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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I present you the API I'm working with...
That's a pretty fucking useful error description right there.20 -
Best Valentine’s Day present ever! She knows me so well. This will be VERY useful in work.
Thanks @Number0, love you10 -
Now that's a good use of the accelerometer :3
Actually, maybe this would be a useful feature in devRant as well? 🙃15 -
Just realized I'm using an almost decade old Acer aspire laptop for programming. And its still useful because Linux.18
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I now understand the double tap feature. It's really useful when your reading devRant while eating.6
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Whenever I find a good github project I go straight for the "utils" folder to see if I can steal anything useful5
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"Make the feature more useful."
Please write a user story. It's hard to determine what you want.
"As Sales Agent I would like the <feature> to be extended so it's more useful to me."
(ノಥ,_」ಥ)ノ彡┻━┻3 -
Convincing my parents that I'm doing something useful on my computer and that it can also help me get a job5
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I download a lot of different stuff all the time. Often times I don't actually get around to cleaning it up. Thus, I decided I needed to build a script to further encourage my bad habits.
Here I've built a script for both Windows and Linux. It's designed to take all the files in the current directory and move them into their own folders based on their extensions. Why is this useful?
It's fucking useful when you're not having to swim through fucking mountains of content.
Anyways without any further ado here are the scripts.
Linux
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.*; do
filename=$(basename -- "$i")
extension="${filename##*.}"
extension="$extension"files
mkdir "$extension"
mv "$i" "$extension"
done
Windows
@echo off
for %%i in (*.*) do (
if not exist %%~xifile md %%~xifile
)
for %%i in (*.*) do (
if "%%i" NEQ "movingFiles.bat" move "%%i" "%%~xifile"
)15 -
Fuck yes for data hoarding! Wanted to start on a project again but thought I lost everything.
Code is sill in git, (took me a while to find but whatever) database is still on my own laptop (due to ex/importing my entire local host as for databases every time I do a new installation).
Let’s get this fucker going again 😎3 -
Oh, that feeling when you learn the entry level dev, with no useful knowledge, gets paid more than you...
Priceless...4 -
[Him]: Hey can I ask a quick question
[Me. ]: Of course!
[Him]: Why do you multiply the amount of timer ticks with 31000 to get the amount of nanoseconds here ?3 -
My first PR approved for open source community. WOW !!!
It's felt like heaven. I'm done something useful 😍3 -
Wk103 got to be the best weekly rant, it’s like everybody sharing a good quote about programming, and it’s useful
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Totally useful!
Master CS Degree.
More knowledge then most coders.
More knowledge on what’s going to come.
No ragrets 🤷♂️7 -
On Windows: Use Tools and scripts to stop/uninstall/deactivate functionality so that the OS becomes useful for me.
On Debian: Use Tools and scripts to start/install/activate functionality so that the OS becomes useful for me.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤭1 -
"… try to absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is essentially your own." - Bruce Lee
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Pro tip to scrum masters: bringing a scrum suitcase to your sprint meetings is more useful than bringing scrumbags.1
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I just trained a neural network to recognize if a word is uppercase. I'm sure it will be useful at some point.5
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Rage at ANY software installer that automatically launches my browser to a fucking webpage on completion
IT HAS NEVER BEEN USEFUL4 -
"Never trust a user or client, when dealing with 'bugs', always try to reproduce."
very useful advice from an old colleague1 -
Anyone starting with java may find this useful.
https://humblebundle.com/books/...
skrew it, i may buy it myself!!!6 -
Computer science doesn't just mean teach me how to use Microsoft office over and over... MS Access is not useful!!!5
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my 8 month old on her stroller at the grocery:
*cries in screaming*
*is scared of unrecognized faces*
every single old person we pass by:
let's grinstare this thing right on its fucking face.
baby: *cries harder*
old fuck: uh oh, time to go4 -
!rant
I love using DevRant and i am also a frequent visitor of sites like TechCrunch and ReCode. What other sites or apps would you recommend for devs or tech geeks??8 -
Best review I received for my app so far. It's a 2FA app, so basically every site where you enable 2FA tells you exactly what to do (scan the QR code)...8
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Wow @ewpratten and I just witnessed, for the first time in history, the GCC compiler being useful!5
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Finally found a client who thinks TTD and unit tests are useful ways to spend development budget.
