I'm all for alternative methods of learning but this post on FreeCodeCamp is total bollocks.

How does someone take and complete a class in data structures in one week?

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how...

When you read a job description that references a skill set and Hans Reiser in a cringeworthy manner -

" - Experience with Go/Python/C
- Is merciless like Hans Reiser
"

The feels when @dfox +1's your rants.

Took a class on neural nets once upon a time and all the prerequisites had been taught in C/C++ but the professor insisted on teaching in Matlab because they didn't know C/C++.

When you're having to add BS/hackey conditionals to your code because the other dev is too damn lazy to fix their code.

Was generating a JSON based config manually to be used by a script another dev wrote - only to be criticized for using the text editors built in formatter. Evidently lining up the colon separating key value pairs is a thing.

If readability was so important to you why the fuck did you decide on using JSON as a configuration format? Especially when you could have gone with YAML or better yet INI (flat key/value pairs) style config.

Back when rickrolling had hit critical mass - we decided to play a trick on a very fussy project manager. Long story short we embedded a very important message from the CEO of the company on a staging site. Said project manager was taken aback when Rick Astley took over the video.

Why the fuck do some developers think it's cool or cute to name their software after genitalia?

Some of these tossers really need to grow up.

Isn't it fanbloodytastic when you switch dev teams and your former team mates start blaming you for broken builds?

Fortunately I had logs to cover my arse. F*** blameworthy company cultures.

When a developer refers to everyone on the team as family and you're thinking the complete & total opposite.

Once upon a time I was working with an engineer who loved sed and awk a bit too much. We had data stored in SharePoint that was retrievable via an RSS feed. Said engineer insisted on using curl to grab the feed and sed/awk to parse the HTML ...

I on the other hand suggested using libcurl (primarily for NTLM auth support) and parsing the RSS feed using libxml.

Which engineer do you think management decided supporting?

Hint: Reusability and maintainability were big requirements in this project.

The video shorts done by the devRant team surpasses the crap that shows like "Silicon Valley" or "Halt and Catch Fire" put out.

Sometimes I envy frontend developers because the very nature of their role involves rapid change. Then I remember that backend devs can practically get away with murder and the customer will be none the wiser.

When a fellow developer gets angry that a large chunk of their code is being deleted because it's no longer needed.

Less is more.

When you're working with a QA/test engineer that insists on manually testing code that have automated tests. Can any test engineera chime in here?

F*** companies that give you a coding project to work on and still haven't responded a month after submission. Tech interviews are so beyond f***ed.

Was recently phone interviewed by a recruiter that asked "So do you know data structures and algorithms?" I replied "That's like asking someone if they know Mathematics - can you be a bit more specific?"

Back in the late 90's when I got started in my career - had a boss that didn't known the difference between Java and JavaScript. I made the mistake of trying to explain the difference. If you can keep the boss in the dark and get away with it - do it. Ignorance is bliss.