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My neighbours have so many fucking IoT devices that they basically fuck over the entire 2.4GHz spectrum over here just by themselves...
Thanks for that you cuntbags.

Every time management says "were now using SaaS product X, and they're giving a webinar so we can learn how to use their solutions to take our business to the next level!" — I can't help but associate it with Nigerian Prince scams.

The longer I'm a developer, the more I think vertical integration and inventing your own shitty wheels isn't such a bad idea.

Their generalized, overpriced seat-per-month service always boils down to "vendor lock-in, nothing can be customized or exported, integrations are a pain in the ass, and within a few months the bills will explode because of some overage fee".

Not sure if I should be happy of I should cry.
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I woke early today so I could directly start working on my little project to make some progress.
I was coding for ~10 hours.. The code worked fine for all testcases, except for one. I debugged for hours and I couldnt figure out what was wrong. I tried changing stuff in my code and it got more and more messy to the point where I couldn't even understand my own code anymore. I was so frustrated ...
> Deleted everything I made today.
> Rewrote the entire thing in one hour with a different, more structured approach.
> Worked perfectly for all cases, even the very complex ones.

1 day wasted....

Should I be happy that I came up with something decent in the end? I am still mad cause I wasted the entire day.. Why did I not directly went for the thing I did in the end ..? ._.

The fuuuuuucckkkkk

black mirror - bandersnatch. This is some next level shit... I kept postponing watching this on netflix. Just watched it today.

It's so twisted on soooo many levels..

How many times did you watch it?

No spoilers please :)

Stackoverflow.

being programmer in movies is like:

At the office at 7am when no one is around. It's huge, open, and empty, with that classic morning peace-and-quiet vibe. Lasts about 2 hours

Do developers have to get everything approved from the product manager. Even the name of a function and explain why you chose to pass something as a parameter? Isn't this micromanagement?

HR: Do you work under pressure?
Me: Yes, but I swear very much.
HR: what?
Me: uh.. and sometimes I punch in the face, yes just in the face.

I don't know why my colleagues asked me to solve the problem with Google Calendar .... If I could fix it, I'd probably work for Google and so ... I couldn't be your colleague! Right? 😅

SPDX. Actually a cool idea, you slap one line of comment in your source files that gives the licence. Easy to understand at a glance, and grep friendly. Also no more "huh what exactly does this licence here say, is that MIT, BSD with or without shit or what".

But once you have something simple, you can bet some design committee tries to "improve" it and cover everything imaginable.

The result looks like this (see also screenshot): https://wiki.spdx.org/view/...

Holy shit. What was that about? Simplifying crap? Yeah sure that's totally what it looks like.

My biggest dev sin is not writing any unit tests for devRant :/

Discord apparently has a new vuln allowing bot accounts to become normal accounts without regenerating the token. Explains all the thotbots and shit appearing.

Wellp, I just had a cowoker send me a screenshot. By that I mean a .pdf of the application we both work on that looks like she somehow manifested the program into the physical world and ran it through an early 90's copier, scanned the resulting piece of paper, and sent me that.

Should I setup pi hole?

This “Caps lock is on” feature when typing in passwords was probably very angrily added by a developer after several failed log in attempts.

Have a Skype interview in 15min for a backend position. Only the first screening, but I'm anxious anyway.
Wish me luck!

So I've been screaming for months that push notifications are not reliable enough to build critical functionality on top of. Management won't listen and keep pushing ahead with making teams use it because its cheap and easy.

Been debugging an issue on/off for several weeks. Turns out someone in management asked the backend team to cut the expiration time of items down to 5 minutes to increase throughput (without telling mobile). Notifications are regularly taking +4 mins to get to the phones, leaving our users with barely any time to react. They are now complaining.

I swear if there is a single IQ point available between the whole team i've yet to see any evidence of it

On earth, it has wifi and chocolate

When we finally get to Mars, all programmers on Earth will scream in pain over having to program another timezone

My local coffee bar. At first I missed my second screen, but it’s so worth it!

HR: How many years you've been developing on Xamarin ?
Me: Three years, with many side projects
HR: So, you're familiar with C#?
Me: No, I've been coding in "hieroglyphs".