This would be funny if it wasn't supposed to show the amount on my bank account.

Rant that involved my manger hit a decent amount of ++.
Just seen him downloading devRant.

I just discovered ctrl+r in the Linux terminal.

Mother of god this fucker speeds up my workflow!

A massive amount of kudos to the person who made this 😍

PHP 🐘 is so damn easy to learn, run straighforward in all OSs, that anyone can start coding in no time. Therefore, the amount of crap code around, made by unskilled devs, is just *unbelievable*. 💩

"Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something." - Nicholas Burroughs

So i sent my bill to the client yesterday and:

C: the amount is too high i can’t pay this
M: but you validate the number of working days
C: but the amount is huge ... nevermind i’ll pay you because you are good guy
M: ...

I did get a raise but we also hired like 5 new people... But I still do the same amount of work... Which was already too much...

Did I miss some huge update? Since when did Skype have a function of not letting one write messages after a certain amount without the other party replying?

My biggest annoyance?

The amount of hate against JS, I personnaly love JS!

When you spend 4 hours writing that algo, then spend the same amount of time to celebrate

Humans!

The amount of sensitive, private, and secure information you can get just by asking someone for it is truly astounding.

During the entire afternoon we had a ridiculously low amount of tickets.

Suddenly 'is this the real life, or is this just fantasy' popped up in my head.

😆

Looking at the amount of Samsung Note 7 rants, I have to restore the balance with some classic Iphone bashing ;)

How come starting a new project is always more appealing than finishing the infinite amount of unfinished projects :'(

When management measure the performance of maintenance team by the amount of bug they fixed

I feel a high amount of self rightiousnes

If I keep ignoring issues they'll eventually overflow and I'll have a negative amount of bugs, right?

I had a small heart attack yesterday due to the unhealthy amount of energy drinks i consume so... I guess dont be like me guys

@dfox man, do you realize the amount of desks that have cleaned *for the first time* because of this week topic? 😅

I'm puzzled, what kind of lobby put you up to this?

This semester, I had to pay a considerable amount of money to access the online homework for a class.

College is literally pay-to-win.

I just noticed the huge amount of Germans on this platform. Gather together, my fellow Schnitzels! 🍻

When everything has been abstracted..
While I think it's encouraging to newcomers into the field of programming they should always strive to delve into the abstracted details.. The amount of complexity that we deal with 'infinite'.

After a few hours, I think I just got mysql based openvpn authentication working O_o

Fucking yay! Now let's implement a maximum amount of connections per user.

Yes, rants can be happy too.

Just imagine, if someday some client or some manager logs on to devrant and see the amount of hate we people give them... Just imagine their faces 🐑😂😂😂😂

Perfect, even the same amount of upvotes

Do you ever see someone's great work online and the amount of accomplishments he had, and see your confidence drop? At the same time, it's inspiring.

Quote by my non-techie co-founder: when a developer says a new feature takes X amount of time, you always have to multiply X by PI to get the actual duration 🤓

Can we, please, put some substance into our rants? Over the course of the last weeks the amount of rants of the type "%NAME% %SWEARWORDS%" has increased tremendously. You want tell everyone that (for example) Windows can go fuck itself? Great. But why? What is the story behind you're enragement?

Please make this place more fun to browse by sharing stories. Not just a random amount of names and swearwords.

I see a farmer who wants to work less, he automates his work by using new tools - shovels, tractors, to the point that he has to invest similar amount of time to maintain these tools

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them." - Will Rogers

Hey Guys,
I'm back! :-p

Just kidding, I just joined..!

does anyone else have days where they just can't be bothered to make anything, and days where they get a massive amount done?

[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 ?

The amount of "echo {number};" thingies I have in my code right now is too damn high, please don't kill me 😅

Haha the amount of people ranting here about how they can't get a girlfriend, we should soon get a tinder plugin.

test@test.com must have a huge amount of spam! From me alone anyway

This happens to me all the time at my new company, the amount of wtfs I say in some js files, man...

The amount of times i have told clients to "fuck their own face" in my head is astounding

Each sticker on a race car increases speed by a small amount, which is why they all have so many. Same thing with laptops.

That moment you realise Typescript is not called Typescript because it has types but because of the immense amount of typing you have to do to get anything done...

