Things I need for the office

Designer x Developer gif

Two reasons why I love devRant.
1. None of my clients are here so I can say what I want.
2. Everyone gets my geeky ass jokes that usually only I laugh at.

Does anyone else suddenly lose the ability to type properly as soon as someone is watching/pairing?

Love looking back at code I wrote months ago and thinking, "why did I even do this?"

Company sends email notifying us we'd need to register for two factor authentication because it would be mandatory for all access to email within a week. However, it had to get manager approval and had a side effect of giving us access to work from home (which my manager hates). So, we send the request to him, explain the situation, he denies it and says "that can't be right! Let's do this: if you do in fact lose access to email, then I'll approve it". Well, we did lose it, and just spent two days without any access to email and it was a huge pain to get the registration process done because one of its steps involved getting a validation code from the email.

Was having an internship interview, and the guy starts laughing while reading my resume and says:
"don't put visual basic on your resume if you don't want to work with it"
I proceeded to remove it ASAP.

When you write scripts to automate stuff because you're lazy, but you spend so much time writing them it makes you doubt your own laziness

"Working with legacy code that hasn't been touched in 2 years is fun!!" said no one ever.

I really hate it when online sources aimed at educating people looking to get into programming attack specific languages. I'm ok with them recommending some good starting languages (ex. JavaScript, Python, etc.) but I find it extremely inappropriate and damaging when they list languages they consider "bad." Languages like JavaScript, PHP and Java constantly get called out even though they power a huge chunk of the web and services hundreds of millions of people use every day. IMO it's a huge disservice to tell beginners not to even look at these languages. We should be teaching the language isn't really what's important - it's what you build with it.

I'll mail a brand new devRant squishy ball to the first 5 people who make a devRant-related tweet (including @devrantapp) in it and link to it in a comment on this rant. Go!

when you're the only developer at a firm and the client wants something bc "it's super simple, that's how ebay does it, just copy them"

Client wants a hit counter in their site.....is this 1998?

When you see a someone write this
if(condition){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

My new shirt came today!

When your boss wants to use the client's infos about it's clients without anyone's permission, and doesn't understand why it's against basic privacy laws

me: *finds the thread on issue i encountered*
thread created 2014: no answer
someone replied 2015: "got the same issue any thoughts?" and no ome answered
me: it's fckn 2016 already!!

Create form functioning to facilitate client's whim because they need it yesterday. 2 days later they are still working out the wording for the confirmation page.

TNW brought me here. And I am not disappointed.

I don't have enough Laptop stickers on my laptop

When a client drags ass for weeks on giving you content for their site but wonders why their changes aren't live within 24 hours. 😐🔫

when a client doesn't have their images or copy for their website but wonder what the hold up is. (hint: it's not us)

A while back we had some time sensitive work I was doing in overtime, the work was purely functional and the front end had not yet been done. It went to QA to test the functionality and the only feedback I got was UX oriented.

I tried to explain on 3 occasions that the looks was not important in the slightest at this stage, and just try to break it. I then got a lecture that it wasn't an optimised layout and was shown the AA route finder as an example of how the tester thought it should look.

And left the bar alone.

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