Overheard this today.

Client: I've tried running it but the batch file isn't working.

Tech: You're a batch file.

DevRant meeting is going! Having some drinks right now 😁

No offences

Dutchies and some other peoples who want to join the Dutch devRant meeting!

Since nothing is being decided or whatsoever, this is the plan as for what I think would work best and based on feedback/comments/the chat.

We'll meet up at the The Hague train station around 2PM. From there on it really depends on what everyone wants to do but my idea would be (depending on the weather) to go to a park or get a coffee or something like that.

So, what do you guys/gals think?

Hello people. A few people of the Dutch section of devRant have been talking about a possible meetup for a while now and a day or so ago we thought fuck it, let's not keep postponing but just get this fucker running.

So the idea is to (still quite short term) get together in The Hague the second weekend from now (so around the 21st).

Saturday or Sunday and meetup place have yet to be decided.

Let's discuss in the comments!

What music do you listen to while programming?
I personally listen to a lot of epic film music or metal, depending on my mood.

You know... fuck frontend development.

I don't mind developing a nice interface and thinking about how users will work with my software. But I HATE (lack of a stronger word) the whole npm/grunt/bower/yarn/everyfuckingframeworkclient chaos.

Can we just pick ONE fucking tool and mature it.

...

There

Bought Macbook with my first salary 😍
That's oneplus 5 on the side 😋

What keyboard does everyone use?
I switched to a Logitech Orion G610 with Cherry MX Blue's and I'm loving it.

Vim.
Three letters that strike fear in the hearts of millions.

>50$ for a display driver

yeah fuck you i'll solder

So @Linux suggested to make a face revealing rant!

This is the face behind @linuxxx! post yours BUT only if you're comfortable with it :).

One of my friends told me that i was a monster. She heard me say that we should kill the kids.

I guess processes have rights now.

Saw a counting variable in code. It was a necessary counting variable, so that is not what this is about.

However, this is a US based company that has a somewhat PC (no cursing) and professional cultural facade.

This variable was called "cnt". How the hell did that one not get caught in peer review? I have gotten dinged for having "possibly offensive" variable names (think Point5Hit though I have never written that as a variable name). It was funny. But I have changed it because that's just lazy.

Other than the obligatory “Hello World”, what was the first program you had ever written, Personally and also Professionally?

For me...

PERSONALLY: Fibonacci Calculator.

PROFESSIONALLY: Menu System.

Somebody sent me this t-shirt; how many technically incorrect things can you find?

How do i start with developing?

After being a lurker for over half a year, I've finally decided to join devRant. My biggest hang up was picking an username but I finally decided to just go for it.

What is with me and my headphones ? 4 headphones , all broken after 4 to 5 months of use and one recent headphone rendered unusable after 1 month . I am going to ditch wired headphones for good ! That fragility of the wires near the connector .. I suspect they are intentionally made fragile to frustate the customer and make them buy a new one !! :(

Prof: Okay guys, i need a flash drive to put a copy of your next project.

Me: *pulls out a flash drive and sho-..*

Prof: except you, I dont trust you.

var devRant = new DevRant();
devRant.Subscribed += (target, args) =>
{
Console.WriteLine("Welcome, " + args.User.Name + "!");
}

...

var self = devRant.GetCurrentUser();
self.Subscribe();
...
...
> Welcome, olezhka!

The mobile web version of GitHub is absolute garbage. It's so shitty I don't even get why they bother. It lacks basic features like issue searching and the interface is so dumbed down everything just feels cheap and I always feel like I'm missing out.

All the devs I've talked to say they always just select "show desktop version." I do that too. It works perfectly. It's so fucking annoying. I wish they would just make a real mobile version, that's not missing features, or just default to the desktop app on mobile - works fine and everyone uses it anyway.

This happens when production issue comes between Onam (Hindu festival) celebration.

A rant is a rant but sometimes you need to step back and look around to the colleagues you rant about.

In the end they are people with fears and doubts just like you and they need to start somewhere to learning, doesn't matter if it is spaghetti code, good practices etc. Just be a good coach and explain how to do the things.

In the end they will learn something and in my case, I prefer to be seen like the guy who helps rather then the guy who just complains.

Ty and happy posting :)

I'm not a Web developer, but I certainly know that's not the way to do it...

This rant just fucked up devRant unofficial for Windows 10.
It causes a JSON syntax error in the API response. 🤣

Thanks @kwilliams! 😁

Contributing to Servo, Mozilla's prototype web browser. It took me three full months of receiving help from the Mozilla research team to merge my first semi-complex PR.

I even wrote a huge blog post about it: http://brainlessdeveloper.com/2017/...

Implementing a neural network trained with a genetic algorithm from scratch, no libs or frameworks. It was intense.

I feel like a fucking abomination at the moment.

I have been working on an app that is almost like Wireshark. More so for practice than anything else.

I decided that today I would try it out on the network here at my house, so I started the packet sniffer and wanted to see what was going on. I was checking for unencypted text (like telnet and whatnot) and came across this odd address that I hadn't seen before.

I did something that I shouldn't have done, and I fucking clicked and did the equivalent of "follow TCP stream" on wireshark. I fucking went and looked what the text being sent over this fucking network was.

It was my girlfriend, using fuck knows what messenger, but it was unencrypted. I just found out that she is cheating on me. I don't want to go into what the texts exactly say, because it fucking hurts me deep down.

Why didn't she just use whatsapp or something, fuck man. I really don't need this in life at the moment. I am genuinely trying to get my shit in order, I have been coding my ass off at night for extra money to make it, I have been working overtime where I can - fuck I have even tried sucking up to management (I would never do this under normal circumstances) - and to top this off, the motherfucking tax man is giving me hell.

Fuck sakes.

If you want to cheat, fucking do it properly. Because I am in a state of pure sadness and hatred and the moment - and I don't know what the fuck to do.

Being a sysadmin, I never write any code.
But I do want to learn that.
What is the easiest language to learn?
(I am lazy)