to test you, whether you are a sinful coder deserving eternal damnation or not...

So, one thing I don't really like from people is sometimes they just believe in things without questioning anything. And worst... sometimes they get offended when some random poor guy ask a sensible question regarding to the belief.

Just because Richard Stallman said vi is evil, then they hate every vim users in the world.

Just because this easy-but-effective solution is not PSR-3 compliant, then they ditch it at all...

Ok, back to the eval-is-evil thing.

Yesterday, I show some part of code using safe-eval npm package to someone. And the reaction is like "yike... it's eval..."

So yes, eval is evil. But only if it's miss-used, just like anything else...

The drawbacks of eval are:

1. Security. Sometimes people miss-use the eval by allowing user's script to be evaluated without double checked. The problem here is not eval-is-evil. However, sometimes your user is. So how about creating powerful ionic-based calculator to evaluate javascript because you are too lazy to create that infix-postfix parser? I don't really like when people argue without argument. Something like "I don't know, but eval is evil and it is". Why? why? and why?....

2. Performance. Eval is slow. Yes it is, because it is running a parser inside a parser. So it is just a mere calculator. And yes, it is slower 100 ms than native program. Problem?

3. Untrace-able error stack. But again, you just use that eval once. And if it is trowing an error, just catch it and let the user know that his input is wrong. Problem?

No, there is no real problem here. It's just eval is evil and it is...

Lol. Had an exam in college a few weeks ago which involved designing a website on expression web. The Dr responsible for the subject dropped my file and gave me a 0 as a grade and said : "well it's not my fault I lost your file." I laughed so hard XD. Still has a 0 though Lmao.

I have to listen to Pandora or something when I program... it's gotta be low volume, and the song can't be too bad or I'll get distracted from my hatred of it, and the song can't be too good because then I'll start singing along. Why am I so prissy about this? It's the only thing I'm prissy about, not like a norm dev… I'll use any editor, I don't care, any OS… but the music gets to me.

Bahh! Composer why are your asking for credentials interactively when I've already exported COMPOSER_AUTH env variable? Also why are you being called still as root even though I have changed to user uid? Composer, why do you make it so difficult to authenticate non-interactively?

Me & Coworker spend a good 10-15 minutes explaining why approach A to a problem is a bad idea and that approach B would better.

Dev Lead says "Just get it done".

Inspiring words as always. So glad we raised this issue up to the person who's supposed to make these kinds of decisions.

Ass.

Is there any reason why people still use Internet Explorer

Fucking Vagrant... I know you prefer a Linux environment but pleeeaaase why does your VM always timeout?!?! Godamnit, it's a bad sign if you get bugs before you even start coding...

Banging my head on my desk because I couldn't figure out why my website was bugging out in mobile mode.....

Come to find out I forgot a closing " ...there's a hour of my life I'll never get back lol

Special thanks to HTML validators lol

Fuck you windows! Why the he'll are you treating alt gr and ctrl + alt the same way!?!?
I want configure a shortcut but now I am sitting there like...

Hey google, stop automatically opening apps after they are updated on my android. It makes me want to kill somebody 😡

So I'm having trouble keeping up with a game I'm working on and im struggling to find a new job, soooooo I decided fuck it and began concepting building a fantasy console with a custom backend language slightly modelled off of Assembly that you would then create a front end of...

Going to build it using GML and then build a GML front language because fuck it, why not!

Can gamedevelopers stop using lua as their freaking scripting language..
Every time I try and figure out how tables work and think I finally get it it throws a big fuck you curve ball.

Oh and then they use json file to store the data of a table except that those json interfaces are complete retards.

If you are going to support json files then why the fuck won't you put in a small fucking inconsecential JS interperter so you can actually find some docs regarding more complex fucking docs then those simple minded t[guildName] = "guild"

Another thing, why the fuck does lua not use {} like every other langauge. I use those curly brackets to figure out where shit start and ends half the freaking time.

Fuck this I'm out for today...
And a big fuck you with both middle fingers to any dev that thinks lua is a great scripting language for plugins.

