How do you measure documentation quality? Do you think there's any way of making it objective?

- What's the mental image of a software developer in your country/region ?
- Is the shy nerd guy who doesn't talk to anybody?
- Why do you think is so?
- Was it your mental image when you started learning it ?

1. What do you think about this kind of companies that "teach programming" and students pay when they get a job ? Given the amount of information available on the internet, I don't think they worth it.

2. Have you heard about this one? Someone asked me, but after googling I didn't like it. Their curriculum looks like a collage.

https://www.holbertonschool.com/

News talking about fear among tech people due to lay offs...

Really? What do you think guys?

When your client is right and you're happy because of that.

Your company says that something is not possible just because they don't want to do it, and the client replies saying it IS possible and a way of implementing it.

Why do I always have to refactor bad written code ? Is this some kind of karma ?
Undocumented, written by a senior but looks like it was a junior, no unit tests, variables with meaningless names, duplicated code and every possible thing you can find in that kind of code.

Team: let's do "X".
Me: we couldn't do "X" because... We should do "Y".
Team: that's why we're saying let's do "Y"
Me: ...

What!!! What are they even thinking ?

Is it me or most developers just write code so it compiles and passes tests?

No documentation, no standards, no "good practices", no"good design", no software principles, no performance analysis, nothing.

No words.

How to exit the Vim editor.

VIm vs emacs

I feel stupid when I can't use VIM. Not sure if that's too bad or too good.
Do you feel the same? Writing jkhl in your code? Or :w to save your documents or emails?

Let me ask you something: why do most people prefer ms word over a simple plain text document when writing a manual. Use Markdown!

You can search and index it (grep, ack, etc)
You don't waste time formatting it.
It's portable over OS.
You only need a simple text editor.
You can export it to other formats, like PDF to print it!
You can use a version control system to version it.

Please! stop using those other formats. Make everyone's life easier.

Same applies when sharing tables. Simple CSV files are enough most of the time.

Thank you!!?!

Not sleeping (enough).

Receiving my password by email (yes, plain text) when I click on "forgot your password".

This is real.

String query = "select password from users where username = " + username;

My coworker "fixed" a bug. Then an issue was reported to me. He refactored something that we both used(And my code was already working right). I asked him about it. He didn't care about it and also was upset about my question. A question that I didn't ask in a "rude" way.. The worst: the refactor only required 30 seconds to do!!!

What!!!

Please guys if you refactor do it right or don't do it at all. Have a nice day

Found on telegram

Please add a `git log --grep=<pattern>` functionality to *devrant* ! Please. (Thanks in advance!)

That awkward moment when you're in the past (version [n-x]) and want to use something of the future but then you remember that it doesn't exist yet.

Thinking about how I found devrant. The only thing I can remember is, it was the only result Google found for a search. Feeling like Neo xD

Creating a json in Swift!? Not a joke. Real code I had to deal with... (just changed variables and text)

To branch or not to branch? (in developing software multiple features, releases...) (git)

I've been searching a lot of posts and info on the internet ( http://bit.ly/2kBLcar http://bit.ly/197szRP ). In summary, some people say it is better to branch and others the opposite. What do you think?

My conclusion was: let's branch but let's merge periodically to minimize merge conflicts.