Saw this in some legacy code today at work:

Long sid = object.getSid();

Long returnValue = (Long) sid.longValue();

Never can be too careful I guess...
/s

You know, as much as I love computers and technology, I sometimes get sick of staring at a computer screen (especially at work). I just wanna hang out in a park and read a book, for as long as I want, while I relax to the sounds of birds chirping and the breeze of the wind as it brushes through leaves.

Linux system admins ping me, i'm beginner in this field and need few answers :)

Since I have seen a number of people ranting about their old rants and the new +1 threshold, I'm posting this to clarify.

In the rules you can see that a post counts towards a certain threshold if the rant was posted after the threshold became active. If the threshold was increased after you posted your rant, the previous threshold will still count for that rant.

Hope this helps.

Gah... Outlook just froze because it can't connect to the mail server.... While I was drafting a long email....

Hope it doesn't crash, hope it doesn't crash.... Please please please...

Reminder that the best way to speed up tar is to not use the 'v' option.

kindaRant();

Gonna give in my resignation in a few days with my collegue who is a designer (we have been hunted down). Worst is, we have to keep a good relationship with the boss (complicated) but eventually he will ask us to stay for the rest of the year. And believe me when I say, I really don't want to stay in this fuckshit longer than needed. Any advice on good tactics?

I won't give up on code, but I'll give up on the hope of getting a free DevRant Stressball.

When you have testing team ho can trust everything you say is a functionality not a bug !

Interviewer: Can you join in 10 days?
Me: what's the notice period of your company ?
Interview : Will let you know!

Sometimes I find myself asking myself out loud why I got an error.

Lead: "We write SOLID code"
Me: *opens a controller file*
Controller: "I'm 8000 lines long and hell yeah I'll access the database and file system directly!"