I bought a cheap vserver and I set up apache, MySQL etc. at the moment. Which MySQL version is the best currently? I am used to 5.5 but if I see it correctly, there is already MySQL 8 out. Are there any major differences?

My University distributes all worksheets over an online system. To access the files one has to download them each time first. So to get rid of all this annoying clicking in the browser, I just programmed a service, which logs onto the website ,crawls trough every folder, searches for new files and downloads them if they do not exist on my computer. Kind of proud as this is pretty much the first really useful program I developed lol

My dad said, every real software engineer uses Linux. What's your opinion?

I just reinstalled DevRant after two years. Is it stilla thing to get a ball, shirt or sticker once your rant gets 100 Upvotes?

me, myself and I

class day {
public void standup(Coffee cof) {
Human.drink(conf);
}
public void school() {
boring = true;
}
public void code(Coffee cof) {
turnCoffeeIntoCode(cof)
}
public void repeat() {
standup(new Coffee());
school();
code(new Coffee());
}
}