German printing company's order form. Great example for how to make me NOT order there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Show all nodes (9500 More)"

Translation: "Papier und Auflage" == "Paper type and amount"

just ended up googling "how to fucking install bullshit ms sql 2014 local db on fucking win 7 workstation" - was quite surprised about the amount of (more or less) matching results

The amount of torture I've been through is too much. I gonna tell everyone. My headphones only work at an angle.

Being responsible for a massive breach of personal & financial data.

Seriously, that crap scares me way more than any amount of downtime does.

Company that has tech != Tech company.

The amount of "Hey fellow programmers" I get from marketers of all people is cringeworthy. No amount of blockchain in your sentences will magically convince me you know anything about it.

I fucking love the DevRant community. The amount of honesty here and ranting is 🔥.

Let the rage flow through you and keep it up fam.

At FOSDEM right now. For one, this is fucking heaven and secondly:

The amount of stickers here 😍

I want my dual-monitors :c Seems like I need to double my amount of upvotes then. But I want to match my avatar to my real setup! :c

A huge amount of memory leakage in a C++ project which was from a mistaken 'new' statement which was not deleted

That moment when clients employees comment on your working hours and the amount of work you do...

Fun fact: I'm replacing their jobs with applications.

So I decided to start learning vim.

The amount of times that I insert ":wq" into my file!!

No amount of coffee can prepare me for this code review

It's nice when you come back to DevRant with 75 notifications 😁

The amount of work people do to avoid work sometimes amazes me.

Cannot handle this amount of tags...

The amount of battery on my phone is inversely proportional to how hard I haven't been working throughout the day. I'll tell you more about this problem once my phone's dead

Am I the only one who ingests a ridiculous amount of coffee while working?

Went to the ATM to get some cash.. entered an amount of 800 INR and to my surprise got an error saying "Your account does not have sufficient funds for this transaction" .. Instantly thought that my account has somehow been compromised.. checked the bank app and found out that I everything was normal..

As it turns out the ATM machine did not have 500 or 100 INR notes, thus it could not dispense my requested amount..

Now that's what we call a "Good" error handling..

Got this in my mail, so I placed a bid to deliver for $10 in 24 hours. Wish I could insert a smaller amount.

I'm going to break my cellphone screen scrolling through devRant. The amount of relatable content and hilarious experience is too damn high😂😂😂👀

Just try to learn alone.Get fucked up,try to find the solution alone, you'll become a good programmer with a huge amount of knowledge that u can't even imagine.❤️

Clients wants a complete reworked of their e-commerce website - sure will cost X amount.

It needs to be done before black Friday - nope

When was last time you had Fight or Argument(restricted only to texting) with your GF/BF/Spouse while coding?

The amount of text typed on phone is more than the code on screen.

Ughhhh why are you presenting in 4:3 over HDMI.... The amount of cringe I'm having is surreal...

I'm starting to think that the quality of my day is directly correlated to the amount of times I say "fuck". Today I said and shouted that word for about 100 times.

FUCK!

Thinking hard on where and how to spend such a huge amount!

Ended up on Windows 7 in an office that runs pretty exclusively in OSX. Also, I'm a complete n00b...

Amount of time spent feeling stupid per day: ~97.5% 😔

the amount of hair I lost everyday is directly proportional to the number of lines of my codes 😥

I think my duck is annoyed by the amount of obvious errors I asked it about today...

All I want for Christmas is.... for Windows 10 search bar to respond and work in a reasonable amount of time and not suck so much.

They amount of boilerplate code you have to write for an Android app. Drives me nuts sometimes.

Interview at amazon on Monday, wish me luck! Any advice? I've got 3-4 years experience, so not grad but not huge amount of experience.

Me: "It's a balance between three things: you either optimize for computation, memory use, or programming effort. Computers don't have a infinitely fast processors with an infinite amount of memory."

Coworker: "Did anybody tell Java?"

re·fucked·or
[rəˈfəktˈôr]
VERB
To refactor code into a state much worse than when you started. It is often accompanied by files containing many lines of code, usually with an obscene amount of nesting.

The amount of podcast episodes I missed recently reached dangerous proportions.

whoever created FTP clients: I hope you burn in hell for an infinite amount of eternities.

