I'm trapped in a sea of one line work requests. How fucking difficult is it to actually write down your requirements. If you can't be arsed, even after I have asked for clarifications several times, don't act all upset when what I implement doesn't match your expectations.

Thank you for submitting your pr, I shall waste no time in reviewing it

2020 will be either the greatest or the worst, depending on whether the newly elected government in the UK decide to continue to shaft freelancers and Contractors

The time the company had a bring your dog to work day.

Following on from my previous SQL script to find prime numbers

https://devrant.com/rants/2218452/...

I wondered whether there was a way to improve it by only checking for prime factors. It feels really dirty to use a WHILE loop in SQL, but I couldn't think of another way to incrementally use the already found prime numbers when checking for prime factors.

It's fast though, 2 mins 15 seconds for primes under 1,000,000 - previous query took over an hour and a half.

"I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets". - voted funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

Personally I liked one of the runners up:

"I've got an Eton-themed advent calendar, where all the doors are opened for me by my dad's contacts"

BBC News - Vegetable joke is funniest gag at the Edinburgh Fringe
https://bbc.co.uk/news/...

Inspired by this post
https://devrant.com/rants/2217978/...

I challenged myself to use SQL to get the prime numbers under 100,000

What branching methodology do you use and why? We've been using a trunk based development model, but I'm reviewing others.

Vs code today: IDE or code editor? Discuss.

Walked through a part of my home city that I hadn't been to for a while. Look what has opened up there.

1. It is a creative process that I can actually perform reasonably well at.

2. I get a buzz when delivering the solutions to the client and seeing their ideas transformed into a working application. It is, to my mind, a similar feeling that architects and engineers get when seeing their projects to fruition.

3. After 30 years, I am still learning new things, and I am still excited to see how coding will develop in the future.

Happy Father's day to all of the dads here.

!Dev. Just back from the supermarket. Seriously there should be a special place in hell for people who leave their trolley at right angles to the aisle. The place was full of them today. Still it was fun ramming their trolleys out of the way, preferably sending them scooting away down the aisle.

Well I did exactly what it said I would.

Thanks Visual Studio, very helpful.

We have company wide communications such as Skype and WebEx, so why the fuck do people feel the need to hold an ad hoc meeting right behind my desk? Thank God for NC headphones.

Is writing "payed" for the past tense of "pay" (as in to have given money) the most common mistake non native English speakers make?

It's "paid" not "payed".

3 LinkedIn messages from same guy in French. It's bad enough when recruiters don't read your profile and send completely irrelevant jobs, but to send it in a language that you never gave any indication of understanding is a whole new level

! dev. I had to pick up a parcel at lunchtime. Coming out of the shop, there was a parking enforcement officer (what we used to call traffic wardens) standing in front of the door, fiddling with his ticket machine, blocking my exit.

"Excuse me, you can't park there", I said.

He wasn't very amused, miserable bastard.

10 PRINT "Hello world"
20 GOTO 10

Emergency!

Rome wasn't built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour.

DevRant formatting template:

I'm not [insert negative trait] but [insert rant contradicting the first statement]

I'd love if devRant had a search for user name when writing a rant, so if I type @dfox, it'll at least verify the name before I post.

Github sponsors...

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The 3 greatest things in life:

1 A great orgasm

2. A great shit

3. Fixing a major bug before anyone notices.

Work directly on a production system and get all 3 experiences simultaneously.

!Dev but still a work related wtf moment.

A company has lunchtime sessions where people could present their hobbies or interests. All went well until one guy presented about his and his wife's interest in BDSM, complete with props and photos. The sessions were quietly abandoned after that.

Just had to renew my driving licence online. After completing the renewal I get the obligatory "how did we do" questionnaire. Last question:

"How likely are you to use the website again?"

Well pretty likely as it is the only fucking way to renew the licence, but at least not for another 10 years 🙄

At a previous company, a new IT director decided we should outsource the development of a webapi to another company, but this outside company would not be allowed access to the database, so we had to develop a webapi to provide data to the outside company's system, so we could call their webapi and get the same data back.

I'm kind of excited about the development of Web assembly (wasm), and to see Blazor getting closer to a release is awesome.

Blazor Update: 'The End of the Experiment Is in Sight' -- Visual Studio Magazine

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/ar...