Tldr: got trolled really hard in a meeting yesterday

So currently, our website has some control elements which are ambiguous to texts posted by users. So I was tasked wi... [read more]

Nice new scrollbars feature Spotify, but

1. This song isn't 05:34 minutes long
2. That position hardly seems like 05:01/05:34
3. The point is stuck at 05:01 while the song is playing

When you develop you cat scratcher with electron

Appropriate for all ages

Dynamic programming languages be like

What I imagine when I run
"sudo apt install texlive-full"
on my old, shitty laptop...

Hello, I'm a QA post. Please give me 4,294,967,295 ++s so I can rule out integer overflow.

Refactoring is the revelation that the name "foobar" is pretty dumb and you should rename the function to "sine".

This customer knows Latin :O

The rainbow scale is the comic sans of data visualization.

He's making a list 🌲

He's checking it twice 🎅

He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice 🎁

Santa Claus is in contravention of article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

Does anybody have an idea how the height of the scrollbar of the devRant app is determined? It changes while scrolling, and I have not figured out yet why.

I like the new devRant penguin pet, but there's a big problem: it's neither free nor open source.

Ok, so I'm a student and in my free time, I mostly write a bit of python, C++ and a bit Haskell for fun...

I wanted to try out Android development now...

HOLY FUCKETY FUCK, THIS SHIT TAKES TIME!

most of the time, I get an idea, open vscode and start typing (maybe install some modules for like 10 minutes), not with this: Android studio took hours to download with all the needed SDKs and libraries, then I created a new empty(!) Activity, then fucking Gradle needs hours to get it fucking ready... On a fucking XPS 13 9370!

How do you guys cope with that waiting, does it scale that way to bigger projects?
I would call myself rather patient, but if I have an idea, I don't want to set up the most basic environment for 3 hours...

Man that shit is bulky...

Popularity of programming languages according to the DRRDSI (DevRant Rubber Duck Selling Index):

1. JS
2. Java
3. Python
4. C#
5. PHP
6. C++
7. Ruby
8. SQL
9. Swift

The 2 kinds of people...

Spotted this insecure motorbike

Almost, Google Lens... Almost...

My dilemma: I want to tell everyone of my dev friends and colleagues of devRant, but then they'll see me ranting about them...

...imma tell ya a story

Vacation in Delphi

Prolog:
After a basic cup of java, I wanted to go to the c and meet Ada, who cured her common lisp with a batch of elixir. On the way, I had a swift Smalltalk with Pascal, who has a brainfuck, because he is a wyvern enthusiast.

I also found a shell with a perl in it, but it had a scratch. This reminded me of my friend Ruby, who has a pet python and loved a good scheme à Shakespeare.

I then started my laptop, which already collected rust on its logo of a maple, and browsed the web for groovy songs. I found a song by Julia, performed in a very high octave in F#.

New paradigm for assembly programming: WYSWNW - what you see will not work

This morning, my breakfast egg was RAW. But I waited a bit, and the issue was resolved.

Let's create mentally what should never be, something with so ridiculously bad performance, even the devil wouldn't let someone use it.

My idea: a JVM emulator written in JavaScript.

What can you come up with?

This was true with the ancient IBM 6150/6151!

When you looked at the registers of the CPU with their debugger, all uninitialized registers had the hexcode 0xdeadbeef!

So I "grade" homework for programming 1 students...
Task was to produce an output like:
1
1 2
1 2 3
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4 5

...and this was committed!
I really had to hold back laughter...
This looks purposefully obfuscated...

You know you're a programmer when you type git instead of gut (good in German) and autocorrect thinks it's ok...

Here's a fantastic video for all you deep learning enthusiasts:

https://youtu.be/R9c-_neaxeU

Matt Parker shows how a pile of matchboxes can actually learn to "play" tic tac toe!

Python is so ridiculously easy and fast to write, I'm just waiting for the release where you just say:

def main():
make_program("RegExParser", "fast", "fancy")

And that's it...

Boss: we need high precision volume control
Me: say no more...