@MadOgre that explains a lot, but not how they got a coding job in the first place.

@C0D4 the average user doesn't even care or notice anymore, except when they close their browser by trying to type an @ character in an email address, what's probably one the few differences left between the desktop UI and that Mac defaults to the wrong scroll direction.

I haven't been the only dev to provision family members including elderly "non-tech" ppl different computers including Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows.

It's like driving another person's car. Some have manual gear shift, some have the hand brake on an unexpected side, but most people will be able to drive any car on a short trip without thinking about or discussing differences. Same with computers.

If all you need to do is write some text, use a spreadsheet, and do everything else in your browser, it's no big deal.

Why the hiring process is broken? Why are people responsible for hiring that can't even master the English language in times of autocompletion and AI?

as a commit message?

Now I remember why I was not too fond of pair programming. Similar situations make developers hate "agile" working when it's dictated top to bottom involving incompetent middle management and incompetent coworkers. Now I remember why I was not too fond of corporate culture.

Out of context, both sides could be wrong. I'm still not sure which was your part of the conversation.

and thanks to Meetup.com's deterioration, Eventbrite can get away with being just a little bit less annoying. Their user journeys feel like a worst-practice-parody of how not to do UX.

Who would come up with the following message in a small font size near a new password field that isn't marked as wrong but instead has a fat green underline because of the successful password strength?

"Your password wasn't changed. New password matches one of last 4 used passwords"

If the users still don't give up and manage to get things "right", you can still show this classic one:

"There has been an error. Please try again later."

No thanks, but I won't.

Sounds like the sound of `docker-compose up`

@Demolishun isn't any Microsoft technology a red flag? Unfortunately I've become so desperate, I would join a Teams meeting to get a job.

(just in case someone is facing the same challenge and desperate enough for making an effort and not just simply sending the same pdf again, a headless LibreOffice command using infilter and outfilter options did the trick, while LibreOffice's UI didn't)

If you get bored by Docker, try NixOS

Like when the context menu does not open or you can't place text below a table? Of course, the system will freeze or crash eventually just when everything looks like it should after 2 hours of random trial and error. But that's just when editing content.

The real fun starts when you try to extend and provide new content modules for those systems as a developer.

everyone will be celebrated for becoming famous by engaging in shady practices, open ai is just a recent example, see Musk, see that other jerk running Amazon, see Jobs ...

don't know why Gates never made it into that thunk hero league, maybe the time wasn't right

@matthewbdaly and they introduced React in their block editor to get the worst out of both worlds

in public service, you might also deserve a higher salary just because you are older or have more kids than your coworker.

Every recruiter on LinkedIn: "here is a JAVA front-end position"

@Lensflare now I can't unsee this patter in our printer's blinking lights :-)

It's a trap question. Urban hipsters have no car (other than a campervan) but the most unpractical bicycle in a silly retro design.

Did you write about "Indians" again?

You should say "native Americans" instead!

a bit like those apparent conflicts

<<< main

++ "foo": "^1.2.3",

===

++ "bar": "^2.3.3",

<<< head

"baz": "~0.1.2",

<<<<<<< main

-- "version": "2.0.1",

++ "version": "2.0.2",

===

-- "version": "2.0.1",

++ "version": "2.0.3",

<<< head

(not the exact syntax, retyped from my biological memory, plus additional blank lines added by devrant on save)

@c3r38r170 but at least you will die a hero.

That kind of announcements has some similiarity with those one-time-usage-links mentioned in another rant: a preview should not cause irreversible actions.

@jiraTicket So essentially, one-time-usage-only-links should not exist for so many reasons, but most importantly they violate the Principle of Idempotence that should apply to all GET actions on the web.

@c3r38r170 shouldn't pull imply fetch?

unless it stops at its obscure message and doesn't update anything?

@Lensflare > @donkulator A company with only salesman, promising shit that they can’t deliver ...

... is every other successful Sillycon Valley "tech startup"

@jestdotty a company of engineers arguing about font choice all day, that would be a company full or designers or frontend developers

@asgs yes, but I had to search for the settings search feature :-)

@jestdotty that subsistence state is where modern capitalism turns into communism or what 20th Century states made out of it: provide a minimal living standard and keep the people occupied and distracted.

@jiraTicket never thought of that, but it sounds plausible. Maybe those links are only supposed to work in Outlook mail

Zero to hero tutorials are a flawed concept anyway.

Yes, billing by time is easy to communicate, and it gets easier the more hours or days there are.

Customers might argue about 4 vs. 5 hours, but usually they don't care much about 40 vs. 50 days anymore.

And, yes, when I' m in a project with low hourly rates, I tend to bill more hours to compensate for my underpaid but above-average service.