At first I was like: "wtf just happened? Why is that hand connected like it was a robot?".
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Then I realised it's ​a watch.

dude: hey could you hand me a patch cable ?

me: how long?

dude: as short as possible

me: sure buddy

😂😂

"Is that a script or a hand job?"

A friend's colleague (who's pretty bad at English) that refers to manually typing in to the console as "a hand job".

With a sock in his hand he said: "Giulio is a free elf."

When you decide to use a model for an engineering picture this is what happens. (Look at her hand)

I believe that devRant needs to have a scheduling feature that you can set your work time in it, so when your hand unconsciously opens devRant in that time, this activity pops up:

Interviewing a candidate for a dev position.

Interview is over and handshakes commence.

After the interview we have a debrief in a room that has hand sanitizer in it (just coincidence).

I squirt some and it comes out like a rocket ship; getting all over one of his resumes we printed. It looks like jizz...

One of the head guys walks in a says:

“I hope he didn’t hand you the resume like that.”

To which one of our ops people, let’s call her Sara, says...

“No, leanrob just REALLY likes his resume!!!”

> I almost fucking died from laughter

!dev

Knocked over a beer bottle with my hand and caught it mid-flight.

Felt like a fucking ninja.

No clue why I'm sharing this but goddamn that was good.

A friend bought a new expensive mouse.

I made the mistake of asking how it feels in his hand.

His response was "Heavenly. Like cupping an angel's ballsack".

Bob?
Yeah?
Bob, could you hand me that paperclip?
Sure mate!
Thanks.

Oh... Bob?
Uhhh... yeah?
Could you also hand me that paperclip?
Right... sure, of course.
Thanks.

Bob?
What?
Could you also hand me the next paperclip?
Fuck off, why don't I just give you the whole fucking box!

Yeah Bob, please, throw the whole fucking box.

Wait, is that a printed screenshot of my code you're attaching the paperclips to?

It sure is, Bob.

Is that a threat? "or else" 😆
Seriously Sololearn is getting out of hand ...

This month's expenses:
- Computer parts to build a new computer.
- Separate video card.
- Hex monitor stand.
- 6 (second hand) monitors

I'm so sorry for my bank account 😥

For those who were wondering, since my last post had some people who seemed interested, here's my progress on my 8-bit computer. I've got the clock on the left hand side, and the 2 8-bit registers on the right hand sign. (The power strips in the middle are going to be used as a bus)

Is "sleep-coding" a thing? Fell asleep last night on accident with my phone in my hand. When I woke up, I had typed a few lines of code in my sleep.

I have the habit of immediately closing parentheses after opening them, then insert the code.

The problem is, this applies to hand writing as well. Because you cannot move characters in a hand written exam I spend half of the time writing, then removing parentheses.
Whyyy brain

Bought a second hand coffee machine and went to get it by bike.

Put it in the back and drove home. It fell off somehow like a hundred meters before arriving home and its leaking now.

😭😞

Bought that server from a friend yesterday.

About to buy a second dedicated server (second hand) with 32gb's of ram!

This is getting out of hand 😅

Team meeting, discussing current project task, dude just slammed his hand on the ground and screaming like a child that he needs help and his taks is more important than others

Fucker got fired 7 months later, took long enough

So a car hit me while I was riding the bike back from work and I fractured my collarbone. And I have to wear a sling on my left arm 24/7 for 4 weeks now.

But that's not the worst part.

Coding with one hand is.

its amazing how far technology has come. I can edit a hi-res image in real time with a computer smaller than my hand.

You know you've become a dev when standard keyboard left hand position is no longer wasd

My co-worker is now raising his hand before asking me a question : success.

So I'm very much not a fan of apple and their products.

I bought an iPod Classic (160gb) today (second hand)

I was literally standing there wanting it while my ethics tried to withhold me from buying it 😅

We hired a developer and he has very minimal experience. I feel most of our conversations end up going something like this.

New Guy: I'm not sure how to do this obvious task and I'm incapable of searching Google.

Me: Give me your hand so I can hold it and walk you through the process of copying and pasting code from stack overflow.

New Guy: Ok...give you my hand...right...how do I do that?

FML

So I've developed a nice looking website for a client after designs were approved and what not. After seeing it in the flesh, the the client is now trying her hand at redesigning it herself in WORD. I am so done.

