@Alice Actually there is a woman with her last name ‘Null’ in the USA. She had issues opening accounts in banks or trying to buy online plane tickets.

PS: why do people still use == in JS? >.<

@chadd17 It seems it’s a problem with my relatives then. Should I change them? Do you know a black market?

TEACH ME, MASTER!

No, really... how did you manage?

@aitkotw I’m tired of stuff like this (read my first rant).

@Wandi Already quit 2 weeks ago. I have other 2 weeks of staying here.

@dprimax Last time this happened led the project to redirect to a indian news website. It took 6 months to close. Funny or not: the same company (~100k employees) took over both projects.

I was talking about this kind of crap with designers in my first rant. This is one of the reasons i left corporate life. They all think they are working for Apple, are at least product owner and are in charge of everything.

No. Just no.

How I dealt with such persons: one quit because nobody talked to them anymore, I escalated one of them to the higher managers for being rude with people and she was removed from the project, one of them began to have problems because of the same attitude in front of the higher managers and it’s quite possible to be removed from the project (I don’t know what will happen because the case is not closed and I won’t be in the company when that happens). There are other cases from smaller companies if you are interested.

My ex-best friend (if it can be said like that) is a designer. Along the time he got the same attitude in his private life, reason for which we kinda broke our friendship. He was trying to control my life as well.

Lol. There was one guy who was asking me "how do i style a class in CSS". One year later he was writing articles on LinkedIn about why choosing a framework and not another one.

It is a madness with frameworks at the moment. Some years ago it was the same situation but with languages: typescript, coffeescript, haxe, dart, go lang and so on.

This is why i don't quite go to conferences and stuff like that. That's the starting point of a new framework. "Look how my beautiful frameworks does exactly the same thing as the other 321413421312 available frameworks! But mine is better because I wrote it!"

Usually I never ask framework questions during interviews. I want my guys to be DEVS, not framework users. This depends on the project I recruit people for tho, but I never pass someone who knows a framework but has issues with JS concepts.

I remember my first time leading a project in a company. It was a small project (a company website for one of our clients) which I built using "cutting edge tech" at that time (ng 1.2, node + express, jade). Uhh...

Congrats mate! May the Death Star light your path into becoming a proper Darth Vader!

@brainzeat The apps invented and developed by Microsoft are running much more smoothly on Android and iOS then WP. Office suite, Skype, Outlook, even the ol' Solitaire.

I had my phone sent into service and i used my old Lumia 930 for 2 weeks. I remember it running extremely smooth with WP 8.1 but i installed WM10. God dammit it drove me nuts. It was my primary phone 2 years ago but it is completely unusable with WM10. The battery goes empty in 5 hours of normal usage (not continuous usage), everything hangs (from OS to apps and store), the phone almost melts because it gets hot like hell.

@rangler >.< i am on devrant for some days. Definitely still a junior here as I need to learn the language better for not getting understood wrongly. I was approving your statements, not judging :(

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@rangler That’s what i’m saying mate :-/.

@cwizard they did everything under the guy’s office. No moving involved. That’s why I wanted to be understood correctly. Sorry if I sounded rude or anything...

@cwizard That was not the power cord, but the power button connection to the motherboard. Basically pressing the power button did not trigger the motherboard to start the PC.

It depends what you are looking for. Please note that the 13” mbp with an i7 cpu will start the fans much more often than a 15”. At the same time, 13” is much more portable than the other one.

The 13” supports only two monitors simultaneous (internal + external or 2 externals) while the 15” supports more than that (i had 4 at the same time).

Personally i use a maxed out version of the 2015 15” one. My girlfriend uses the 2015 13” maxed out version. Besides the above things, there are some differences in terms of audio output (15” is much better, loader and the sound is not that flat).

From my POV: if you want it as your main dev machine, go for the 15”. Otherwise go for the 13”.

@HAlex I managed to explode a CD-ROM because i tried to open Heroes 2 i think and it was saying "please insert the 2nd CD". So i inserted 2 CDs at the same time.

@gitpush Well deserved revenge ^_^

@HAlex Something like that...

