My previous company that I ranted too much over recently released their AI product. They advertised it on their website with 3 testimonies; The CEO praising the product, The CEOs wife praising the AI suggestion and their freelance marketing guy praising it also.

This new feature/product is also advertised with an outdated screenshot of our product (it was redesigned twice by now) and the other screenshot is of a scrapped feature. At least they had 1 correct screenshot that was used twice in that webpage

Also, they forgot to attach the license billing to this new feature and lost 1.5months of revenue because of this :D

DevRant seems terrible slow. Wonder if someone is crawling/data mining it.

!dev Isn't it hilarious how some companies 'try' to look professional by dumping a bunch of stock images to present their brand? For example, a guy touching a holoscreen, or a bunch of overly stock happy corporate drones smiling and 'working' together in a 'meeting'.

I mean, it's sad. lol

Story Time:

In the late 90s , early 2000, I remember we had our first landline (phones where a luxury on our part of the world) , with that our first 56k internet connection.

I remember vividly waiting for 14:00 (02PM) so I could connect to the internet paying only a single "pulse".

Back in my tiny remote rural village in brazil, most houses where build by brick layers people hired directly and I lots of owners worked with them to speed up the process, run plumbling and
eletricity, paint and do the floors etc, mylate father included.

Being quite handy, he also did all the wiring for the landline and the for modem.

While he was handy, he was by no means an electrician, so one bizarro side effect for the amateur wiring was that whenever someone turned on the Shower, the internet connection would go down.

And for some bizarre reason, it was only the internet connection, while the shower was turned on, the phone would work fine... some years later broadband internet got widespread and it was unnaffected by the shower.

devRant users have to be the most committed people ever

Story:
Useful lesson I learned in a JavaScript book:

"Classes are abstract data types in the sense that they are a layer around the complexity (encapsulation). Their singular nature allows them to be reused without being rewritten everywhere.

A good analogy is thinking of classes as appliances; the complex circuitry and components that an appliance comprises of are made by different people than the abstract shell around these components, of which (another) team only needs to know which buttons to access which parts.
A class abstracts away the internal complexity (components) and only exposes a public interface (the buttons) that the user (yet another group, comparable to the consumer of the class) is going to use."

It reminds me of how Google uses the Facade pattern to only expose the search box and the button as its public interface and all the complex architecture is hidden away.

This helped clarify classes better for me.

7up decided to sponsor me. The randomness of a soft drink company wanting to sponsor a tech YouTube channel is making me laugh.

i earnestly believe it to be a fact that it doesn't matter if you have a team of monkeys or elite 100x "super rockstar ninja coders" (whatever that means). in the end the retard management will kill the project with their poor planning and watergile practices that will force even the toughest devs to pull their hair out and have a breakdown regardless of their skill level

we as devs have been complaining for years but management is either deaf or simply refuses to listen

the worst part is that we get blamed when inevitably the project does fail because of managerial stupidity smh

Wow, didn't notice at first! But devRant is fast again! After all those weeks. I really thought we were doomed now. Still, i did see lesser activity during the slow period, hope it didn't cost some members. Wouldn't be weird. I expect to end up alone here around 2050. Switched to apple, because Lensflare still updates his app. Still not accepting that his app became the official one. In 2050, dfox will have his pension maybe and devRant will be actively maintained again! Or he gives it to his grand kids.

It's still so amusing to me the amount of projects that are posted on /r/react, /r/angular or /r/sideprojects that are blatantly AI written and others that have their LLM API key exposed.

Years ago we had been developing a game for the handheld consoles. We were very young && inexperienced back then. Some more than others... Version for one of the consoles finally saw the light of day, while the other one was sadly canceled.
The development of that canceled one was very troubled.
One example of that would be the core team during the initial stages of the project. One fairly seasoned programmer... Yes - that's it.
Obviously he needed some help, so... the studio hired interns. Two of them, IIRC. One of the interns was put in charge of the game's multiplayer code.
He was ostensibly doing a good job, as the mode was working. Sure it needed some fixing && some tweaks, but it was there.
That is until it came time to check the platform's requirements by the testers. By the time they got their hands on the documentation, it turned out that the SDK used by the game had become obsolete && was no longer eligible for submission. Once the SDK was updated to a newer version, the multiplayer stopped working for some reason.
The issue was investigated which revealed that the intern who wrote the code had been using functions that were marked as deprecated && were no longer available in the newer SDK, explaining why the mode was FUBAR.
Moral of the story? Pay close attention to:
0. Interns,
1. Platform's requirements,
2. Changelogs,
3. Deprecations.

manager is realizing im dogshot at my job and slow, rip

They discovered that they can put features behind a beta toggle and now everything is half-assed and hidden behind beta ffs.

bug with no steps to reproduce

logs show null pointer exception but doesn't have a stack trace to point a bad line of code

fuck jersey and jettycounts

There's only so much Lo-Fi music one can take on a normal coding day.

github u absolute piece of shit let me see the exact day a version was tagged , i dont want to see 3 weeks ago, hovering and clicking doesnt do shit https://github.com/aws/...

After 3 months after leaving my previous company, I'm still getting SMS because someone included my telephone number in their automated test flow.

I would like to share this beta, and I will add that I am super grateful for devRant, but I wanted to have an online platform where I can live out my creativity and that I can use as a lifeboat at times when devrant loads in 5 minutes.

I have few things to complete before open sourcing it.

https://my.devplace.net/

How was DR in the glory days? I joined a few years ago when it was already was niche

devrant is so slow, it ain't fun anymore. Where is the community emo when you need him. He always knows how to contact dfox with effect. Don't see him much lately. Buba dreaming I guess.