!rant

I managed to do a chunk of programming in class today without my partner to hold my hand through it. It may be simple, but I am proud of it nonetheless.

Yesterday my friend told me that he bought a second hand laptop of dy. I was first shocked by the name but later i got it.

Instead of a loop, he wrote it by hand line for line... My eyes man... My eyes...

What do you do when you buy a second hand netbook and want to play with it in your way home but the internet is veeery bad?

You play Tetris on the terminal! \o/

Reason #387 I wish I worked from home:

Some dude at this office needs to be banned from toilets. I'm pretty sure he craps in his hand then tries to swat it into the bowl with a slotted spoon.

When you build a beautiful set of Sass files with grunt/gulp tasks, hand it off to another developer who makes all their changes in the compiled css.

If you're a programmer & are happy

Please stand up, or if you're lazy , have your hand up 🕺

Saw an if statement like this in a hand me down company project:
If(!x && !Y && !Z && (A || (!B && C)))

When you ask for documentation and they hand you a Word document with screenshots of the changed code

R.I.P. mx1000 laser, 2005 - 2017

I feel at a loss, like losing my own hand.

After the face reveal and the hand reveal... Let's do something spicier! 😉

Guys, post a pic of your "private member"...
Gals, post a pic of your "closure"... If you know what I mean 😏

Mine's in the comments

On my way to buy a second hand Oneplus One!

I don't think that not being able to remove Google services from my phone because this phone isn't supported by open source roms is a valid excuse anymore, especially since the new dutch surveillance law goes into plan the 1st of May.
I don't have that much money but I can afford this second hand device right now so let's do this.

Will install an open source rom without Google apps onto it!

When all the codes hand you migraines, I say buy a 43" UHD Monitor

Job interview just made me realize I can't write a working line of code without IDE holding my hand ffs...

At this point I think the "algo" is a secret team that's being held hostage and forced to sort the rants by hand 😂😂

When you're approaching a deadline and your cat likes to rest her head on your wrist while you code and its making your hand cramp but you don't want to make them move because it's the first physical contact with a living being you've had all day. ;_;

When a programming teacher gets you to write out code by hand and then says "pretend to run it"

I've been coding for the last 19 Hours (not including break), and now I am starting to get hand seizure, my finger just start cramming for no reason.

i need a doctor

@elazar wanted a hand reveal, so there you go. Remember the devRant gang sign like so:

"Whenever a user creates their account, they get an email with their password. We also get a copy of said email which makes it easy to troubleshoot any issues when they ring us." -- I was so tempted to hand in my resignation on the spot...

writing an assembler for my compiler, Manticore.

Currently working on writing a hand written parser and parse tree node system.

Today our manager agreed on buying a second hand server for the development team to play around with and run personal experiments.

We found a dual cpu (6 core 2.8 GHz) system with 24 gigs of ram.

Let the fun begin!

Fell asleep with my hand on the keyboard and woke up a few hours later. There was many thousands of newlines in my code.

I feel like a soccerplayer without working feet

Every time I have to deal with my boss code and lack of convention and everything that makes a clean code I just want to scream like a bitch and punch him in the face without minding breaking my own hand.

So my Internet was down the entire day
*opens laptop
*realizes no internet
*closes laptop
*repeats this the entire day

After a point it becomes involuntary. My hand just automatically goes to the laptop

Honestly, I have a love/hate relationship with coding. On one hand, I can feel on top of the world when something works the way I want it to. On the other hand, coding can make me feel more incompetent and depressed about my life than anything else. I would never want to do anything else with my life, but it's really tough when the thing you love is also the source of a lot of self-hate.

Client has a hand drawn logo. Which is really bad.
We build a website with the same concept.
Client keeps telling us the website doesn't look sophisticated enough.
How do I tell them it's the childish logo?

Just bought my first physical server for a cheap price second hand. It's a low end thing but hey, you've got to start somewhere, right!

When you're a fourth semester Java student and decide to try your hand at making an android app... Only to find that it involves almost none of what you've learned so far.

*windows update gets stuck on a black screen*
MOTHERFUCKING WIND-oh wait it rolled back the update and booted fine on its own.

Hey, progress.

Gotta hand it to whoever at Microsoft implemented this, was smooth af.