Small rant. Why does clicking create a new event in Google calendars???? I am just trying to make it the active window, now I have to actually touch the keyboard to stop the madness!!

Why is it accepted that cs people just have poor hygiene. If I walk into a room and almost get floored by the stench if BO it doesn't make it acceptable to say "you're not used to it? It's that cs smell, man." like, ok. that dude should still go fucking shower.

Literally the entire lab was just rank from one guy, and the room is at least 30X100

Why the fuck...!

Wrote code to import a spreadsheet... A "class code" field is in there to define the the product category... But when no products matching I find that the number is the result of a concatenation, one half of which is not in this file...

Just... Why... ?!?!?!

It looks like Windows almost stopped me from exiting the mall. I had to call customer care to save me from situation. The toll station froze on me. Why Windows? Why?

Helped a colleague today with finding the reason why everything was lowercase after a release. Turns out another colleague made a SQL upgrade script two months ago the did REPLACE(lower(value)... Found it in 10 minutes, saved a lot of time on debugging and still got scolded for working to long on another ticket...

Google delays launch of Lenovo Phab2 pro by a month.. and launches Pixel..

maybe because nobody would buy Pixel if both were launched together..

(Coz Phab2 has Tango and thus the first phone that will actually support AR!)

we are using Bitbucket instead of Github. it's entirely the same. same concept. we even use Git syntax to commit and push and pull and stuff! i dont get why people would recreate git and have exactly the same features 😒

Okay soooo.... I have this laptop that I use a little less often but is bugging me about. So WINDOWS just decides to RAMP UP THE HARD DRIVE TO ALL HELL WHENEVER I NEED TO USE IT.

I have a few options:
- Replace the 1TB 5400RPM with a 120GB SSD and do Linux
- Replace the 1TB with the 120GB and do a fresh install of Windows
- Replace Windows with Linux, keeping the 1TB
- or reinstall Windows

Which do you suggest and why?

Why am I downloading Windows 10? Someone tell me why the fuck I am downloading Windows 10.

Oh god why!?

Somehow I decided that it would be nice to have a proper spell&grammar checker in VS Code for me and my friends to write our reports in Latex with.

Decided I wanted multiple language support, so I turned to language tool.

GOD is this thing slow as a very unmotivated snail!

3s to process 9 phrases!? And then add one second to pack the results in a JSON string!? An option that I'm still very grateful exists, but why the fuck would you disallow line-by-line processing, which you expressly recommend for IDEs, and which cuts processing time by 30%, when JSON output is asked!?

Well, serves me right for thinking for even a second that a Java program could have decent performance...

This whole thing is starting to look like it's not gonna be nearly as fun ss I anticipated it to be.

But why can’t Android Studio work out of the box?
I want to develop, Not mixture with gradle and stuff...
Time for a Power Nap.

MySQL. Relations. Every relation has an id for the FK.
Except one table. Why??

"BECAUSE I LIKE TO SEE THE INFO INSTEAD OF 73"

he is boss. He takes decisions.

WHY THE FUCK DOES RUNKIT RETURN A SHORTENED STRING?!?!? I SPENT 3 FUCKING DAYS DEBUGGING BECAUSE 2 VALUES WERENT THE SAME.

AAAAA

Why the hell did someone remove the wacom kernel module in android since 4.x? It wasn't hurting any body and instead gave people the ability to connect their wacom tablets to USB OTG compatible devices. As a result we have few apps that have wacom support in play store and shitty reputation that the rotten apple is better for all things media.

And for me it means I have to:
* Figure out a way to root my device
* locate correct version and configuration of currently running kernel.
* set up cross compilation toolchain
* build the kernel module
* transfer it to the device
* insmod it manually
* say a few prayers

.... All I wanted to do was paint 😢

Ok so there are a lot of things out there like #WhyIUseLinux, well as a Linux lover that is stuck using windows, I say we start a 'why I use windows' discussion.

For me, I'm stuck on windows simply because the game development engine I use is only on windows and mac and doesn't seem to play nicrly when run on a VM, if the software was released on Linux I would swap over in a heart beat!