This made my Day...

Startup Quote...

I love my new old-fashioned typewriter like keyboard! Works like a charm and makes fantastic noise each time I press a letter.

Wear headphones at home office. Not because I can't play it out loud, but when you go around in Iron Maiden shirts the wife gives you a hard time about listening to J-pop.

I definitely need one of these!

A deadlock a day, keeps the application away. Heard it in the office today.

Don't forget the WHERE in the DELETE FROM.

Under promise over deliver

Simple way of storing keys.

Just started a Coursera Machine Learning course. Suddenly I feel like a 20 years old guy going at university. Better than feeling like a 44 years old adult working on shitty things like every day...

Are you ready to get my up vote
Yes I'm ready to get your up vote

Programmers of today are like the monks of the middle ages. We use a language that people don't understand, we spend all our time sitting in a room reading, and people constantly ask us for advice but never really listens to the answer.

Wise words to live by...

That. Simple.

I prefer hard rock myself!

A group of wolves is called a pack.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A group of developers is called a merge conflict. :|

Totally trying it out next time

I just can't shake this image with all the Allo posts today.

Microservices.
(by @kelseyhightower on Twitter)

"Cannot read property length of undefined..."

That's not what your mom said last night.

A group of wolves is called a pack.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A group of developers is called a merge conflict.

My sneaking suspicion when I test code.

#oopsecurity

If I learned every spoken and dead language ever created in human history, I still wouldn't have enough swear words to describe how much I loathe SharePoint.

hope this isnt a repeat. have a great weekend guys!!!!!

So I'm a entry level female Developer and I started a contract to hire position in July. Its my first job as a developer and I love almost everything about it. Except this..., there is a Senior Female Developer on my team who hates me and isn't shy about it. She goes for the throat man! She magnifies any mistake I make, hell she calls me out on things that people would consider positive. In sprint planning this week she got mad at me for pulling tasks from the backlog after finishing mine early. I've tried to do everything I could to make her like me. I patiently listen when she goes on and on about her damn cats, kids, sports, ah everything, and she is a non stop talker.

Her main problem with me, so she tells the head of engineering, is that I bug her too much. I almost laughed when I heard this was her main issue with me! Sure, I asked her the normal amount of newbie questions but it's not like I don't know how to read code or google! In fact I started avoiding talking to her about a month ago because she was so rude to me. Now getting hired on full time comes down to whether or not she can stand me still if I am working on another team. I'm so frustrated because it's impossible to prove my worth to this company with this crazy lady making me look bad. I have no problems with anyone else at work. In fact a lot of us have become good friends. No one understands why she hates me so much. It feels like middle school all over again.

On top of that there is an even newer hire who she is supposed to help bring on to the team, but because of her horrible management skills, I have become his defecto mentor for learning the project, as well as the technologies we use. The stress of being in an uncertain contract to hire position + tyrant coworker + helping the new guy + still learning and having my own work to do has been overwhelming! I don't know what to do other than hope that she doesn't try to sabotage me moving to a new team.

It was around 14:55, I had no energy, and was ready to call it a day, but then I messaged my boss on slack, "Ballmer Peak". He comes back 5 mins later and my desk looked like it this.

Person: What do you do for a living?

Programmer: I'm an etymologist

Person: What does that mean?

Programmer: I work with bugs

Me: 1 is something, 0 is nothing, NULL is the absence of things
JuniorDev: wut
Me: You've got pizza in a box, that's 1. If there's no pizza in the box, that's 0. If there's no pizza and no box, that's NULL.
JuniorDev: OOH so there's no object to reference if I ask for a slice!
Me: *small tear*

Always explain things in terms of pizza. Always.

"I usually just stop being stuck and be awesome instead. "

And that kids, is how I met your mother.

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