When left hand feels itchy because you may have copied something a bit ago and never pasted it, but now you don't know what or why

OCD and multiple developers on a project never go hand in hand

meet the new PM
go to shake his hand
he throws a "fist bump"
i change to "first bump"
he changes to hand shake...
can already tell that we will not see eye to eye in many things...

On websites: "I don't want to see an arrow cursor on the buttons."

On desktop applications: "I don't want to see a hand cursor on anything!"

Need my vaccine receipt to go to a wedding. And I’m in line to get the pdf document. On the one hand this is some cool implementation for a load balancer, on the other hand this so strange… be online in a line to get a document -.0

You know you need sleep when you wave your hand under a paper towel dispenser and it's not automatic.

I ordered a second hand mini laptop. (Mini as in 8 inch)

Now I obviously will put some kind of Linux distro onto it but I'm wondering which one I should choose.

Debian based is a must, except for that I don't know yet.

Ideas?

My father is a programmer by himself so he is cool with it. My mother on the other hand is totally against "any form of technology newer than the telephone." (her words)

My piece of shit boss saying "I missed you" after I was off for some time.
POS because he threatened to fire me and I didn't have a strong hand so I went along with that mobbing...

Fuck, accidentally reported a rant because my hand was resting on the fucking report button.

Shit, and sorry to the comment's author!

Need to send a mail to a more senior member of the team. Could use a hand translating the below into something more work appropriate.

"You have reached a new level of wrong, you insufferable prick, please just shut up and leave"

Hold yourself, this may be controversial.

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I prefer to write CSS by hand instead of using a framework like Bootstrap because at least I know the way I'm fucking up my page layout.

...

I am gonna hide under a blanket now.

Staying up late night and sacrifice on sleep to complete the task at hand. A good night's sleep will result in good quality code.

@dfox what are your plans for devRant? Usually such communities get way out of hand with spam as it grows beyond a certain level? How will you keep devRant safe?

Working with assembly is just something different... note to self: keep a cheat-sheet with the labels and corresponding addresses at hand.....

Got postblocked on Facebook for saying a certain video (which shows useless "self-defense techniques") is the cause people are trash at hand to hand combat :D

30 days of not telling random people they are idiots, FML

i find when your having a slow day, or just don’t have the motivation to deal with the current task at hand, picking up a side project and working on that keeps you going.

either that or automate that crappy task you do at 9am every day!

Programming while being sick was not a good idea.

That git reset --hard on the other hand was

Every sacrifice you make for your job will be forgotten in a minute and won’t be rewarded unless you force their hand.

Luckily, I outsourced this experience and have never made sacrifices.

Phones are getting bigger screens but also heavier. Why can't they just make a mobile phone that fits nicely on one hand and doesn't weigh like 1/4th of a kilo (phone+casing+screen protector).

ESET Antivirus is a strange animal. On one hand, it seems reasonably well written, because unlike Norton or F-Secure, it doesn't subject your computer to death by constant disk access and 100% CPU load for 10 minutes when you start it.

On the other hand, when I clicked the link in the mail about renewing licenses and filled out the form, I was not redirected to a page where I could enter credit cart details.

Instead, I got message that some representative would get back to me in 1-2 work days. Eh, what? It's a digital product for f***'s sake. Now, I suppose they'll send me a hand written letter (written using a quill, no doubt), delivered by a bloke riding a horse and wearing a tricorn.

Well, at least ESET virus definition updates are pushed on the internet, and not sent out on 5.25" diskettes.

Programming and listening to music go hand in hand a lot of times...

i went to my college bakery and i bought a sandwich (costs 140) and ultra energy drink (costs 90) in my currency

i extend my hand with money and the woman takes a calculator and types with one finger 1 4 0 + 9 0 = and says "230"

Just me that really want's to get an RFID implant? Seems so usefull to just tap your hand against a sensor to login 😍

!dev

Got me a new mouse pad since the only one I had was branded with my last jobs logo. Mordor is right where I usually rest my hand so it will eventually get dirtier and therefore more evil.

Sometimes, when bugs get a bit out of hand... You have to counter them with better debugging methods 🐥

Being woken up in the afternoon by a client phone call, mouse in hand and a long line of spaces in your code. The benefits of self employment.

I decided to start learning go yesterday.
I had a Fun little automation task at hand and got to work...

