I am a female manager at a small, mostly male company, and directly manage several people (all male). One of the six has worked for me for multiple years. Since he began his employment, I always felt he had a “crush” on me and kept my distance (as much as I could as his manager).

His crush has gotten increasingly more obsessive over the past year: constantly staring at me, using absurd reasons to contact me through email/messenger/texts, whether at work or evening/weekends, and getting extremely emotional/upset if I do not frequently talk with him or provide feedback for his every task. He never says anything inappropriate or makes any advances but is making me increasingly more uncomfortable.

My tendency to avoid the employee combined with my obvious annoyance with his increasingly absurd reasons to interact with me is reflecting poorly on my management skills — to the extent that my manager is questioning my abilities to manage.

Manager: I read an article today

Dev: oh here we go….

Manager: We must pivot to only functional programming, which means only using functions instead of classes

Dev: Actually functional programming is a bit more nuanced tha—

Manager: Any use of classes going forward is not allowed. Everything must use functions! Classes are an outdated way of programming, using classes is why we continue to miss our deadlines. Functional programming is lean, classes are waterfall.

Dev: What about the libraries we use? Many of those use classes

Manager: Wrap them in a function then, that way they are pure which is one of the requirements of functional programming. You would know that if you spent as much personal time as I do keeping up with the times.

I was once called in by HR because i ended an email with an exclamation mark. I kid you not. She said i was being stand-offish and it was rude.

It has been almost 4 years since i left that company but i am still quite traumatized.

Has anybody seen this icon?

I hate StackOverflow. I answered 3 question in this week and the fuckers don't even read it. AT LEAST MARK THE FUCKING QUESTION ANSWERED IF YOU ASKED IT.

"man pages" to "persxn pages"

Have you tried AI pair programming? 💨
~ GitHub copilot

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Created this flowchart for idiots to tag their post right.

High Res: http://imgur.com/a/h9P6zhi

You know what I hate? Websites that run so much scripted internet-connected shit in the background that you'll either get a fat error message or even a "failed to load site" screen from the browser if you lose the connection for a few seconds.

What's the motherfucking point of a website when its requirements make it effectively a livestreaming service, despite the content being less dynamic than Zuckerberg's face in US congress?

I don't give a shit whether I have internet when I'm fucking reading, you asshats. And you don't need to remind me when my internet connection is disrupted, I think I'll notice that by myself the next time I click on something and your garbage site will take more than the usual 5 seconds to fucking load the background color.

I was writing some migrations and I had to do THIS. Could I have named my variables differently? Didn't wanna... 😈

The senior advisor assigned to my support case at Apple was called... Siri.

I am immature.

I officially cut ties with all my family.

Shitty, cringy, egoist people to ever exist.

They treat me like shit. Just use me as their slave all the time and when anything goes wrong, blame me for everything.

I consider you all my family now. Though we are virtual friends but you guys are better than real family.

I found an api that doesn't offer https when you use their free plan.

FFS, you have to send your api in plaintext... What dumbass of a developer didn't step up to marketing and told them to shut their fucking uneducated mouths

So a few days ago I found a programming language called Imba. And I think it is an excellent web programming language. It is very fast, has a clean and easy to read syntax, compatible with any JS library (since it compiles to JS), has inbuilt CSS, can be used to build a full-stack website, and has been in active development for a long time (6 years). It is relatively unknown, so there are not many big projects built with Imba. Two of the big projects that I found so far are Scrimba (an online learning platform) and Iceland's fish auction market.

Some useful links:
Imba website: imba.io
A benchmark website from 2018: https://somebee.github.io/dom-recon...

HR Bull crap

So a porn company just bought the vidme domain and set up a redirect for all old vidme urls.

As a result, many websites like the Washington Post got porn videos embedded on a couple places.

This is so fucking hilarious. Maybe there's a slim chance they learn the lesson and stop shoving shitty autoplaying videos into their news articles.

https://vice.com/en/article/...

When the interns mess up big time, good orgs support them. 😭💙

Timezones. So, general rules are:

1. If you don't store timezone, always use and assume UTC. Databases, backends, whatever you use, all time must be kept be in UTC.
2. If you store timezones, ensure you store them everywhere and don't drop them anywhere.
3. It's always better to ignore backend server time in favor of database's `now().` Having a single source of truth makes time consistent (if it's the same database, obviously). If you combine backend time and database time, you likely get a violation of causality.

I've just spent a couple of hours investigating "weird random one-hour time drifts on updates." Guys violated all three rules above:
- they didn't store the timezone;
- their servers had inconsistent timezones. Java was in +XX., while the server itself in UTC. On one host, they forgot to put JVM in the same timezone;
- they dropped the timezone because they thought it was the same everywhere, so there was no point in serializing it.

🤣😂😏

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Hmm, Manager called us for a meeting to discuss our future plan

All we ended up listening he wants to open up his own caffe with library

:(

So, none other than the father of our beloved Linux kernel - Linus Torvalds, just totally put an antivax guy down in the public kernel mailing list.

I think I love Linus even more now. He may not be a people person, but he sure does know how to totally rip people into shreds lol.

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/...

Add your fucking requirements.txt files or atleast have a decent fucking readme. I have had to implement many official repos for AI ML papers now and most of them are shit with a load of bugs in them, cant you implement them properly while you are at it?

Also would like to add most of the sota results arent honest maybe famous ones are but the research community is full of shit really. All of that cant be changed but atleast add readmes and requirements ffs.
I have to spend days just to implement your sub par result providing fuckery.
I’d rather just code it all myself sometimes

Your ability to form a coherent sentence is a race condition.

Worst dev experience was when I was asked to "take a look at" a propriatery Windows app built by a now non-existent team at the company.

The code base resembled the quality of legacy code where about every hour I felt like I needed to vomit. But that wasn't even the worst part for me.

This was the first time I had to develop on Windows and was sent a separate dedicated laptop for this. Now I started to have a bad feeling about this because as far as I had known every single dev at the company used company Macs for development (including me for other projects). It turned out the Windows laptop was indeed configured for a non-dev team :)

Having liased with IT admins for a day I finally got my environment set up and hit install on the dependencies and in 10 minutes it got to less than 10%. The laptop was pretty powerful so I couldn't belive wtf was going on, fans were ramping. Checked task manager and the company Anti-Malware was hogging the whole CPU.

I was so mad that I managed to get the IT admins to completely disable it and then it was only the pain of working with shitty code on Windows which would have been more than enough from the start. Thankfully it only lasted a week.

When you send your stuck coworker a stack-overflow link and he copies the code from the question instead of one of the answers

The italic mono space font on SO resembles child's handwriting

One CDN goes down and whole world thinks it’s the end of the world!
It’s an opportunity to improvise and bring up something better

!rant
I just cleaned a project in the repo and got the build size down to 4.7Mb from 6.2Mb. The feeling of ecstasy!!