More and more I get the feeling that all that I do, is because someone expects "that" from me.

Our CTO is leaving, the CEO decided to seize this once in a lifetime opportunity to cut costs and we'll have to do without CTO.

There is no way this software development company will still be operating 9 months from now without a fucking CTO and I have honestly never seen such a blatant example of deep mental retardation, be it by a manager or by the endless supply of sycophants tirelessly endorsing the dumbest idea I have ever heard of, as if they're not going to be jobless like the rest of us.

Me: Buetooth has to be the worst moshpit of a standard!
USB-C: Hold my beer!

Horror Story Time:

Acouple thousand years ago, before the great plage and the rise of the machines I met the founders of a startup , they visited silico valey, one of them worked in san francisco, but they were struggling, So they fired the senior engineer who built their system, and decided to contract out their development.

Their system relied heavily on Location data, it was very central for their business and they used Google APIs, so a few months after they let go of the dude, google starts billing them. Founders did not want to pay so they contracted out a junior dev to fix the issue... And he fixed it.

On that same weekend they attended a big convention, invested a good chunk of money there, registration numbers skyrocketed, huge success. Come monday morning they call me on Skype.

There was no location data in the new accounts, zero, zilch, nada. The "fix" the freelancer did was disabling Google integration altogether, They never tested the stuff properly, just accepted the changes and went with it.

I don't know if they went under because of this, or if this was just the a part of the issue. But sure enought the company lasted less then a Year after that.

Once, we hired this one intern as a mobile games tester.

His first day on the job. He received his laptop for work.
He sits down by his desk, takes out his headphones, plugs them into the laptop, && starts playing his favorite music. _Now_ he can finally test the game in peace.

...the fuck?

I _get_ how testers can get sick of hearing the same crappy music, SFX, && other sounds listening to them day in && day out for days, weeks, months, etc. _This_ guy, however, pulls that shit on the first day?

Sadly, the lead either had never noticed that or had never taught the wannabe better.

Good thing !all testers are like that.

I know I'm probably the 1083742698574'th person to complain about this but what the hell? I'm building a Win 11 vm (to run a back-end service) and it _requires_ tpm, secureboot and drive encryption. Why?

Honestly, I don't like anything that going to make it harder for me to recover from a data emergency. Say what you have to about data security and whatnot, but I can't tell you how many grateful people have thanked me for taking the data off a drive from their dead pc. I saved their data from death - would not have been possible with drive encryption.

If I want my data safe, I'll just keep my computer with me.

you know... I've forgotten that I've seen modern warfare gore stuff and we first worlders complain about some dumb shit. d'oh

like can't afford food? lol. just normal day elsewhere

not pretty but guess it works. idealic world they told us was fake, we're a bit corrupt, a little tortured and warped, monkeys throwing things at each other rudely... but it ain't bullets (yet?)

I deleted my previous Rant. Lets try another way.

devRant is now literally dying. We need a new clubhouse. Please think with me, what are options?

What happened to devrant that it was down for basically a month or so?

they added decorators to JavaScript ಠ_ಠ

that shit is why python made no sense to me, and why I wanted to avoid spring in java

guess my standards are zilch now though. you say jump I say how high

let's make JavaScript look like java. thanks nestjs. I guess since people are using it. the hosting options / fees for these suck. ew lol

gonna just make something stupid with it, that won't be hosted anywhere because heroku banned me ages ago for having actually useful websites

ColdFusion is a bag full of pure, manure-reeking stupidity.
For example, some functions, like arrayIsDefined, return YES or NO - instead of true or false. I'm not kidding. Adobe == fucking lamers ? YES : NO. Definitely YES.

It's amazing just how bad Visual Studio/.NET is .. and the way this shop does stuff.

I was just copying existing projects and renaming/modifying everything for new tasks, but this time I tried to create a new project from scratch. No matter what I get:

Could not load type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RequiredMemberAttribute' from assembly 'NJsonSchema, Version=11.3.2.0, Culture=neutral

Everything has the right .NET framework. Dependencies look mostly identical to other projects. No one in the work chat has seen it before. I'm about to move this project to a tmp dir, copy and existing project, search and replace all the name, empty it out and copy my source into it. What you want to bet it will "just work."

I hate everything about Windows/.NET .. I'm glad I have a job again, but .NET is just so fucking painful. How has Visual Studio remained this bad for this many decades? I swear VS 2022 is just like VS6 with a fucking dark theme.

+ "Has someone tried to use AI to write code for a mod for this game?"

- "My stance is AI is a tool, to help you, don't expect to write the whole thing."
- "AI is very useful if you know how to code... I recommend learning coding."

??? How come I always find this kind of guys? Is this even being pedantic if they didn't even answer the question?
Makes me remember when I was younger and had to say "Java & ECMAScript" because saying Java & JavaScript in the same sentence would make unsolicited and misguided "corrections".
Fortunately there were some people that actually answered (before them, so they actually saw the question solved and still went to post that), but I still felt I had to clarify I'm a freaking software engineer, I don't have time to learn how to code for this specific engine for a shitpost mod. And what if I had time but still wanted to use AI? Rude, entitled... dummies.