About to come up with an idea for an app and code it in a few hours before the deadline to a competition I forgot about let's go lol

I talk to the guys at work lol

Anyone else seeing undefined in the tags for many rants? 🤔

Full time internship started, and I'm a week through. It's my first time in the industry and it's awesome!

Going a bit slow right now but I'm looking forwards to the future.

I didn't expect this, but the hardest thing so far has been getting used to the existing codebase.

Also, for anyone going into the industry, be humble about what you don't know. Ask lots of questions.

So, my first internship starts in a couple days. Very excited, anyone have any tips?

Want to learn C but have barely any time for the foreseeable future :(

Got the genius idea of multiplayer tic tac toe just before spring break. One week later, back in school and I have multiplayer tic tac toe written in Java. The only way that the school can block it is by blocking the port, but then I'll just change it until there are no more lol

give me suggestions on what to make next, this is fun

Was about 13-14 years old, on my first laptop, a HP Pavilion G6. I had Ubuntu on it, and tried to write an iso to a USB with dd. Didn't work, so I forgot about it for up to maybe a week, and was playing Minecraft one day when my laptop froze and nothing was responding, so I did a hard reboot.

No operating systems found.

Many tears were shed that day.

Took me maybe 6 months to realize that the "botched" dd probably caused the wipe.
Still don't know why my computer was still running... If anyone thinks that the dd didn't cause it I'm curious what your theory is.

hmmmmmmmmmm

Gonna have to be instrumental music, be it movie soundtracks(Star Wars <3) or whatever randy dandy music I have, like Sabaton.

Also my never ending promise to myself to finally install a new Linux distro on my main machine with KDE Plasma.. dat stuff gooooood

Just finished my Arch install on a 2012-13 MacBook Pro. Loving it so far.

Why do developers act like it's such a travesty when a non-techie says something wrong or ignorant about tech? It's not like we study computers and programming for a career and therefore know a lot more or anything...
Plus, it's not the non-techie's fault that the schools don't teach computer schools that well.

So, I've gotten to that point where I am thinking about if/where to go to college, and I'm not sure where to look.

Any suggestions of colleges or reliable CS rankings?

I installed arch on a 2012 MacBook pro today, that was fun, learned a lot more about Linux. Now, I don't know which DE to use.
I would use KDE, but last time I used it(recently) it reset the desktop configuration upon every boot, wiping panels and stuff. I'm sick of GNOME and Cinnamon, and XFCE is eh. Maybe i3?
Leave suggestions!

Was at school the other day and met a dude who was told by an acquaintance that I'm a "computer guy".

Dude comes up to me and jokes that the acquaintance was spreading rumors about me being a programmer. I was a bit confused and tell him that I do in fact program, and then he asks me what I've done, to which I explain what languages I've dealt with.

Next thing he asks me: "Have you made an OS?"

BREH

He tells me about how he went through Linux From Scratch. I have no idea how in-depth that book goes, if someone who has read it could enlighten me that'd be nice.

Acquaintance mentions that I won an app contest. (At this point, I'm internally telling acquaintance to shut his face.) I explain what I made(an Android app that helps sort Lego pieces) and he promptly tells me that I just used an API and barely wrote any code.

After (hopefully calmly) going back and forth with him, I just say "So I write bad code. What's it matter to you?" He stopped talking right there.

He apologized later. Yeah right, I'm sure you're sorry.

Playing lego.com games on my family's PowerBook G4, if my memory serves me correctly. I started programming with a Lego robotics kit.

lol every time I look at actively maintained code on GitHub

Thing is, there'll always be things I don't know. One needs to learn that. However, it's not an excuse to stop learning, so just keep learning every day and be confident in what you know

I'm still in high school, but want to have a good resume going. What format do you use for your internship? I have a website, I'm just not sure how to present my skills.

Could be a stupid question, but I'm asking anyway. If I have a Java application, it's legal for me to package dependencies in it's jar, right? (In this case GSON)

Quick question on Android development. Is it good practice to access UI elements from code, i.e R.id.example? Or is there something similar to WPF's data binding?

taught myself how to use LINQ the other day

wow it's great

dad please

!rant

I got Clean Code for Christmas, it is such a good book. I can't recommend it more.

when you remember there was an app contest you were gonna enter, quickly write an app in the last 2 weeks, and win

o h n o

us government pls

net neutrality

we need it

kthxbye

I've seen a bunch of people criticizing the people who repeatedly criticize/hate windows.

Lemme stop you right there.

Now, hating on something just because it IS that something is stupid, I'll grant you that much. But when windows does stupid shit, I am going to complain about said stupid shit.

Deal with it.

I'm learning C#, and the whole properties thing with get; and set; is weirding me out... So many unnecessary mistakes could be made by accidentally using = instead of ==...

I was going to install my SSD in my desktop, but I could also put it in one of my laptops. I feel like, since my desktop is faster anyway, it might be worth it to install it in a laptop so I can program faster while not at home.
What do you people think? If I do the laptop, should I do my Dell Inspiron 15 3542 or my 2008 macbook pro?

Windows is stupid

My desktop is in my room, and consistently every night at around 11 to 12 it wakes up from sleep, consequently waking me up. I did some troubleshooting and apparently it's doing "automatic maintenance"? I couldn't find a way to turn it off.

If any other devs have had this problem, please help, I'm getting sick of this.

Updated windows 10, was a feature update or something

Reboot and can't boot into Debian, grub error

oopsies