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Wanted to reboot my work pc today. I always do that through a terminal and I've got dozens open anyways.
*wants to reboot right away*
*stops at the last possible point to check if I'm not in a server-logged-in terminal*
😓
*silently logs out of prod server*
Well that was god damn close.28 -
Boss: Can we add a [Close] button at the top right of the modal instead for all the items, the back at the lower left seems out of place.
Me: What modal? You mean move the back button to the top right of the page?
Boss: And make it say [Close]
Me: But it navigates Back. It's not a modal so it doesn't close. [Back] makes more sense than [Close].
Boss: Ok
...
Boss: Change the [Back] on the modal to [Close].
Me: But... fine...
Buttons all now say "Close", they all have double quotes. No one has said anything.
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So the bosses and general peeps at work never close our door properly.
Finally earning the "engineer" part of our job titles :p!
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Client hasn’t responded to my questions for over 2 weeks, so I close her ticket.
”Why the hell did you close the ticket!? The problem still exists!”
Sorry, I’m not a mind reader..3 -
I have a colleague who has a fear of closing any window. He'll let his Mac run for months on end without closing any of the windows he's opened. He also has all kinds of browsers with tons of tabs open. He's a designer so I get his urge to not do all the technical bits and bobs every day, but for the love of zalgo restart your computer once in a while. Or at least close windows you don't use. It's come to a point where non of us want to help him, because helping him out takes forever with his slow as shit computer. We've asked/told/joked about it too him several times, but he just doesn't want to listen. At one point when I was helping him everything took so long that I decided to reboot for him. And of course Mac had to go and reopen every window that was open during shutdown, which took another good fifteen minutes. Shite OS. And naturally he spent the next hour fixing everything the way he liked it. He hasn't turned off his computer since (couple of months ago), except for when we moved to a new building a month ago.
Just had to get that annoyance of my chest.8 -
Has anyone ever done this?
Open devrant
See no new posts
Close devrant
Open devrant
Wait what...
Close devrant
Open Reddit
Sees nothing interesting
Open devrant
Okay... Need a tech break...14 -
TL;DR: disaster averted!
Story time!
About a year ago, the company I work for merged with another that offered complementary services. As is always the case, both companies had different ways of doing things, and that was true for the keeping of the financial records and history.
As the other company had a much larger financial database, after the merger we moved all the data of both companies on their software.
The said software is closed source, and was deployed on premises on a small server.
Even tho it has a lot of restrictions and missing features, it gets the job done and was stable enough for years.
But here comes the fun part: last week there was a power outage. We had no failsafe, no UPS, no recent backups and of course both the OS and the working database from the server broke.
Everyone was in panic mode, as our whole company needs the software for day to day activity!
Now, don't ask me how, but today we managed to recover all the data, got a new server with 2 RAID HDDs for the working copy of the DB, another pair for backups, and another machine with another dual HDD setup for secondary backups!
We still need a new UPS and another off site backup storage, but for now...disaster averted!
Time for a beer! