I'll give you a +1, but the job your boss have is not to understand the complexity of your task, merely to assist, report and facilitate. Him asking "what's the point", though sounding ignorant, he's asking get to the point where you need to ask him for something. More time, training, etc.

Don't blame the boss for not understanding the problems faced during a day. It's your profession, not his. His profession is to aid you aid yourself.

Killing yourself would be a breach of contract :P

Oh ffs - this place is really becoming not-DevRant..

@bittersweet great rant, fully agree!

Problem is that thus place is now swamped with juniors or less - and not that it is a problem with that..

Most in here are web developers - mainly present, store data and present it again. Bugs are more trivial in those projects.

Get a lead enterprise system developer to write a rant about their system, now that's pretty much always highly entertaining.

A semicolon missing is a grain of sand worth in weight compared to the complexity, orchistration and bad architecture in a huge system. No central data store, messaging, service discovery and versioning, frameworks, duplicity etc etc..

New devs, small problems, senior dev, complex problems.

Sure, I've had a few semicolon issues with js, but that was because I didn't use my main, trusted IDE, which alerted me straight away.

IoT is having your fridge, stove, car, toilet, shower, lights, heat, door, washing machine subjugated to ransomeware attack 😁

Getting closer to becoming a Reddit channel day after day..

Guess "octothorpe" never caught praise and attention

Curse of the broken pinky swear

SOLID & DDD principles

Even in large codebases you have isolated subdomains. If you keep these boundaries clean and neat, it doesn't matter if it is a monolithic, SOA, microservice or nanoservice.

Why would you use 2 spaces instead of 4 in a tab stop? In my opinion, VS Code is just handling pebkac :P

Publicity 101

If you can flip media into a frenzy with just a mysterious X - you know you rule the world.

@Mitiko you can do machine learning in pretty much all languages

VPN and tracker blockers

That is top level delegation

bought a shitload on NAN's for my kids :P

Wow, the power of a rant. Just seconds after it started installing..

By realizing the people I conned to get the job was stupid enough to buy it..

As said above, read up on double/float precision, and it will make "sense" those results

I want to sleep, play with arduino, learn new skills, build a patio, finish my house renovation, travel with my wife, sleep longer that 7am in weekends, not having to vacuum the house three times a day, not having to clean up the fucking legos I always step on.. But kids..

Get your exams done. You'll have plenty of time wanting to do things that you can't later on :P

*munching popcorn*

@oscarascal I don't know the background around that picture, but their intent is obvious.

So Matlab is scripting?
And scripting isn't programming?

😂
I'll fetch some popcorn and watch this thread

The context of the joke is funny, but the picture itself is a display of anti-heroism and the flipside of human greatness.

@sam9669 geophysics research

Good one

lol - awesome story. Don't know if it's true or a gag on recursion, but good :)

Well, it's not dumb. Although it depends on the use case. Runtime cache would probably also be an alternative

Well, you are doing the right thing. What reports to give, should come from professor / manager. As long g as it's in ES, you've done well

You can't really hack a bank anymore, they utilize enough cold storage backups and write only discs that any transaction would be revoked.

The only way you can successfully hack a bank is through social engineering. Humans will always be the weak spot,... Not html..

You point at a big problem. The approach of finding fixes to hackjobs, instead of going balls deep into the tech you are using and being able to figure out yourself.

There should be a personal pride in solving a bug of yours without SO. Anyone else won't notice, but it would reassure yourself that you know what you are doing.