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A few days ago a friend of mine rang me up complaining about internet issues with his computer. As usual I did the "is it plugged in, turn it off then on again" sort of thing to waste time while my pasta was cooking. After a while he asked if I had another bogus solution, so I suggested flushing his toilet.

He runs off, I hear the flush, comes back and viola - it fucking worked.

The point of this is: if it don't work, flush the toilet. You're welcome, tech support out ✌️

Surely this post has nothing to do with a certain vulnerability found recently, would it?!

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I've been thinking about something I saw a while ago, but I can't remember the name so I came to this marvellous place to ask: what do you call live code editing?

E.g. When you're running your program and can change the code on the fly without restarting your program. I'm sure this is application-specific, but I've seen it done with the godly Java.

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It's amusing seeing something new on r/ProgrammerHumor and a few hours later seeing the same thing posted to devRant. Almost like there's a bot with a 2 hour delay posting to devRant.

I had a great dream last night of finally finishing a project I've been working on for too long and pushing to prod. I awoke to find magic doesn't exist and I still have to complete it. Saddest morning in a while.

Not like other frameworks.

Edge uses less battery.

I drink enough water to be hydrated, throw on some random rock playlist or System of A Down album & I'm in the mood.

At least it isn't "designerRant".
Still love devRant, even if that one banner looks like my experiments in CSS.

!isNotRant(this);

I'm an avid user of Snapchat and have used it for quite a while, but there's always been something that pisses me off.

When an app gets an update, I'm quick to check the changelog and see what's now and what's been fixed. That's my little snippet of information I like to know on a release. And then there's Snapchat.

They put fuck all in their changelogs. By fuck all I don't mean a little bit of information, I mean they don't list anything. They, instead, lost features from their last major release which could've been 10 or so releases back. Even Twitter's "Fixed some bugs" is more informative than their bs.

So I ended up writing a well worded and surprisingly clean message in their feedback section about this, but I'm not expecting much. In short I said "You changelogs are crap, you need to put more into them to show a bit more respect, showing stuff from a few releases ago isn't helpful" and my favourite "if you can't do it in the team that releases, get the primary devs to write the changelogs for you".

I'm saying this here to see if anyone agrees with my opinion. If you're going to release an update, you really need to tell us what's updated.

Thoughts?

I'm finally happy that my carrier has got the GB to MB conversion right. 1gb != 1000mb

I love going to random websites only to see a "____ would like to send you notifications".

Sure, why wouldn't I?! It's not like I'm only gonna be here once.

When you commit a more readable README on GitHub to a non native English speaker sends you an email a day later asking for help why his self-signed certificate isn't trusted by his browser or his other computers.

The project he's working on is to sniff Wi-Fi packets that are encrypted through a MiTM attack. I've now stopped following this project and moved on.

Has anyone else had any stupid questions from debs which were about the key purpose of their project and how to go about it?

Something along the lines of the Freenet project (I think it was called). That thing has always interested me - especially the privacy and decentralised structure of the concept. I'd make it a world wide thing and get it to every country in every place I could.

I saw something like this not too long ago and though it was faked. Now I'm stumped.

I was wondering why all images on a rant were a grey ghost silhouette until I stumbled upon another rant with a different aspect ratio image. It's not a ghost, just a fuck up of images.

You had me spooked there devRant.

When you're at a friend's house and they say they just changed their Wi-Fi password to 192837465. She was confused why I was laughing.

My favourite part is the community. From places like devRant to people commenting on GitHub projects and pitching in where they want to. It's like a family, somewhat.

Git push is now followed with a tab of GitHub.audio and waiting to see it show up and ping. I'm lonely.

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Moving from Eclipse to IntelliJ. Looks good so far with the dark theme, but I miss the hands-on feel of Eclipse. Which do y'all prefer for Java?

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If anyone used (or still uses) REBOL 2, I found a lovely open source version that is actively maintained called red. Go check it out, I love the REBOL 2 like syntax. Apparently it's 90% compatible with REBOL 2 code so I'd consider porting when it's further on in its life.

That's my contribution for the month.

I had a friend who wanted to make a social network and Steam-like gaming platform with "near impenetrable" security in around 2 months from scratch. He still wants to do it. Maybe he should think.

Now what to do with these...

We'll see.

Backstory: my father used to work in software development and IT support in companies with medium to large sized networks. I decided to catch up with him a few weeks ago and he asked me thus almighty question

"So if I installed another router in our house, does that mean I can double the amount of traffic going from my computer to the fibre modem?"

All respect has been lost, I was ashamed.

Friend: "You should come with us out for breakfast"
Me: "But if I leave it to compile and it fails, who would be here to fix it?"
This is why I lack friends.

It's my birthday and I just got enough upvotes for some stickers.

We need rubber ducks now devRant.

Oh boy do I hate when news stations say that Apple is introducing new emojis in their next update. R.I.P. Unicode Consortium.

Wanting to animate an arrow turning.
Has jQuery and thinks of. animate().
Spends 2 hours wondering why it won't rotate.
Reads in smallprint "jQuery doesn't support CSS3 animations."
There goes the time I didn't have -_-

Going through my git commits and wondering why I would just commit every file under the same commit. More often than not they had nothing to do with eachother 😐