The next time I checked the clock it was monday 02:40 AM

Getting up at 06:10 was hard...

How many bones are in the human hand? A handful of them.

I can't wait until I hand in my resignation to become a pen tester, I'm interviewing next week! I'm done with development. Don't really have any message here, but felt like sharing it regardless.

!dev
What I feared is happening.
I will barely see my gf for some time (until summer).

I just feel like crying, wanting to do a lot of things with her, barely getting to do so.
On one hand, I have a gf, on the other hand, fuck my life for worsening good things that happen to me.

P. S. if any of you fuckers unironically complain about the fact that I have a girlfriend (and you don't), go to hell

After you brainstorm on a white board, take a photo, and clean up after yourself.

Coworkers were complaining about dried white board marker.
I told them to use the hand sanitizer from the bathroom, it will clean off all marks.

Now you know too.

Had to adhoc re-record couple sponsored TV-ads' voice overs and didn't have time to get to a studio.. True engineer always finds a way to make most out of the resources at hand.

Excellent sound btw, good mic + non-echoing 'recording chamber'. ;)

Just wrote a script that takes anything correctly tagged and pushed to master from gitlab, pushes it to the server, builds a jar and creates a docker image from it. On the one hand I'm happy that I don't have to do it from hand anymore, on the other hand I get the feeling I'm automating myself out of a job...

"Hmm, I have one hour left to hand-in my complete program via Moodle. I can still do something.
Let's implement a cheat when a user types 12oatmeal at the menu."

Every time I come back to Java:
"Oh man OOP is fun"
A few days later...
"This stupidly verbose, hand-holding garbage."

fucked up my hand, spent entire work coding like on a typewriter.

for those who want to know, dropped coffee dripper on my hand, full of hot water. it was a first degree burn thankfully, water wasn't that hot. hurt like hell at first, but it's much better already. by monday I'll be ready to be fully exploited for my work again 👍

My former housemates had a cat, they moved out and took said cat. Cat had fleas which I wasn't informed of.

Cleaning out the now vacant room with a can of flea spray in hand I utter:

"Now, my uninvited friends, sooner or later, even if I have to do it individually, by hand at times, I will find you all and I will squash you for I am a software developer and I deal with bugs all the time."

Got a proper mechanical keyboard for work instead of that nasty third generation hand-me-down cramped layout crap they gave me. I also got a small plant for my desk. Fuckin fantastic.

Recruiters who cold e-mail me get hard and specific questions before I ever give them a resume and phone number. Been doing this too long to just randomly hand a resume and contact info to whoever. YOU came to ME. Make it worth my while.

White ones are hand made stickers from my gf as a present. Their cuts are kinda messy because of I literally messed up while cutting but i think i really liked them.

Not sure if I'm going crazy or my spacebar is full of static 🤔 is that even a thing?

Anytime I move my hand pass the spacebar I get this tingly feeling.....

In 30 years... this is a new!

So I'm developing a push-pullet application for elementary OS and it's called Eleanor, off hand mention the name to my partner and she says she understood what it was... Think I dodged a bullet with that one!

Had this life not turned out the way it is. Had you not been a dev, what would you imagine you would have been?

I'll go first.. i would probably have been a librarian or a security guard. Someone with lot of time at hand to read.

Went into a room that hasn’t been visited in a while.
I decided to clear up some space and see how dusty it was.
Naturally I use my hand to take the dust off the table.
My hand is covered in dust.
Because of the absence of a trash can, I have no choice but to open the window and throw the dust outside.

I open the window; a gust of wind rushes inside, blowing all the dust in the room.

Smh.

Just had a CS test.

I absolutely annihilated my hand and those questions. It went so fucking well. I was allowed to take pictures of my answers to check if they were correct at home. I’ll include them here.

Nice start to the day, I actually had to use science to open a milk bottle:

Problem: Cap doesn't turn no matter how hard I try

1. Increase the grip strength without hurting my hand by placing a paper towel between my hand and the cap

Still won't turn

2. Run hot water and place the lid area under it for 20s

Repeat #1, it now works!