Still expecting to wake up.3 -
I like obj c more than I like Swift. I don't know why and even tho it is the same API I find obj c more intuitive and useful since it is a strict superset of C and C is very useful.
Not to say I don't like Swift. I like it. I just have something against mobile OS APIs really6 -
Hmmm let me think ...🤔
Is there really a need to distinguish ? Are there any useful meetings out there?🤗1 -
Learn as many languages as you can as soon as you can, they said, it's the only way to get hired! Sure... I'll get awful at a lot instead of really good at one thing and actually be useful 😐1
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When Hackathon Hackers uses "node.js" so much that I'm not sure if it's actually useful or just a joke anymore....4
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Fuck NodeJS and Python, C# and strong-typing is all I need in life. (But python is sometimes useful)10
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USEFUL TIP
If you have a bad day or just want to increase you're happiness, go to this website
http://www.cat-bounce.com1 -
Just discovered that termux uses the volume down button as control... Mother fucker termux just became so much more useful!!!6
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Tiny CLI app to check the stats of a GitHub repo: https://github.com/klaussinani/rels
Found it useful to track my org's repos1 -
Going trough 4 years of college and getting a degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
As useful to me as Justin Bieber is useful to mankind.1 -
A side project of mine.
Useful for offline html, CSS and Javascript prototyping.
https://github.com/Bigalan09/...
Pull requests welcome!2 -
"Just because something looks good doesn’t mean its useful. And just because something is useful does not make it beautiful. " - Joshua Brewer2
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I think a "git commit -hide" option could be useful. To hide the author of the commit when you push dirty code.2
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Never programmed something useful because i have no ideas...
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Never used comments in my projects6 -
To date this is the most useful thing I’ve seen that appears to work whether it does or not I may never know
https://tinyurl.com/6zwn7hb3
What projects has everyone here seen that could be anything from proof of concepts or working applications and libraries that are actually USEFUL/FUNCTIONING not just CONCEPTUALLY useful in ML
Because none of the object classifiers I have seen look useful Half the time they miss things or get things wrong
However this project snakeAi I saw is a self training ml that plays snake until it can’t possibly do better and it works
The link above appears to work and be useful but I betcha it fails on backgrounds that aren’t so solid !
What else have you peoples seen ?
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Why is the most useful Explorer shortcut (rename element, F2) besides the least useful one (Help, F1)??
And why does Help open in the browser? Not the default one, but EDGE.
Fuck them. I'll find a way of disabling F1 one day...12 -
So the other day my car broke down and since the shop wanted a lot of money I asked a friend of mine who knowns his way around cars for help.
Just when we finished repairing it I was like "whenever the Zombie apocalypse starts you'll be really useful, me instead won't be since no one might need computers anymore" . His response was epic:
"Nah, you will simply build a terminator with your computer skills and it will kill all Zombies!"
Now I am actually looming forward to the Zombie apocalypse!
TL;DR: us geeks will build terminators in case of zombies!3 -
please for the love of all that is right in the world...name variables something useful. ll_j does not help me.4
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!dev?
It's getting cold now over here and all I want to do is sleep... I have no motivation to do anything useful (dev, useful reading) either, just binge watch TV...
