@jerjer hey, that's why I'm a dev and not a network or server guy. Cable mess is never my problem.

I'll stick with Windows, especially now that I can have (mostly) both worlds with Bash on Windows. I'm 10 times more productive on Win than anything I've ever done on Linux.

Angular is the Amtrak of JavaScript frameworks

Estimates must always match the value that the boss has already decided will be in the budget before they even asked you for estimates and it's too late, the business team has already approved his estimate and now you're stuck fulfilling their estimate.

Looks like almost every server closet I've ever seen.

@franga2000 the fact it was originally PHP only compounds the WTF

Except the ones who failed to plan are the idiots on the business side who hold your budget in a death grip, thereby ensuring their problems always become your problems.

I remember the days on my Commodore programming games with a crapton of peeks and pokes. Ah, the good old days. I don't miss it one bit

If you'd wanted us to use the UK versions, you shoulda won the wars. Lol

What is that strange substance laying on your keyboard? And the even stranger, long cylindrical object on top of it? It looks like a very odd stylus.

All those alarms are turned off. That's not gonna wake up anyone.

You are awesome for that!

"we're looking for someone with 10 years of angular and React experience, who is also a junior level developer and has hands on experience with Java, C#, HTML, C++, COBOL, and AS400, who can write an iAndroid app for us to sell on our WordPress site and be done in 3 months. Pay is 12.50/hr with no benefits and you need to start last Tuesday."

WordPress does make a lot of things easy. Like adding critical bugs that are a pain in the ass to track down and debug.

@Stampeder lol. W3 is not a source, its a travesty of existence that teaches the wrong way to do things far more often than the right way.

Don't bother. No one reads them. I'm a manager and I have hired numerous people over the years. I have never once read a cover letter. I rip them off and toss them and keep only the CV. All the other managers I know do the same.

If you use w3schools, you are not a developer. That's the worst site on the web to learn anything. Its wrong so, so often.

@joehop67 because at that point you no longer have control of your code, nor can you control very well what they do with that code. That's fine for open source, but if your goal is making money, it's a bad idea because you've lost control of your source of income. While the client may not have ill intentions, you can't trust that when your livelihood is on the line.

Been there

Tell them they can buy the company to get the source, or license it to them at an obscene cost along with very strict licensing restrictions. Buy never, ever, ever give away source code to clients.

And before you even considering licensing, make sure you have stored a copy with an independent code repository so you can prove original authorship of things go bad

That is brilliant. I've got to try that.

@spl0 I also started on Sinclair. My first two computers were a Sinclair ZX81 and a Timex Sinclair 2068. I'm fucking old.

Clearly a fictional story of ever I've heard one.

And knowing is half the battle. Yo, joe!

The light bulb never gets changed because the PM constantly asks for status reports, the manager gives the dev 20 other light bulbs to change and constant changes from the client means by the time it's done, the light bulb is now an elephant.

@altermind yeah, i'm getting really tired of people begging for likes. I'm gonna start downvoting every post I see that's nothing but begging for likes.

If I ain't cussin, I ain't coding!

@deadpool88 the WordPress industry is built around this approach.

Now I want one of my own

Btw, the measurement is the number of employees who have "contributed to open source projects". So it's not just their projects, most of which they've added have a fairly permissive license. But its contributions to all GitHub projects.

Here's a link to the article written by GitHub:

https://octoverse.github.com/