@dfox Could we also get watches on the right hand ? I've been wearing mine on the right hand ever since I've started wearing a watch and I feel awkward wearing it on the left :)

on one hand- got a new job, on the other hand getting a new MacBook pro just before they release a new generation

"It is not an issue of which language is the best in and if itself. Rather, it's a question of which language is right for the job at hand" - Herbert Schildt

have a break, have a pancake! home made, hand made ( no robots were harmed during the process ), eastern european ( balkan ) style

Our agile scrum team has finally shattered into two parts.
On the one hand we have front-end guys.
On the other hand we have backend- /dev-ops guys.

The FE guys don't care about the BE guys business.
They don't join pairworking and only noticing things that went bad, when a Backend guy has caused it.
Goodbye fullstack dev-ops team...

I really dislike that arrogant basterds.

Frontend Hobo-Bitches...!

Coding for MCUs gets more and more surreal every day.. On one hand we're cooding oldschool heavy metal C or C++, but on the other hand they tell you to use PuTTY to check if there is a working serial connection - what the fuck?

Also the IDEs they suggest you. VSCode or Eclipse. Both are so unbelievable unusable for this, even with plugins, I would compile this shit via CLI myself before using them.

It just feels so contrary - they act like professionals and just spit out 200 uncommented lines of C to start WiFi on the ESP32 - not explaining a single fucking thing, but on the other hand, they checked the connection via PuTTY after writing some uwu kawaii shit into Eclipse.

Not to mention Arduino with their FUCKING SKETCHES.

It's 8am and the server is down... Legit rant right? Sure, but it gets better. One of our buyers in purchasing printed out a 504 error and hand delivered it to my counterpart in our northern office.

Can the devRant team move '++' and '--' to the right side of the post? I'm feeling it really hard to upvote the post while using my 20:9 aspect ratio phone in one hand.

- sincerely a first world user problem

while writing a software for records compilation for a high school, the principal asked if the software would be able to mark the answer sheets from the students,

I'm taking, non multiple choice answer sheets.
hand written.

how?

It's official, I don't remember jack about Windows anymore. I tried to install a Windows only emulator to try my hand at homebrew. And... this is the final result.

Very conflicted about ProductHunt.

On one hand, love seeing all the new little productivity tools and SaaS tools with really nice UI. Fairly inspiring.

On the other hand, sometimes they can be complete cringe over there. It almost seems like a cult sometimes and they are way too enthusiastic about even the most boring things

ProductHunt: "This new productivity tool 🚀 will absolutely 🎉 change your life 😛. it is DISRUPTING 💪🏼 team management."

Im petting my cat with my left hand and browsing Devrant with my right. Its super hard to get back from a rant. Pretty please devs of rant make swipe right and left on rants leave/enter?

I think I've reached the point where I've been programming for so long that I have off by one errors doing normal math by hand. Nothing more humbling than getting beat out to a bunch of simple math problems to a grade schooler.

In every company, there are those non-tech people who try to come up with creative ways to make us not do any work: useless meetings, stupid company activities, "initiatives" cause,
"Gohd! you have to take ann iniitiative".

Okay, I get it. You have a lot of free time on your hand and wanna seem busy. I, on the other hand, want to finish my tasks, get paid, and get on with my life.

hey is there a non code browser automation tool? one with a record and play button?

I have to "copy / create" 16 drupal pages with a gazillion modules manually by hand. And each page takes an hour of tedious click work.
Thank you for your help ❤️

Update...
The battery did explode and i went to AE, I have to wear a bandage on my arm. Best of all, I can only comfortably code with one hand. Aren't I lucky?

A bunch of pictures of friends, a train dev duck, a wooden train toy, a pair of demon horns, a tiny hand

On the one hand I really wish there was a good open-source self-hosted file sharing and collaboration service which made use of modern web technologies to provide most of its features inline as well and not just through APIs consumed by client applications.

On the other hand, I tried writing a WebDAV server once, and I fully empathize with the people who have to deal with this madness.

Don't poor a drink/juice while coding next hand

Found this on the bottom of my monitor. I think it might have quite a nefarious past. Bought second hand too.

Today I spilt a glass of water onto my palm. As I was shaking the hand of a senior executive. He looked at me in disgust as our hands squelched together.

Whenever Google alerted me that "a new device was used to access your account", I always hear Skyrim's Meridia voice in my head:

"A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"

I've been up for more than 24 hours and I've a project to finish by Friday evening.

On the other hand, I've a complaining gf.

I have a hand thrown ceramic mug, a scratchpad, and a kuru toga mechanical pencil. I keep a plant when my desk is large enough. Less is better for me.