So wondering how do you actually get shit done (stuff you should do but don't have to do)? Maybe it's the food related as well?7 -
OMFG! Another git gui? Better make one more calculator for this world. At least it could become useful somehow.2
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Never understood the hate for regular expressions, it's just one more useful tool in my eyes. Anyone want to weigh in?9
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Anyone else tired of the good old "Python 3.x will never be useful blahblahblah everyone uses 2.7 yadayadayada" bullshit?3
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Same as last year, make something useful
Also: it's been a whole year since then? Where did the time go? -
The Google Play Store sucks my ass with miracle whip. Want to find something useful? Too bad! Paid placement for you!4
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!rant
I personally love apps like devRant, Slack, github, etc
What are some other lesser known great apps for programmers and developers?3 -
Post useful information
Get downvoted
Ok I guess you guys can remain a cesspool then
How demotivating4 -
When's the last time your imminent manager actually provided useful guidance? It's been almost 20 years for me.2
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Time for a new programming language. LaTeX! It's definitely very different than what I'm used to, but very useful.13
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Yearly work review - when you have to convince your manager that you actually did something useful although he should already know2
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How can I be useful for the senior developer in my team?
I'm a junior developer and to senior developer I ask questions and do the delegated work. Are there other ways I can be useful to my seniors?
One of my seniors also mentors me I want maintain monthly 1:1s but not sure what to ask him each time.9 -
Internet Explorer needs to just die and go to hell where it belongs. Doesn't even give me useful console errors-_-2
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I want to read a good Software Engineering book. A modern one, which contains new agile approaches, useful diagrams, etc. Not the classical, not so useful, class diagram.
What do you recommend? I'm currently more into web and mobile apps, and I want to be able to describe my backend and frontend with useful diagrams which describe better to users and other developers my desired design. -
IDK why I get annoyed by underscores before private member names... Is i it useful or just an old relic?16
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Hello, anyone got any job search tips and tricks? Generally useful things?
Relevant: Part-time for under 18.3 -
Me: "ok let's have a look at this code I have to review ..."
try
{
* Some random unreadable overcomplicated shit code *
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// Useful for debug
}
😓
In which God forsaken crazy alternative universe, a "catch all" block that swallows the exception and does nothing else is even slightly close to the concept of "useful for debug"3 -
Thought I'd print a useful article on JS design patterns....
Looks like I'll be messing with the CSS for a while!1 -
Why such hate on internet of things? Sure, it's not revolutionary, but I can see it being useful now and then8
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OOP coder:
OOP is so useful and realistic!
Let me give you an example -> Cat extends Animal.
Every other coder:
So how is that useful in reality?
OOP coder:
...cat pictures?8 -
Anyone tried to create your own x window manager and/or screen driver? Can't find enough useful information on the internet.6
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Just saw that the University of Hawaii has a Collaborative Software Development Lab, I think that's one of the more useful things in university
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The ability to create something, something useful. Software is the intersection of artistry and invention. Honestly, why do anything else?
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Im trying to land my first internship for Software Engineering anybody have some useful tips or places to look?1
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Having developer skills comes sometimes in handy in certain situations.
In my case I visited a new website but first I had to choose their cookies.. but.. it was a list of about 150 radio buttons (150 advertisers), I shit you not.
And so I was like: "No, I refuse to click each one of them". I kept thinking.. hm.. how am I going to do a mass-toggle-off? And then it hit me: if the button "toggle all" toggles all buttons.. then that means if I invert the logic of the call, it means I will turn them all off! And it worked.. it was something like: "toggleAll(!-1)" and I did "toggleAll(0)".
That sure saved me some time! Oh yeah and there are of course other situations when you don't want to use a scraper for getting all the;. I don't know.. menu links out of a page. Console > import jQuery > select all elements with 'a' and text() on their DOM node! It can be done with native JavaScript as well document.getElementsById() but yeah, there are plenty of examples.
Hooray for being a developer!1 -
New forum post! "Here are some useful links:"
- useful link
- semi-useful link
- link to some random URL, hosting a PDF of the print view of a Wikipedia article, from 2007(???)5 -
I love the feeling you get when you absentmindedly discover a useful shortcut using your normal tools.
