In case you thought Google didn't know what you spend your money on.

https://myaccount.google.com/purcha...

!rant

Now that I make decent money, I've started donating to non-profit tech foundations/companies. So far VideoLAN(the guys who make VLC) and WikiMedia done.

What else would you suggest? Thanks :)

When that corner case hits

I hear so many rants/jokes about making releases on Friday evenings. But my new team makes almost all releases on Friday evenings 😶😶

IntelliJ sounds like Taylor Swift

This might be relevant

When your friends know what to gift you

Needed to display two strings on separate lines. Instead of creating 2 views and setting their data, I concatenated the strings with "\n" in between and displayed it in one text view

Another absurd job requirement

Got a job as an Android Developer 🎉🎉🎉

DevRant is such a small world. I posted a story about someone I know in real life and she posted a rant about me too.

And it's good to be back here.

Since I see may rants(including mine) about non descriptive commit messages, here's something people can follow
https://udacity.github.io/git-style...

You don't need to exactly follow this but you get a good idea.

I personally follow something like this and it has helped me understand my old commits a lot.

Thoughts?

New job

Week 3: We might assign you to a new Java we might be creating

Week 5: So you might be working with the other team on an webapp.
That team has taken 2 weeks to decide the tech stack to use for the webapp and still hasn't decided.

Week 7: So we have only one role available right now and that's production support.

*Insert ultra rage face*

Now that I've joined a proper full time "software engineering" job, I guess it's time to get back to ranting.

It's been a month and a half since I've joined here and they have no work for me. And the fact that I've been given a Windows system with restricted access makes it worse

So I received an email from IEEE with my account credentials in plaintext and properly labelled as username and password.

I just realized DuckDuckGo has a dark mode. My life has never been more complete

git commit -m "fix"

When you know you need sleep

> finds files called "?" and "?.pub" in home directory. Not sure how they ended up there.
> tries deleting files
> rm ?*
> hits enter and realizes the disaster the very next moment
> cries in corner

Convincing my parents that I'm doing something useful on my computer and that it can also help me get a job

Changed my username to something other than my real name.
Realized my GitHub and website have my real name anyway.

🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

So I started getting email notifications telling me about transactions made using my credit card. But I DON'T have a credit card in the first place.

Instead of trying to call customer care and pressing an endless array of buttons, I drive to the bank. I tell them the situation and they check every database they have but they couldn't find any trace of a card connected to my account. Turns out their database somehow had cross-links in their database.
How does the one of the biggest banks in the country possibly have such an issue. Worst part is that it's been a day and they still haven't fixed it -_-

For a person like me who makes a lot of typos, being able to view the password while typing is a boon. But I was a bit disappointed by the absence of a view in Android that could handle it out of the box. So I created my own library to handle the same.
Minimal configuration and you could choose the toggle image and the tint of the view. Interesting part is that even though Google has introduced this feature in their design support library, I still have a few users.
My first open source release and it got retweeted by multiple blog handles. 90+ stars feels like an achievement. The best part is that it got me noticed by a recruiter from a big startup here.

Here's the library
https://github.com/subhrajyotisen/...

I attempted an online test for a Java Developer role at a pretty big company.
The test had a JavaScript question.

🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Just to clarify, the job description had no mention of JS

I start at my first tech internship today. Time for some fresh rants?

When you work on something for few hours and then write a script to recursively replace strings in your project but forget to take into account the git index and end up corrupting it 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

I know I should have pushed commits in between. Lesson learnt

Does blogging count?

When Google messes up while creating a Google Form.

This is from the feedback form for a Google event

Love it when this happens

With everyone praising the new Firefox, it feels good to have contributed to it in some small way :)