WRITING CODE ON PAPER...smh

I know many people wrote about this already, but writing code on paper is one of the worst things of a CS class. I’d rather get a computer with no internet access and use a notes app to write code instead of having to write everything by hand. It takes so much more time that you could spend thinking about the problem. Not only that but also my hand gets tired of writing...ughhhh

I need to convince my teacher and the school to switch to writing code on computers! I will not loose this battle ahah

If there was an anime Based on developers.

==Start===

Dev : here comes my favorite browser.
Mouse : No, not until I'm here.
Hand : whattttt? What's happening??
Mind : oh NO!! I why's Internet Explorer is loading?!?

Faster Mind : it's mouse, he's behind all this. Only he's powerful enough to pull off something like this.

Time : Developer-san SAVE me!!
IE : it's too late now, if you do anything it will just slow everything down!!! Hahahah

Dev : No it won't, don't ever underestimate a true developer. It's not over yet!!
*Some keyboard key combination

Time : *screams* developerrr-saaaan!!
Hand : wait, I know it, it's happening. We can still save Time-chan.

IE : WHAT!! No, it can't be!!

Dev : here comes Ctrl+Alt+Del. Be gone....

IE : Nooooooooooooo, this isn't happening, Aaaaaa *dead*

Hand : we did it!!!

📋A hand-curated collection of useful and informative Swift Scripting materials.

Developing a clothing shop and being bored. Adding clients like Napoleon Bonaparte with the comment that this person is missing a hand.

Today, I fell for a prank that someone tried to pull on me several years ago that I was too smart for at the time.

I was told that it was impossible to crush an egg with one hand. I knew that was nonsense so I never tried. This morning I was feeling adventurous so I tried it.

As it turns out, it is definitely possible to crush and egg with one hand and that when an egg pops, its contents get all over everything.

My thumb hurts / is exhausted from lots of typing (phone) and writing (school). Any tipps besides seeing a doctor? (I will if this bug isn't fixed 'till friday or so)

my hand is becoming a bottleneck.

it used to be slow device. upgraded.
it used to be mouse & IDE. upgraded to nvim.

now. my wrist gets sore.
waiting for Elons brain computer interface.

Seeing devs having only a hammer in their hand is making me sad. At least don't talk bullshit about things you don't understand or haven't tried... Most of the front end devs at my company are like that.

Cleaning up a CSS file that was becoming out of hand... Found this gem:

.main-content .panel-body .alert {
margin: -19px -16px 20px -16px;
margin: -19px -16px 00px -16px;
}

The best part is definitely the feeling when you complete a project and you get something from it.

On the other hand everybody assumes you know how to repair a computer xD

I broke a bone in my hand yesterday and now my hand is in a cast. fuuuuckkkk...

my wife is setting up her new phone that arrived today. maybe i am a bit jealous. on the other hand i dont know how using devrant, reddit and duckduckgo justifies a new phone. better save this for my dream computer.

We have a new team member in our team. So I was giving her one to one KT. After KT

She: so are there new changes coming soon?

Me: Yes there will. Now you here I could really use a hand.

She: that's what he said

#1 hand in my notice
#2 start my own company
#3 enjoy work
#4 make a metric shit-ton of money (contributes to previous point)

After javascript, coding in C# feels like I have to communicate with a deaf person with using only one hand. :D

Was bored af with assignment at hand. So just went ahead and wrote a class to implement Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat. XD

Just arrived at NYU hospital for a 3 days of medical exams. While walking in from my nice day in NYC I get the feeling like I'm turning myself in at prison....

Then on the other hand compared to work... I'm on a 4 day vacation...

Have a contractor on at work who hand writes minified css. Counting down the weeks until that contract isn't renewed.

Disclaimer!!!
Do at your own risk.
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- Take a strong magnet, like a neodymium magnet.
- Hold it in your hand.
- Move your hand across a Macbook 15"'s keyboard. Say from left to right or vice versa. Almost touching they keys.

You'll see the screen dimming. If you just hold it there for a little longer, it'll lock your macbook. It's funny, but I am not sure if it's doing some damage to hardware.

