Ok c++ professionals out there, I need your opinion on this:
I've only written c++ as a hobby and never in a professional capacity. That other day I noticed that we have a new c++ de developer at the office of which my first impression wasn't the greatest. He started off with complaining about having to help people out a lot (which is very odd as he was brought in to support one of our other developers who isn't as well versed in c++). This triggered me slightly and I decided to look into some of the PRs this guy was reviewing (to see what kind of stuff he had to support with and if it warranted his complaints).

It turns out it was the usual beginner mistakes of overusing raw pointers/deletes and things like not using various other STL containers. I noticed a couple of other issues in the PR that I thought should be addressed early in the projects life cycle, such as perhaps introduce a PCH as a lot of system header includes we're sprinkled everywhere to which our new c++ developer replies "what is pch?". I of course reply what it is and it's use, but I still get the impression that he's never heard of this concept. He also had opinions that we should always use shared_ptr as both return and argument types for any public api method that returns or takes a pointer. This is a real-time audio app, so I countered that with "maybe it's not always a good idea as it will introduce overhead due to the number of times certain methods are called and also might introduce ABI compability issues as its a public api.". Essentially my point was "let's be pragmatic and not religiously enforce certain things".

Does this sound alarming to any of you professional c++ developers or am I just being silly here?

Just found out that Oracle Linux is a thing. That has to be the biggest contradiction I've heard of so far... Luckily I'm still relatively young.

Here is a picture of my Mac as experienced by me

Can someone get an excerpt from the SO user db and diff it against the DevRant user db and compile a do-not-hire list of the ones that are only on SO?

And yes, I was recently triggered by a SO elitist.

This also assumes all the nice SO members are members of DevRant, which I think is fairly accurate.

My mouth: "It's probably the cache"
My brain: "I have no fu***** clue what's wrong"

Hours spent on application development: 8
Hours spent on tackling shitty infrastructure: 48

I'm fairly convinced that a company that replaced their PM:s with socially competent (i.e not complete cave trolls with no sense for UX) engineers (that of course would also get their hands dirty in an operational manner) would be far more successful than than a company that rides the PM/product dev hype wave. I think there is an apparent disconnect between the expectations of a full fledged PM and what the average PM actually seem to deliver on a daily basis in your avarage company.

This is of course a generalization and I bet there are dedicated PM:s that actually pull their weight, and I might very well only had bad experiences, but this is aimed at what I consider to be the avarage company.

Has anyone deployed and actually used a similar model? If so; what are your conclusions?

Who the **** mixes bright and dark themes. Never talk to me or my son again, I Fliffr

Christmas is complete 😍

Brainwashed Oracle HR Associate: So tell me, why do you want to work here at Oracle?

Applicant (that loves Apache Struts 1.2.4 and WebDav): It would be an honor to be a part of this great conspiracy and sell your products to mid-level project leaders that should not take tech stack decisions.

Brainwashed Oracle HR Associate:
Welcome aboard!

Apple is probably the biggest cult known to man. With Nespresso at a close 2nd place.

My game engine that isn't building itself for some reason 🤔

Has anyone used an Oracle product that does not suck complete ass?

My new car will obviously have a top speed of more than 2147483647 km/h...

One picture to rule them all

People who freak out and think they have been hacked when you send a message to them on the prod server using the wall command should not be allowed SSH access.

After working for about 3 years of my life I've established the following;

Work is mostly stupid people praising other stupid people about their stupid work, while clever people remain in the shadows. Will this be true for the rest of my career or am I just working at a company with a bad culture?

By working from home, in my morning robe, jacked up on lethal doses of caffeine, blasting the latest glass cloud album.

That the heredoc identifier can't be indented in PHP :(

What's your take on developing web with python (using Django for example)?

Coming from PHP, Symfony , etc, my first impressions are that it's clunky and very backend oriented.

There should be a Nobel prize for compiling without errors after 2 hours of coding tbh

How to tell a programmer from a fraud:

1. Wait for some idiot to crank up the brightness of the dimmable ceiling lights at the office to the max with the motivation "the difference in brightness between the screen and surroundings is damaging your eyes"
2. You found him/her

That was surprisingly quick, waited a week at most.

My cat also thinks this project is completely upside down

How come starting a new project is always more appealing than finishing the infinite amount of unfinished projects :'(

My new team more or less forced me to change from a Windows machine to a Mac (Mac book pro, I think?) due to "compatibility issues", so I thought I might as well see what all the Mac fuzz is about. Here is a list of my observations so far:
- If you try powering on the mac book with more than one DisplayPort cable plugged in, the screen will go black until you plug all DP cables out

- If you unplug your DisplayPort cables to go to a meeting you can expect one of the monitors getting frozen on the blurry login screen (without any login prompt) when you get back (while the main monitor shows your desktop without the taskbar)

- If you get out of range from your wireless peripherals (keyboard in this case) while going to a meeting your keyboard layouts are most likely deleted and reset to U.S qwerty when you get back to your desk

- When pressing quit on any application you can't expect in to close and clear up memory, it will remain in the background until you force kill it.

- There is a 50/50 chance that your Mac book never wakes up from sleep

Best thing is that I found out today that the software we use is completely compatible with any RedHat/Solaris distro.

Rant over.

My parents are happy that I'm finally able to fund my caffeine addiction all by myself

Thank god it's Friday, y'all know what what means; git push -f