Client: Each invoice should be it's entity. It should only report it's own open amount. Any other open amounts remain on the other invoices.

Me: No problem. ::Sets invoices to only report own open amount::

PM: Hey, the invoices in UAT are not displaying the sum of all open bills.

Me: I know. The client wants each invoice to only report the open amount on that specific invoice.

PM: That can't be right, change it back before we give the client access to the UAT environment.

Me: No problem. ::reverts invoice changes::

Client: We are failing the invoices. The invoices should not be giving total open amounts for the account. Each invoice should only report the open amount for that invoice. We told the development about this...

PM: I see. I'll make sure he understands your request.

Me: ... ::reverts the revert::

PM: Hey, the invoices in UAT aren't giving a total of the open-

Me: OMFG. I just want this task closed!

Client: After the invoice work is done, we need to talk about past due amounts and how they are reported to customers.

PM: Sure thing. It is logical to give a total of a past due amount to the customer...

Me: ::Starts updating resume::

The amount of meetings I wouldn't have if people just used Jira properly

atm: what would you like to do?
me: $40 fast cash from checking
atm: select an account
me: checking
atm: please enter an amount to withdraw
me: $40

When you start thinking you should become italian cause of the amount of spaghetti you deal with

I setup an email server a couple of months ago.

The amount of port scans and brute force attacks I've received this month alone is awful.

JUST SOD OFF ALREADY, PLEASE.

Anybody else interested in a feature to save the state/amount of "scroll" when accidentally leaving the application?

All junior php developers must know about register_shutdown() function before going into developement ... it will save massive amount of debugging time ..

Upon reflection, I think that the amount of math I learned in school pales in comparison to the amount I learned about LaTeX. I could pretty reliably recreate the textbook rendition of the problem. Maybe it's just me but just knowing the solution felt too abstract. I want a solid looking execution of it.

I'm graduating today so I don't know how relatable this is for everyone else. I'm just reflecting.

I’ve seen an increased amount of new ranters recently, welcome to devRant! We hope your stay is as amazing as the rants you’ll be posting!

Isn't cryptocurrency unsustainable? The amount of energy used as the blockchain gets longer is like exponential?

I read somewhere recently something the amount of energy used to mine crypto is more than an the power used by Argentina.

"Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something." - Nicholas Burroughs

!rant

I am so excited, I just got a response from Voodoo.io on publishing my mobile game. Hopefully it makes a decent amount of money!

I don't really "keep" myself motivated. I wake up with certain amount of motivation every day and then I slowly die inside through out the day, every day.

My doctor: "To heal from a concussion, you should limit the amount of time you spend looking at a screen."

Well, I guess I'll just die then...

Looks like this community is full of devs who don't have patience.

Idea: Corruption as a service.

RESTful API where you send a URL to a file, an intensity and a method, and if the file's under some size, we return a URL to the now-corrupted file on the server, which is removed after like 5 minutes of inactivity or something.

Depending on method and intensity, corruption amount varies from one byte to every byte being either replaced or added to/subtracted from by a certain amount.

The amount of attempts to access my website is just too much O_O

Anyway in nginx to block access if login attempt failed after 3 times?

“It’s a non-trivial amount of work” = I won’t be able to copy and paste

I can't bear to spend longer on game character creation than a few minutes but oh, the amount of time I spend on customizing my desktop environment with gtk themes and so on...

I'm wondering, if you click an item in the profile builder that requires a certain amount of points, does that amount get retracted from the current amount you have or does it simply display the amount of points you need to acquire that item?

I may love apt but fuck me, the amount of times I've gotten told that the process is currently locked is making me go bat shit crazy -,-

That's a serious amount of pull requests...

The amount of time it took me to realise that SSH is disabled by default on raspbian.

The amount of stupidity, innocence, ignorance and indifference in the facial expression is just amazing!
There should be an emoji with this face.

Client asked how long it takes to build a website. As if everything takes the exact same amount of time.

The amount of bugs I find in my iPhone SE 🤦‍♂️

the amount of micromanagement enforced in our scrum routine is getting ridiculous... but the PM seems to be happy with this

The amount of meetings has been drastically reduced to a minimum.

