Can I have a job?

Do you have experience with PHP?

Not really.

You're hired!

I'll write something for wk64 next week.

You can't procrastinate if you don't do anything at all

If you're reading this you're doing it wrong.

It saved me from suicide.

You have to understand first that things in India work differently. Academics are not personal, but a social business. Academic competition in India is very high and not in a good way, or for the good reasons.

As a teenager was sent off from my home to the other side of the country. I didn't like it. My studies suffered, and I failed my exams. Came back home and faced months of emotional abuse (guilt trips, scornful comments, plain insults) from my parents, neighbours and relatives. Indian society is just built that way. They didn't know they were damaging my psyche, or they were too angry to care. Lots of other shit (lost friends, lost love) happened at roughly the same time period and everything started to fall like dominos.

I fell into severe depression. Lost appetite, lost sleep. Nothing mattered anymore. There were mornings when I would wake up and not get up from my bed for hours, and not even move a finger. Self-hate became the motto of the day. I became violent and anti-social. I would either be angry or trying not to break down and give up all the time. Many a night, I considered suicide. I would end up googling for easy ways out to take.

But what gave me a way out of the pains of my reality was programming. It helped my keep my head, figuratively and literally. It kept my mind distracted and gave me a sense of purpose. I would shut myself in, plug in my headphones, shut the world out and just experiment.

I am not saying that I am the best at what I do, but those sleepless and troubled nights, and many other similar nights over the years have given me a definite edge over my colleagues.

Even today, when everything is falling to pieces, I know I have something to fall back on. I still get episodes of depression every now and then, but I know I can always pick up a new project and distract myself. It probably isn't healthy, but eh...

I am alive. I code. I kick ass. My colleagues respect and value my opinion. I love my job.

Computer does what I tell it to do (mostly :p) and I feel good. Because for that small moment, I am in control of everything. For that infinitesimally small moment of my average, boring, and somewhat painful life, I am God.

Am I the only one who's bothered by the fact that in CSS, "!important" doesn't mean "not important" ?

Boolean Logic....

<someone> just +1 a rant you posted

Showed my boss DevRant, and now he wants me to make a BossRant..

DevRant

Oops!

Every single time

After a long battle with CSS I give up and show the client a preview.
Client: I like how you made this first row a bit wider. Really makes it stand out.
Me: Yeah...right, that was intentional... 😎

Haha, always a gem ❤

All O RLY book covers. I laughed so hard that my head is blowing right now :D

https://github.com/thepracticaldev/...

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

I believe that devRant needs to have a scheduling feature that you can set your work time in it, so when your hand unconsciously opens devRant in that time, this activity pops up:

Two CSS properties walk into a bar.
A barstool in a completely different bar falls over.

When the API is not documented.

Source /r/ProgrammerHumor

Universe is telling...

CSS is easy until you open your website in another browser.

My new buddy!

😆👌😂

Just remembered this which is perfect for this app 😂

Bill is smart, be like Bill

Based on popular demand, we're proud to introduce a basic image repost detector on devRant!

Right now it uses very simple hashing to see if an exact copy of an image was posted recently. If it was, then we display an error and we don't allow the image to be posted.

This is experimental so if you experience any issues with it please let me know.

One of the many things my non-programmer friends needs to learn!

Fuck you devrant, pseudo funny remotely devrelated things get more upvotes than juicy outbursts of rage

My screens have a different height, but luckily I solved the problem with c++