PS: this reminds me the time i discovered ‘add new hardware’ option in Win95 control panel. I added the infrared driver and then went to get every remote in the house. I was extremely mad because they were not working so i added it 3-4 more times. I was 7 years old >.<

@QueenMorgana It contains a BT receiver also. I forgot about it because mine is not working anymore. It got bricked when I made a software update for it to support BLE 4.0 also.

OMG that's not an HDD for fck sake. It is the next generation of wireless adapters. It attracts the WiFi waves via the vent, then it captures the packages using the embedded circuits and finally it is spreading the internet to all the components in your PC.

Who hires you in the IT world, huh?

@MonsieurMan: Say no more...

X201, X220 and T430. Those are in the appartment at the moment. I have a wide variety from T42s if i remember correctly to T450. 10 or 12 in total :).

@wiredgecko Don’t rush to PHP. Next, i would continue to consolidate my knowledge and explore the ‘strange’ world of programing languages. C# is quite close to JS and TS (it has ‘var’, the syntax is not extremely rigid) but lacks solid support in cross-platform war. Java is widely used but it might produce some shocks due to the rigid syntax. Starting with Java 8 they began to introduce good support for functional programming and it got a lil’ bit better.

I saw WP used as a CMS for online shopping carts, blogs, news websites, company websites, pseudo hr app, landing page system and other things i don’t remember. It has to die in pain. MUCH. MORE. PAIN. THAN. FLASH.

@CozyPlanes I had used vivaldi for some time but it had some issues which drove me nuts. Sometimes i had to press middle click 3 times before closing a tab, some websites were not available due to the user agent, scrolling was hanging sometimes.

@ChrisHilo I totally support removing adblock and yes, ublock origin is the one.

The above represents my oppinion. That’s how i train my guys. I found it to be a simple way to introduce someone to web development without removing his hair with a box glove. The explanation behind it is simple: giving them a roadmap and a visual output of their work, they begin to gain interest much faster.

Mate stop jumping from a tech to another. An easy way to achieve a stability as a developer from my perspective is: learn HTML5 (focus on understanding how to achieve things easier rather than remembering tags), CSS3 (with one of the pre-processors variation: SASS, LESS, Stylus, PostCSS + cssnext) and JS (if you have some insights about programming, get JS The Definitive Guide), incuding ES6. After understanding inheritance, prototyping, event looping and the principles around JS, read about StencilJS and write the UI of an online shopping cart using mocked data. You will meet with TypeScript, web-components, SPA principles, JSX. Stencil is great because it has React-based syntax, virtual dom, angular-like decorators and the bootstrap is pretty easy to install.

After that move to the backend for writing a simple api system to serve the UI. You can use node since you will be familiar with it. Don’t overcomplicate things, keep them as simple as possible.

@Artemix: i do understand you, but you reaction was a little bit provocative. I understand that there are some frustrations (not yours, but general) around node and JS especially.

Node can do a lot of good stuff. You just need to understand what are those good things and where you should not use it.

"because that shit will never run a fully-fledged enterprise service". I beg to differ. I met a lot of fully-fledged enterprise services running on node :).

Dependencies are something you decide if you want to use or not. It's the same thing with Java and packages. It's the same thing with any other dependency-based project. You can mirror npm repo if you want. Doing so will enable you to have whatever package you want.

PS: Node is not slower than PHP5 + Apache. It is not slower than Java + Tomcat/JBoss/WebLogic. It is just different.

Get a MacBook if you want to do development in the future. Search for the article where IBM is explaining that, on the long run, Macs are less expensive than other machines.

As per virtualization and Linux: macOS IS "linux". You have bash, you have everything you need. Additionally you can just install Parallels and you will have a VM (Win or Linux) up and running in no time. VMWare is expensive, Virtual Box is a stupid thing that must die etc.

No mactard here. Just pointing out what can be better for you.

PS: get the maxed out 15" version of 2015 MacBook. Best bung for the buck.

@Artemix: I tend to agree with you, but I strongly disagree at the same time.

Node is not a piece of shit, it is just another "tool" in the development lifecycle. If someone uses it as something it was not supposed to do (yes, node is not a web server and it was not made for heavy cryptography) then it's not node's fault.

Everything is perfect in their context. It's not node vs Java as you cannot ask an electrical engineer: "What do you want to use from now on? The hammer or the screwdriver?"