Hello Friends!
It's my first rant to this community.
Thought I should post something!

Still working on a new Project!

Mainly a story with some ranting sprinkled on top :)

My grandma used to refuse to turn her PC off because ONE SINGLE WINDOWS 8.1 UPDATE like 2 years ago made it so that Windows would turn the PC on by itself, nevermind it was fixed in the next update, she would simply refuse to try to turn the PC off from that point on... I never looked at the uptime but the PC was sitting on a carpet and all the fans were struggling to keep spinning, so much dust! When I asked her why it's so dusty all around the PC (the table that the PC was under was covered in a really thick layer of dust) she replied that the chambermaid comes every Wednesday to clean up the whole flat so she has no idea. I set up a camera that was recording the whole room so I could see what was going on... sure enough the chambermaid avoided anything that looked like it could have some ICs in it with a distance of at least 2 meters... When I showed the video to my grandma she was like: Yes, she is scared of electronics...
Seriously fuck me... Allright, I cleaned the whole table, carpet and the inside of PC, everything ran so quietly that I wasn't sure if I plugged the fans in.
Anyway after this I had to record the PC one whole night so I could prove to my grandma that it would not turn on by itself and she can in fact turn it off.
Fuck me... what a bad week that was...

PS: Yes, my stories do not have a point :)

"Never trust a user or client, when dealing with 'bugs', always try to reproduce."

very useful advice from an old colleague

How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Not a single one, its a hardware problem!

po: The Ultimate Local Particle Experience for Linux and macOS - https://po-util.com [more details]

Let's have a poll here. What do you use?

1.PC
2.Mac
3.Linux

Is the Java programming language 100% object oriented?

Hire me !

I'm not always right, but when I am... I'm right!

I was attending a client demo meeting and all of a sudden a tone comes up from behind. And it's Clash of clans.

Coc kills boredom

Dad calls:
D: Hai, so, um, my pc's not booting up.
Me: So?
D: What do I do now?
M: You tried fixin' it?
D: That's why I'm calling you.
M: I'm 400km away from you. Does it do anything by pressing a power-on button?
D: No. But I touched it, it's really hot.
M: When was the last time you cleaned that shit up?
D: I have to clean it?
*PC is located at dusty environment at work. 5 years old and is being turned on 6 days a week*

Clean. Your. Pc.
Oh, and yeah, it overheated, burned the mbo, power suply, and cpu cooler stopped spinning.
It's like Satan threw a curse on a pc, and took a piss on it.
The best part? He's mad because I "never help him nor have time when he needs something to be fixed".
He can fix the PC in a pc shop that is across the street.

So, you doin' any better this week?

!rant: quick question re web app

Should I separate the admin side from user side?
(2 folders) or include both sides in one project(1 folder)?

!rant

Whenever I open someone elses code, I do a project wide search for "FUCK".

Found many of these:

die("FUCK")
// fuck this
// #todo FUCK

Works on github as well. 😂🤣

A nerd love story

Average Joe:
1.searches how to save money for child college education.
2. Creates a bank account and starts to save , small amount of money from his income.
3. After 18 years, after all the hardwork finally pays the tuition fees to his child.

Dev:
1. Creates a website"Child Savings 101"
2. Monetize it
3. After 18 years, pays the tuition fees.

I bought 4 of them to introduce Dev rant to my three collegues (one is for myself of course). Hopefully we can welcome them soon here.

So today I started looking at an old project (site/api tester) I backlogged due to various blockers.

I started remembering things and after setting up the testing app, I realized it depended on an extraction app that I wrote before that. And this reminds me of the whole start of all this testing stuff going back more then a year ago.

It sorta felt like I just took the cover off a hole? And then remembered how deep it goes.

And thankfully I left myself documentation... Though took me a while to find and still looking... (tracing from 1 project to another)

A messaging/social media platform that requires people to share a random code with each other before following/mesaaging each other [more details]

>starts a new project
>new project is kernel
>clinl.tiff
>implements a big bunch of C++ stl
>wants to implement a FS
>needs ATA-Drivers
>ofuck.vmw
>Writes Ata drivers
>Ata drivers don't work on ACPI systems
>i_want_to_kill_kevin.fossil
>implements ACPI according to osdevwiki
>doesn't work
>decides to read the acpi specs

this helps for someone

Yesterday I had my performance review discussion with my manager after about 6 months into the job, which is my first dev job. Before this, I had spent about 2 years in a support role after graduation, but always yearned to build something cool and be a full time developer. Hence I had made the lunge in spite of a pay cut into a development role.

For the past 6 months I was asked to develop a bunch of features on top of legacy code which is ~15 years old. I did my best and brought in the best ideas and practices onto the table and delivered on time. The features turned out great. I enjoyed working with the team and the team loved me back!

But at the back of my mind, I was hoping that I would get to work on something new and relevant. To quench this thirst, I used to spend my personal time on side projects.

The managers and the leads who have been observing me all along, told me yesterday that my manager got AMAZINGLY positive feedback from the leads and my teammates (who are like 10 years senior to me). Going forward, I get to work on any CRAZY idea and pick up any technology I like with the goal of revamping our product. Essentially I get to work on my side projects full time as long as it adds value to the company.

Ohhhhhh YEAH!

Wish me luck. 😎

Story of childhood me learning about pointers in C.

Thinking of writing cool stuff like a virus that deletes all the programs loaded in the RAM, crashing the system:

void main() {
char m = 'c';
char* p = &m;
while(true) {
*p = '';
p++;
}
}

Later learned that OS allocates guarded memory for each program. ;(

😂😂problem with programmers

Waiting for 3 more ++ feels like a loooooonnnnnggggg time...

https://devrant.com/rants/1367635/...

Sometimes i wish i had the power to force a notification into someones brain.

Created this stupid app in like 30 minutes, not good at CSS at all... Can anyone suggest what to add next :/

https://solar-scroller.herokuapp.com/...

I'm really loving Facebook's new design standards they fit so well their latest marketing and rebranding pipe dream to be viewed as a company that respects privacy.

They don't have to protect your info if you can't submit it 😂

Oh Distrochooser, you know your users...