Do cartoon characters with four fingers per hand (and assuming only two arms) naturally think in octal? Or is it just a happy coincidence that humans developed base 10 because we (normally) have 10 fingers?

god damn it c++, you and your ambiguous, contextual grammar!

currently working on a c++ and c parser, went from trying to use a parser generator to now writing a parser by hand.

Attended a game workshop session by Mark Skaggs, creator of Farmville. At one point he asked all the programmers to raise their hands. I love to code even though i aint an expert in backend db related code. I raised my hand. Then he asked all the designers to raise their hand. I love to graphic design as a hobby even though i aint an artist. I raised my hand again.
He noticed and said "Interesting..."

It made me question which trade i should focus more on. I still have years ahead to master them but should i give up one for the other?

Would be cool to hear your thoughts on this!

so what's on the list for today? writing unit tests for a broken php app because NO ONE THOUGHT TO WRITE THEM BEFORE HAND.......

A Chinese coworker who always brought a tea flavoured hand lotion bottle and applied it before coding on his finger tips and wore the same clothes from Monday to Friday changed only his shoes...

Best work I have ever done was done on a beach, in a lounge chair with a beer in my hand and laptop on the lap.

!rant

For the first time ever I actually did well on a Computer Science test. I didn't even hand it in with any errors. It's the baby steps of progress that make me feel pretty happy.

To be able to actually write useful tests BEFORE starting to code, which I guess is really asking for the ability to have a clear set of requirements and a complete mental model of the problem at hand

Twilio's API docs suck.

Why can't they just provide a simple API reference will all the endpoints and parameters instead of some hand-holding tutorial with a helper library.

What would be the best "hot"/upcoming languages for a final year college project?

The project will focus on reverse engineering.

Basic Example: Intercepting signals from products such as a toy helicopters/drones/etc, reverse engineer the signals and try gain control of the device from that.

That's just a very basic function and there will be much more to it, but I'm struggling to decide on a language to pursue hand-in-hand with this project!

I hear Rust, Go, Julia and co being tossed around a lot.

Any suggestions would be helpful!

Cheers

CPU time? Wayland, or Linux.

I/O? Firefox or VSCode. If I'm pedantic about not counting dispatch as usage then VSCode because Firefox is just a mediator between me, the OS and the webapp at hand.

Identifying when to start a project over because it has gotten out of hand with workarounds and memory management issues.

Was wondering, how dfox and trogus did it?
Was going through top rants of all time, and they categorized correctly, did they do it by hand?
I only checked first page, but that is a lot of work to do if they did it by hand

my wife just got a request from a specialized search engine for her custom site to be crawlable. on the one hand it might help her gain visitors. on the other hand i now have to look at wordpress and might have to adapt to its standards. meh.

So someone just beat my highscrore i held for over 2 years in a game I release on Google Play. On one hand I'm happy some put a lot of effort into playing my game😆, on the other hand I'm sad I no longer have the highscrore😢...

I'm gonna be job shadowing some programmers to see what it's like first hand in the field soon! Its my senior year and it'll count as a field trip for my school so I won't get counted absent!!

An 'older' client, who is a respected doctor, needed a web site to sell a book he authored about cycling trips.

Simple... I thought... Until he literally sent me all the content.. hand written... on pen and paper... via snail mail... Along with barely legible Hand-drawn maps... fml

It's a shame how you as a freelance web developer complete a project and hand it over to client and you check it over and over and you never find the client use the project.

It hurts my feelings really really bad.

Project 1: A hand hygiene monitoring system intended for the NHS.

Project 2: A language analysis platform.

I genuinely start off with good intentions for the client by trying to create a simple responsive website for them. What they want on the other hand is fancy images.

Started out with python, while meaning to learn javascript.

I am now competent in python. Im still not sure how it happened.

Started python because I got tired with doing repetative calculations by hand. I think I had like a phobia of problem solving with nested loops. any time I thought a problem would require nesting, especially more than one nested loop, I would just avoid doing it, or end up doing it by hand.

Wrote so many goddamn loops though in the process of exploring graphs, doing things by hand seems like a nuisance. Thinking in loops has its own zen or something.

Now I just need to get over my fear of json-based CLI-enabled configuration-over-convention.

Do you ever set up a project too small to justify using any real framework and you end up creating .gitignore by hand and typing 'node_modules' in it like a caveman?

Start a business, it'll be fun they said. One of those days you'll realise that you're in a situation where you'll have to fire a friend from your engineering team, there's no way around it..

