Well my home office is a proper mess currently. It isn't so much an office as a corner desk in the child's nursery, but house hunting went on hold.

It features the likes of my devrant ducky, crazy aarons thinking putty, a stuffed gnu, and a galileo thermometer among other paraphernalia; also a plastic goat that screams when I push down on it. That last one is a huge help to me these last few weeks.

Mark.

Mark was a support guy who could have been replaced by a robot. Nearly every support request that came in, whether it made sense or not, had a reply saying:

"Thank you for your query, I will escalate with the development team"

...and then I would have a message saying:

"Hi Almond urgent issue case xxx - I think you need to PLEASE CHECK LOGS" (yes, with that capitalisation.)

I'd then look at the case, take 10 seconds to work out the customer had done something stupid when calling our API (often forgetting their authentication details, despite a clear message telling them as such) and tell Mark what the issue was, and how to find it for himself next time. I'd then usually get:

"Thank you but PLEASE CHECK LOGS to see if there is any more info we can provide to customer"

...there would be more back and forth, and then eventually something like the following would reach the customer...

"Very sorry the development team have a major issue they will fix very soon but in the meantime a workaround is (instructions for using authentication details)"

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

gives root permissions to the real world.

Michael Sinz: “Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.”

My job is so f**king unbelievable.

I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless.
The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on make-up.
She is extremely self-centred and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself.
She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet.
Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10.
I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts.
I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead.
In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work.
He probably hasn't been sober any time in the last ten years, and he's only 22.
He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big f**king dog to work.
Every f**king day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke.
Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing.
Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonald's and Burger King, every single f**king day.

Anyway, I drive these dicks around in my van and we solve mysteries and s**t.

Commented all of my code. More than 1000 lines, teacher didn't read it....

:D:D:D

I just saw this on the web with the caption "Just HTML things"..
How can I survive seeing this?

Really Microsoft??? Ever heard of clickable links?

When my code gets past testing first time

The way customers treat me when I'm on site

sometimes I feel there must be a bookmark or favorite feature in devRant to save all those awesome rants

When you have one problem and you decide to use regular expressions...

You need to know this: you have two problems now.

Clever 😀

Lets meet and chill ;)

Everyone with 3+ monitors makin me feel inadequate.

If you're not a programmer, don't get a tattoo with code in it...

Legendary champion...

["hip","hip"]

(hip hip array!)

Devrant is the only social platform made to recognise the world's hidden heroes, us.

When you start reading someone else's code and all you do is properly indent for the first 30 mins so you can actually read it.

College projects, they teach you to write Hello world in different languages for 4 years and they want you to develop big sites like Facebook in a month.

Found an answer on Quora discouraging to learn Javascript because "it's not as important as php". It was a question about frontend development. Soooo 2000

Folks, please:
If you grab pics or comic strips to post them here, include at least the link where you've found it/taken from.

Programming python requires to have a snake as a pet.

Why I joined devRant

Wrote my first real node.js application today.
Expect to wake up with a beard tomorrow morning...

when I explain devrant to people..I use the term group therapy 😜

So, I found this amazing app devRant...

After 2 days... Fuck devRant, devil made me miss deadlines...

The more I C, the less I see

I've been writing Java the last few days. Really makes me remember why I enjoy writing objective c / swift so much. It's not necessarily the crazy syntax of objective c. It's the conventions behind the languages. It's very easy to make your code read like prose. Which when you become used to this it's very hard to jump back into spaghetti code with abbreviated variable names and such.