How do you guys use the "extra" buttons on the mouse? Mine are currently set to back/forward, but I don't see myself using it that often while coding, so I'm looking for some ideas on how to better take advantage of them.

Have you guys ever seen a YSOD? (yellow screen of death)

Me neither, until now...

I had to sign a GDPR form when renewing my car's insurance. Also I forgot to renew it on time because of GDPR. They used to call me a week before it expired, but since the new regulation they could not. I like and hate GDPR at the same time.

Apparently Chrome will no longer support installing add-ons outside of the official store by the end of this year. Not even in dev mode...

I've just came across this, the title of the video is "Is Google always listening". I think it's worth watching. Sad times if this is true...

https://youtu.be/zBnDWSvaQ1I

Fucking windows crashed during a competitive match and I had to hard restart my machine hoping to be able to reconnect in time only to find out windows fucking wants to fucking update. FUCK

The project I have been working on was growing and growing and growing... It reached it a point where the front-end was really hard to maintain. The worst part was the communication protocol, we were using JSON to serialize really complex objects.

I took some initiative and suggested that we use protobuf instead of JSON. Long story short, data usage is 10% of what it used to be, serialization and deserialzation is much faster, and the best of all, everything is strongly typed, with auto generated classes. Fucking awesome!

Client calls me requesting a new simple feature.
Connect to FTP server.
Edit some PHP pages and upload them back, check if the changes actually worked.

Basically implementing and testing a new feature on a live production website...

PS. It didn't work the first or second time

What would you think about sharing something cool (preferably tech related), or weird, or f-ed up about the country or the city you live in?

I'll go first, here in Cluj-Napoca, Romania the internet really fast and dirt cheap like 1gbps fiber for 15€/month.

2. The government paid like millions of € to add ticket vending machines for public transportation and they mostly don't work, I managed to crash one while buying a ticket. Card payment is not functional on like half of them. Also they run Windows......... What a joke...

Looking forward to hear your stories on this topic!

I think it's a black box for them...
Here is how I imagine they see it:

I go to work -> *I stand in front of the computer all day, typing stuff* -> I get paid

Is a masters degree in IT worth it? I mean I've just started my masters in Software Engineering after my Computer Science bachelor's and I expected to learn something useful from it. So far they have taught only bullshit and stuff that I haven't found useful since I've started my IT career 3 years ago (now I am the team lead at a small startup, and I consider myself a really good developer). To summarize, is a masters diploma useful? Will it help me with anything, give that I've started working as a developer (freelancer, didn't know much back then) when I was still in high school (CV bragging rights)?

I just realized that malware developers invest so much time into the UX, that users find downloading and installing malware way easier than downloading and installing the actual piece of software.

How come so many people hate Electron but they love Atom.io which is built with Electron?

Testing the code