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!rant
Context = VS Code
What is your 'favorite/most useful/the one that saves your ass' extension for visual studio code6 -
!rant
Maybe a usefull function for the fellow developers here, in case you need default Avatars for your users. "UI-Avatars". Just 'discovered' this beautiful API today and it really is easy and helpful! :D It even has a PHP package if you would like to generate them yourself.. This is not an ad or anything, it's just a usefull API, like 'placehold.it' etc that could be useful for anyone out there! -
Question, !rant
To all my fellow Java devs, what are some things that have come out in JDK8 and JDK9 that you think are the most useful?
I know very little about the new features, but after learning about lambdas I wondered what other golden nuggets there might be. Thanks in advance!1 -
Trying to learn <insert name of programming language>...
Can't find any useful documentation or examples.2 -
Wrote a new article "Kung Fu Java". Hopefully useful for beginners and entertaining for all.
https://solothought.com/tutorial/...3 -
Being useful with what you do.
Do what you enjoy (rolling tables?).
Work somewhere, where the company cares about you. -
So, Dell's XPS 13 or HP's Spectre x360 13''?
Convertibles seem cool but I'm not sure if the feature is useful...9 -
I've been in a front end role for 8 months now and still the most useful skill I've learned is git lol
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Where have you learned "the useful" programming ?
I mean, programming math challenges and this stuff is really fun and makes you think about things differently.
But it's not useful(It very much is, I just mean that the output programs aren't). Where did you learn useful programming ? Like creating GUI apps and stuff like that.3 -
So, what are some useful / important Android and IOS apps for developers which can help them on the go?4
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Querying Active Directory limits result sets to 1000. Useful when working for an organisation with over 3000 people...
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Reasons, why I started programming:
- Wanted to create own websites
- Create useful tools for private use
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Why is it so damn difficult to come up with good project ideas that’s actually useful for other people?4
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Am I the only one that thinks that websites like dev.to are a huge pile of useless buzzwords and still less useful articles? I speak as a less-than-junior developer...
Just scrolled for five minutes dev.to and I didn't find anything useful nor interesting...1 -
can you share some interesting and useful topics for a web developer(PHP), who want to become nodejs based full stack developer?
udemy courses link will be useful.2 -
Ok - so we’re redoing the whole project / none of us are going to do anything useful - and the hard deadline is Friday.
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no ticket details
not giving me some useful documentation in our first conversation to clarify the ticket, that you have2 -
any open source web platform, for building a crypto community
built with nodejs+react will be very useful -
Markdown is useful for a quick note, AsciiDoc is useful if you want to go a bit deeper into customization and features.
But I find myself reaching for (Xe)LaTeX quite often once the document I'm trying to compose requires even a little custom content. Am I alone in this? What's your favourite go-to for quickly setting up not-so-standard documents?5 -
In your guys' opinion, what's the best services to run/hosting use of a Linux server? 🤔 I'm thinking of standing one up to tinker with but I want some useful functionality in mind before I pull the trigger.2
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Been using this to generate quick visual site maps for estimates n’shit, just thought i’d share
https://www.gloomaps.com -
how useful does a program that makes a new tor circuit to the website your on every 10 seconds sound devrant!1
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Something truly useful, where I get to know the users or even be one of them. Something challenging but not beyond my reach.
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Suggest a good framework name for nodejs? I made it for myself thinking to release it. Might be useful to someone.14
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Who's on the serverless / AWS lambda train? Can you actually do something useful and production quality yet?5
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!rant
Finally got around to trying out zsh. Any tips and tweaks people find too useful to live without?6 -
Has anyone experiences with hardware entropy generators like OneRNG.info? Any useful usage scenarios? VeraCrypt doesn't yet seems to support it.1
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eleventy localization still lacks good examples and useful best practice. Localizing symfony projects seemed way more easy and logical to me
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"What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful…" - Michelle Obama
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Thank you for sharing your information on useful issues, I hope to receive some new information here.1
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I created a few helper functions in bash sometime ago, maybe someone might find it useful
https://github.com/zombieleet/...