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Java, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML, MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP, Linux, Bash
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Italy

Joined devRant on 5/12/2018

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I've just received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter:
«Dear Sonia,
[the remaining part of the message is written in Italian]»

What's wrong with you, HR people?

rant i18n

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I had just started learning the MERN stack and they deprecated it yesterday. Perfect timing, as usual.

rant fml deprecated learning

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19

I've just had an embarrassing moment: discussing in chat with some colleagues I wrote Openshit instead of Openshift.

rant damn typos

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We have a huge codebase, built during the last 10 years, with a lot of problems caused by legacy dependencies. We are trying to modernize this gradually but it is very challenging because we have a lot of features to maintain and test coverage is low.

Today, a guy hired three days ago just proposed to rebuilt everything from scratch stating that he did the same thing in his personal project, so it wouldn't take too much to develop what we need.

Manager gently invited him having a quick call. I would pay to listen that conversation.

rant new hire wtf he has the solution

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7

Requirement: "Build teleport using a teapot and some tape"

Yesterday I spent most of my working day staring at the screen thinking about it, without being able to write a proposed implementation document. I felt the most useless person in the universe.

Me, today at daily stand-up meeting: «Honestly I have no idea on how to proceed, please assign me a different task.»
Manager: «Well, just think about it a bit more»

Great.

rant feeling stupid fml

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23

I woke up and discovered that one of my cats vomited over my keyboard during the night. «Meow, good Sunday human!». FML.

Yes, I cleaned it before typing this.

rant cat keyboard

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16

When you are searching a solution for your problem so desperately that Google sends you to the Russian version of Stackoverflow.com (and you don't speak Russian).

rant fml

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12

I've just opened LinkedIn (I don't know why) and I found an hilarious job offered in the home page: they are searching a JUNIOR programmer (for an internship) having experience in RPG IV programming language and OS/400. I never heard of that so I googled it and... LMAO.

joke/meme internship wtf is this hr junior when cobol

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39

Amateur astronomy, even if I'm no longer doing astrophotography. This is an old photo, I made this in 2010 (it's the Andromeda galaxy, an easy subject).

rant astronomy wk142

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46

YouTube comments, the serious ones.

random youtube comment wtf

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193

I tried to imagine how a Dev Genie could look. 😅

random wk141 devgenie

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!important

rant css wk140

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30

Every time some assholes decide to mix part of the business logic inside the presentation layer.

<body>
<?php
// Let's query the db here...
?>

<body>
<%
/* Hey, I'm a JSP! Why not defining some custom logic here, so nobody will able to debug it? */
%>

rant wk140

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16

Expectation: Today is the last day before holidays and yesterday I completed a complex task, so today I'll have a very relaxing day involving implementing only some simple changes.

Reality: I've just solved a dependency conflict between the project I modified yesterday and another project depending on it that caused the failure of some tests inside the latter panicking my coworkers who quickly asked me "WTF you merged in the core project!?!?"

Yeah, I really need these holidays.

rant holidays headache continuously fucking maven dependency hell

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96

Trying to login...
"Sorry your password is expired. You have to change the password every 60 days".

«Oooh, c'mon...» Inserting a new password...
"The password must contain at least 1 lowercase letter, 1 uppercase letter, 2 numbers and 1 non-alphanumeric character.

«Please, fuck off and die...» Typing again and eventually entering to private area...

My phone vibrate, there is a new SMS: "Your new password is H0lySh1t!"

WTF. Are you serious?

rant sms security password cleartext wtf

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An application based on a single MySQL stored procedure that contained all the application business logic inside of it (plus a poor webapp that simply called it). The stored procedure had 97 (yes, NINETY SEVEN) parameters... and about half of them were boolean flag used for enabling/disabling another parameter. I think that Uncle Bob could follow you holding an AK-47 if he saw that. The saddest part is that the shit was written by a guy having a PhD in computer science, and he knew that was bad, but the boss asked him to do it in that way. The guy left the company before I joined it and I had to maintain that crap. Guys, the first time I saw it I thought that should be a joke. Code generated by decompilers was easier to read, maybe even Brainfuck. I tried complaining with the boss but she said that the system was wonderful and very efficient. This was one of the reasons I moved to another company after some months.

rant stored procedure boss wk133 boss driven architecture

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12

!rant

For people like me, always committing on the wrong branch, this is fucking awesome:

https://github.com/jimeh/...

rant bash thanks branch git

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30

Recruiter of the day: "Hi [...] I think you will be very interested in <random startup name>. You will work on Digital Projects."
Oh, really?!? I thought I would wrote code on paper!

rant vagueness recruiter

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12

mvn clean install

Ok, let's go to prepare some tea...

joke/meme maven

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98

So you bought a new laptop... Really cool...

rant fucking ports

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9

I've just googled "git how undo amend".
I can't believe I was able to put a mistake over a mistake.

rant fml git

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12

Achievement of the day: breaking GitHub doing a forced push.
(Apparently I was able to create a kind of ghost commit that randomly appeared and disappeared from a pull request, plus other random errors 🤪)

rant breaking stuff forced push github

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!rant

This week I started a new job.

My role changed from "Full-stack-web-developer-sysadmin-DBA-helpdesk-strange-person-fixing-stuff-around" to "Back-end Developer".

Moreover, it's a full remote position (so difficult to find in Italy!), so:
1. I can wake up 1.5 hours later;
2. I don't have to waste anymore 2 hours every fucking day driving in traffic to reach the workplace;
3. I can use my fucking bathroom;
4. I can drink hot tea in August without being criticized. 😀

I'm fucking happy!

rant new job

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I've been very busy in the last weeks so I haven't read a lot about the recent "Linux CoC drama".

Now I'm reading what happened and, well... I'm disgusted.

Especially being a woman, I'm disgusted knowing that a group of people pretend to speak for me saying that we don't need meritocracy, but only more "inclusivity" (whatever that means). I don't give a fuck of your gender, write useful code and I'll appreciate you. And please, give me back the original Linus Torvalds: his irreverence made me laugh.

Sure, sometimes discrimination exists, however good companies will hire you if you are competent, no matter how you look. Instead, I encountered some incompetent women whining about "nobody listen to my ideas because I'm a woman". No, RTFM and maybe you will able to propose better ideas and people will listen to you.

rant coc linux shit sjw inclusivity fuck rtfm politically correct

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"This is not an application: it's a bug pretending to be an application." (This comment was left as an app review on Google Play Store)

rant wk123

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I'm moving some old data into a new database.

It contains some dates that *should* be in ISO 8601...

This is some of the trash that I found:
01/01/70
2010-11-05T08:06:48T08:06:03.7
2007-09-13T

Moreover, it has a column which *should* contains numbers, instead it has been defined using varchar, so it contains also some wonderful 'NaN' values.

I really would like to beat the person who set up all this stuff without some basic validation policies.

rant database validation tons of crap fml

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C'mon guys! 80 hours, 70 hours, 40 hours... Are you humans or fucking robots?
Once I stayed awake 36 hours helped by energy drinks and I could barely remember my name.
I can't really imagine how somebody could write useful code with such a huge sleep deprivation.

rant wtf wk121

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Ok, now I can go to bed.

joke/meme gitfiti

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This made my day: http://agilebullshitgenerator.com/

joke/meme 😆 agile buzzwords

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Many thanks MySQL. Really a good way to implement a driver. Go fuck yourself.

rant fml heap mysql outofmemory jvm big resultset

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