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I program machines to do things
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localhost

Joined devRant on 10/19/2016

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sudo chmod -R 777

rant linux wk126 lazy

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Time for a digital profile detox?
https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/...

question

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What makes you wake up every day to go work?

question devlife

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Most satisfying bug solved: removed windows, installed linux

rant wk117

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How was your day at work?
Dev: - I managed to break the whole thing, so s**t! 😭
QA: - I managed to break the whole thing, so productive! 😎

joke/meme qa tester

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Architects (of real buildings) can work in IT as game level designers.

undefined mindblow game development

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"42", the answer to life, the universe and everything, is the decimal representation for "*" in the ascii table. Got it? How cool is that?

rant 42

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Moving to a new job 5 months after starting the previous one. The company did not manage to pass my probation period.

undefined probation

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First contact with computers: draw a square using LOGO language. No idea which was the computer back then.

undefined wk89

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Learn modern Javascript, Python, data science, machine learning, to catch up and not be outdated

rant wk85
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Phrases that you use at work that could also be used at a Christmas Party?

undefined poll xmas !rant phrases
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Playing Warcraft and similar games prepared me for understanding Classes and Instances in Object Orientation later.

undefined wk82

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What other profession would you compare developer to?

rant poll

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Newton's First Law: an employee will remain in uniform working motion until they open Youtube.

undefined procrastination !rant youtube

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Expectation = SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Reality = CODE HOUSEKEEPER

undefined fml dev life

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Most common sin: <style> tags. With "! important" statements.

rant wk81

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I am a Windows hostage: 50% of my games are just not supported on Linux/Mac.

undefined steam

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Tell that to almost all owners of my previous workplaces

rant clean code productivity mess

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Applied to a new place that seems cool. Feedback: I am overqualified for what they need and they know I would get bored and leave.

Ok, so let's stay bored in the current one... fml.

undefined jobseek fml

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That's what my family think when they ask "can you please hack my friend's Facebook?"

rant wk80
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My family has no idea about what a dev does

rant wk80

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Considering applying to a regular administrative job, where I can use just 1% of my dev skills in BAT files, Excel macros, browser automation with Selenium, and people will be like "oh man, you are like a hacker!!!"

undefined motivation

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At work we use "Mythological Documentation": mystical features and obscure workarounds are verbally explained across generations of developers that come and go, keepping the knowledge alive.

undefined documentation
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"No time for implementing a new alert with buttons, so the radio buttons' one should do for now..."

rant just kidding baby devrant meta rant

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"fullstack" doesn't mean "3 IT guys for the price of 1"

rant fullstack recruiting

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I felt very inspired when I first controlled a LED using QBasic and the LPT1 (printer) port, back in 1996. It just felt like "so much power"!

(Was more or less similar to the photo)

rant qbasic lpt1 electronics retro wk79

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What about using "$" after punctuation to indicate $ARCASM?

e.g. I barely see people's jokes being misunderstood in devrant!$

random sarcasm

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Some developers get over-excited about using dependency injection and make further maintenance a nightmare.

undefined keep it simple stupid

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Protecting credentials from eavesdropping using HTTP Basic Authorization header:

undefined base64 cybersecurity password hash authentication

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Me: Mining "Bit-what"? Nah, that's bullshit...

6 years ago... So much regret...

rant bitcoin cryptocurrency wk78

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