The amount of times I have read "I can't summit the application" in user issue tickets has prompted me to make this

greetings from windscribe vpn!

finally a free private vpn that gives you a reasonable amount of data

❤️ privacy

if(amount !>= 0){ }

The amount of times i go to the toilet and solve a code problem whilst there...

I think all offices should just have toilets for chairs.

It really becomes a joke when you can't sleep due to unstoppable amount of pooping.

Maybe two days ago I expressed interest in creating a dynamic HTML templating system.

Here's what I came up with. template.js only 34 lines. Which is great because JS is ugly and I want the least amount of it as possible.

The idea is you can create hiddent templates, modify them using traditional means (HTML/ CSS), then generate an infinite amount of them in JS.

Btw: Screenshot is two different images stitched together. There isn't JS and HTML in the same place.

You just realize the sheer amount of dependencies spring boot has, when maven tries to resolve them while sitting in a train with bad wifi

The number of tabs open in Chrome is a direct correlation to the amount of coffee I need on any given day.

I love job posts made by HR cronies:

"A majority of your time will be enabling development in our React Native app with a large amount of time dedicated to the rest of our stack."

So, if my math is correct... a majority is greater than 50%... but... "a large amount of time" meaning the rest?

Another job post asking for the typical 10x dev

BuT wHy CaNt We FiNd AnYoNe?!?!?! ThErEs NoT eNoUgH gOoD heLP tHeSe DaYs!!!

Hey, our air conditions are not free, so you really need to buy something else we charge you for the amount of air you have inhaled while sitting down.

The amount of times I write response as "reponse" or "repsonse" is too damn high.

Takes ages to debug as well.. 😡

Moving to a new office this week. The only chinese restaurant nearby is one of those where you get 5 times the amount of rice compared to the meat. Fuck.

At work they assigned me to another project.
Now I need to work with JS instead of Java.
Plot twist: I have 0 experience with JS and about the same amount of knowledge.
GL to me

I think the amount of cringy shit on devrant today has already surpassed the maximum level. Everyone go outside.

"Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something." - Nicholas Burroughs

The amount of dutch people on devRant around this time is crazy.

Let yourself be heard!

Dutch Devrant Dudes and Dudettes

So Taran from Linus Tech Tips posted his autohotkey code on twitter the other day and the amount of redirecting and includes is a little frustrating.

"Creativity isn’t worth a thing if it isn’t served with an equal amount of reliability. " - Anton Peck

Design patterns are not a catalogue for programmers problems.

The amount of brainless coders that just slap around these patterns because they were taught that it will magically solve everything is amazing.

It really pisses me off with everyone who says that a good programmer is the one who writes the least amount!
A good programmer is one that writes it the safest imo

tfw you code without building for an extended amount of time and it just works. Where is it? Where is that damn problem that you know is there?

I now have 4 monitors at my workstation and all it has done is convince me that any amount over 3 is just unnecessary.

The amount of stress you have in your life is directly proportional to the percentage of the screen the icons on your desktop cover up.

Prove me wrong.

All my university projects technically hold up to coding for the least amount of money - the tuition fee I have to pay, which is always a minus amount of money

Lifting weights has become my personal cope for the amount of shitware I have created.

Recipe websites are absolute aids. Either a cancer inducing amount of ads or a twelve page essay for an unnecessary and unwanted backstory. And sometimes you even get both.

Did the loan amount offered to me just cause an integer overflow !!!

I dont know if i should be happy or sad

The day a manager understand the link between short deadlines and amount of bugs, there will be celebrations across the world

None. As soon as I hear about a new trend I fear it. I fear the huge amount of Medium articles I would encounter...

The amount of mug posts recently became too damn high!

Respect for the amount of trust that person has on his/her team

Source: Instagram

PO: "Hurry the fuck up!"
me: "Well I'm sorry but no amount of wanting will speed up development. Development is complicated. Understand that".

Non-techies are super irritating.

Am I the only one who thinks that the amount of repost in the last weeks are too god damn high?!

For a unit amount of staying awake I lose less energy now than I did an hour ago.

I just said that.
To an actual human being.
Science is dangerous.

If you start coding in Python3, don't use both tabs and spaces. Just decide for one. It'll save you a good amount of time on bigger projects 😉

Jurassic Park was based on a cheapass client who didn't want to pay the right amount to the. Developer who single handedly protected everyone in the park.