People keep on thinking and saying
"You're so lucky, you can choose the clients and the team, and work whenever you want to.."

Yep. Highest highs and lowest lows go hand in hand. Thank god there's both.

Ladder to success - everytime you write a successfull code and it doesn't compile slap yourself so hard that your hand debugs that code automatically. I am red.

Developing IoT prototype, from Linux platform, via Java servers to front-end web-ui has made me fear and praise all these JS developers.

On one hand they are the heroes of modern technology, on the other hand they are bat shit crazy sadomasochistic lunatics riding their frameworks through a sea of users complains and runtime errors

When the idea of a split keyboard is awesome but you've programmed your brain to type "b" with your RIGHT hand....*face palm*

!rant

I love that you can type the word "test" with one hand. Makes testing form inputs a lot faster.

Went for a hand surgery, the anesthetic doctor is learning swift and then he put the needle in the wrong hand.
Lesson learned: never trust a programmer with your life

I'm torn on dev bootcamps.

On one hand, I learn the most in hands-on direct tinkering and bootcamps tend to exude this with well-trained instructors following best practices.

On the other hand, the short timeline means corners are cut and an overwhelming amount of material is dropped all at once leading to a leaky retention vessel at the end.

I prefer ramping up learning over a period of time to gain experience than a fire hose approach.

Hand-coded or drag-and-drop web design do you prefer? And why?

I have been hand coding for a long time since I started programming. In fact, HTML is my first 'language'. I found that it is very slow to code compared to my normal friends who use Wix - which makes me consider a change.

Plus, I am not very good at designing.

I like it when our developer goes out to meet the customer himself for on-sight support. He gets a first-hand experience of CustomerRant

--------Teenager Dilemma-------
When you got homework to do in one hand,
And at the other to go and write a program...
Hmm... 🤔

Hiuahuuhaei we can't even coordinate a fucking simple web app and they wants us to use neural networks to identify super fucking hard stuff that is hard even for people to do by hand 😂😂😂😂

tester reports a bug to developer, developer corrects it and generates another bug and hand it over to the tester, tester reports a bug to a developer...

Think I'm gonna branch out from dev for a minute and try my hand mucking about with my arduino kit! Any cool ideas guys? Robot Arm seems to be my prevailing will so far

I think we should have a decent web app for devrant. And... make it open source so we all could give a hand 🖐️

I bought a second hand laptop that doesn't power on, even with all of the hardware. But when I removed the case, the power button was disconnected.

Who would disconnect their power button, the one thing that pretty much controls everything?

My iPhone 10 just fell out of my hand on the bathroom floor. It cracked a ceramic tile a bit and was completely intact.

There is no way 14 Pro or any non-rugged Android smartphone can do it.

Very old vsauce is my grandpa. He comes to me to solve a crime of a man that made 1850000 html links by hand

Anytime a designer tries to make a development estimate or tells you what to do, immediately raise your hand and shout a firm “No!” - sometimes I hate these fuckers.

I‘m currently writing a http proxy server (something like the proxy mod in Apache, but more special). One the one hand is is nice that HTTP 1.1 can use one TCP connection multiple times, but on the other hand it is very annoying. Because I need to rewrite the Host header. And therefore I need the start of the HTTP header. I solved it after some time, but now my code is more complicated than before.

Having a cold on a busy time schedule sucks. I almost worked myself to death yesterday by consuming a ungodly ammount of caffeine. Even though the caffeine helped for what felt like 15 minutes, my brain did not seem to function. Just one more worksheet to hand in tomorrow ....

Just had to type a 12x12 matrix by hand.. Bleh

I didn't choose the engineering lyfe, the engineering lyfe chose me

Anyone else have or had a computer science professor you wants you to hand in a printed copy of you code? P.S. Only the printed copy nothing else.

Why doesn't writing code doesn't go hand in hand with a breakup ?

Like you can solve complex problems but why did not save this one

Bleh, the game awards winners are a bunch of console hand-me-downs, or console exclusives. Fuck AAA games.

AWS IAM permissions: a love-hate relationship! 😫🔐 On one hand, they promise control, but on the other, they're a labyrinth of confusion. Navigating JSON policies, deciphering documentation, and debugging 'Access Denied' errors. Oh, the joys of IAM! 😅