The amount of work waiting for me after my 4 weeks vacation makes me regretting about the vacation itself 😂

The amount of ads YouTube is now showing is insane.... want to Watch a video.... Shit thru (a few) ads first...

Let me tell all of you who don't like big frameworks..
The nice thing about them is that they minimize the amount of SHIT CODE all of you who think you know how to code, but actually don't, write..
And minimizes the amount of headache for the devs who need to then maintain/fix/change your SHIT CODE.

yes...lets put routes 10 dirs deep into the project and let ppl look for it..

Confession:
I spend an embarrassingly large amount of time carefully constructing email subject lines.

Easily Ruby on Rails. So easy for bringing ideas to life in a short amount of time.

"The amount a person uses his imagination is inversely proportional to the amount of punishment he will receive for using it." - Anonymous

When you have to work on 3 different projects and start writing to do lists for them and wanna cry looking at the amount of work that you need to get done in a month.

Playing gameboy Pokemon roms in an emulator called noCash, which would ask you to pay after a set amount of playtime if you wanted to continue having color in your games.

There is only one way of boiling spagetti (code)
1.Measure your required amount of spagetti (in project)
2.Wrong

the amount of times my client change their minds this week is insane.. I just want to finish this project!!

LaTeX is all fun and cool and awesome until you encounter a stupid formatting issue that is impossible to fucking fix in a sensible amount of time.

I just realized after moving out from PHP the amount of rants I posted decreased

I just hate Comcast. All I want is a static IP to host a server on BUT NOOOO COMCAST BE LIKE BITCH YOU GOTTA BUY OUR ENTERPRISE PLAN FOR SOME RIDICULOUS AMOUNT FOR A STATIC IP

Work expands so as to fill the available time. That's Parkinson's Law.

Or in other words: The amount of time that one has to perform a task is the amount of time it will take to complete the task

So, if you have a deadline, wait until the correct time and then start working. This helps a lot in terms of not over-doing things and will save precious man-hours.

funny how creating something merely useless like a text2asciiart converter can spark this amount of joy

After a while of functioning as a dev, I've learned one of many lessons:

The amount of experience you have does not correlate with your expertise, but it in fact correlates with the amount of absolutely broken shit you've seen and your ability deal with it.

* break it into elementary steps, small enough to fit into your "estimation time unit", e.g. days or hours.
* estimate those steps for "developing at a leisurely pace" if nothing goes wrong.
* think about "what could go wrong" (list everything!) and adjust values accordingly.
* adjust total amount with experience values, like:
* times 1.2 for every manager
* times 1 to 4 based on which legacy projects i have to touch

and finally:
* multiply with `1+log(t/u,2)`, with `u` being the amount of useful data in the requirement description and `t` being the total amount of data in the requirement description
* sample: with our current "favourite" customer, about 90% of all tickets is garbage, so t/u = 100/10 = 10 => log(10,2) = 3.3 => multiply everything with 4.3

Dear devRant, the avatar builder takes a boring amount of time to apply a change...

If you received an offer for a new job and asked your current boss for a raise to match the new offer, would you tell him/her the real amount or would you inflate it by ~5-10% (or any other arbitrary amount)?

Would that be considered negotiating in bad faith?

I'm not in this position right now (unfortunately), I'm just genuinely curious about what you all would do in this situation.

I have a unreasonably large amount of commits just for these files in the repository.
Is there something wrong with me?

Judging by the amount of bitcoin recovery ad spam here on devrant, there must be a huge amount of people somehow losing their bitcoins on a daily basis.
Thank god those altruistic scammers… *ahem* I mean hackers of course… are there to help.

Working on a subscription feature. The amount of times I've misspelled subscription as SUSbscription is too damn high

To my surprise I'm actually on target with my ongoing projects. Going to have a decent amount of time off this Christmas.

Fuck everyone, I'm gonna mount my disk!

This is like - drinking a glass of water after every beer, to cut the amount of consumed alcohol by half.

It is pretty much useless...

How long can you work in a role with no potential that bores you shitless but pays an astronomical amount?

Does that look like a bug ? Or a feature ? It requires a considerable amount of time and effort to develop unattended remote access. How do these people develop such a feature as "mistake".

Mondays: the amount of typos os too damn higg!

Pricing:

With AWS <Service>, you pay only for what you use. You are charged based on the amount of granular data generated on a monthly basis.

Literally. Every.Fucking.Service.

Time blocking my calendar with busy items so I can limit the amount of meetings PM's can invite me to. Works well and helps me stay of task.

Spend the same amount of time looking for and testing existing npm packages as it would take to build something from scratch.

Nothing yet, but Boss is still certain that building our own is unnecessary.
😐

Code is cheap! It is very cheap!

Worst busywork?
Having a graphic designer on the team that doesn't know development.

Gods, the amount of tweaks and adjustments they come up with.

M$ Access... It's so disgusting...

Have to work with it a good amount of my work time. It's one reason why I'll change company in the near future.

I feel like if the world had been on devRant then the hack wouldn't have taken place because of the amount of people complaining about fucking Windows!

City 17 is a joke compared to the amount of surveillance an average Android user is under every day.

Client deletes erp record with a massive amount of aggregate objects. Calls and almost has a nervous breakdown.

Thank god for soft deletes, they make awesome invoices.

How do you actually structurize _big_ projects and still use js components?

_big_ = more than 300 pages. Seriously. Not addtodo, listtodos and thats it. A huge fucken amount of pages.

I invested 1000 rs in bitcoins today. My 1st 0.002289 BTC 😁😇. (1000 yet to invest). Lol its a small amount i k.

To generate a true random number you must call the random function a random amount of times, store those results in an array, then pick a random array index

Word of advice:
Whenever you plan you invest a considerable amount of time in learning a new language make sure that its well documented and has a good support.

<rant>
<title>On XML</title>
<message>Too much overhead for such a small amount of data. JSON is much more efficient.</message>
</rant>

Not so huge amount of monitors XD

I'm literally facing a horrifying amount of hair fall every day since I started coding.

Today I was interviewed for the position of SDE at an e-commerce company.

Two guys were in the interview panel.

The amount of attitude these guys had up in their ass was really remarkable. I was not aware that people could store such a huge amount of crappy attitude up in their asses.

Discussions were never open ended, one of the guy was just bragging about himself.

I really fucking hate these kind of people.

Why would anyone want to run Laravel when it runs so much slower than raw PHP? Surely the development time saved is negated by the amount of optimisation work required?

even after learning to program I still spend a silly amount of time on hackertyper.net

Given a set of projects, twice the amount of work half the amount of time to do them in. We told management we need more time and more developers. Products are being given to the clients with lots of bugs. Management's response: double the QA team size... We almost have more QA members than Dev members. FFS.

Anybody know why a good amount of active members like linuxxx and SortofTested have been inactive for a few months. Also why has there been a green dot explosion

I don't know if it's intended or not.
The crazy amount of console.log in devRant's new desktop website got my attention.

The amount of misinformation in quora answers is absurd. Dude was seriously trying to tell me let is slower than var after I provided him data proving that they are nearly same in performance tests.

has anyone developed a math formula for GitHub repositories using the stars, the issues open and the amount of PRs to judge how strong the project is?

The amount of patience required to test and debug the android app on phone...😩🙏

The amount of boilerplating required to write a simple subject state service on angular.

I still love it tho. Very organized. Allows better thinking by explicitly stating the registered services in modules.

The amount of way too similar frameworks and libraries in JS and Java.

db for huge amount of iot data?

Ouch. Difficult decision ahead. Be 30 years old. Have a decent amount of experience on the .net stack.

Ditch it all and go all in on Java EE or continue to pursuit mastery of .net?

Why the fuck good git pushed my vendor folder, even though I have it in .gitignore?

That shit costed a huge amount of time... 😥

If I get a line of code for every time I say I'm gonna be productive, I'd have more lines of code compared to the amount of lines of code I've coded.

Idea: make the amount of ++ needed for the customisation things powers of two!

The ability to land freelance jobs which pay a realistic amount for the work..
Why? Because I'm officially in Vietnam babey!!!!!

Hey fellow nerds, I have a math question :)

I need to split a pile of coins (1s, 2s, 5s, 10s and so on) into a number of piles, let's say four, so that each pile has the same amount of money, but not necessarily the same amount of coins. Does anybody know of such an algorithm?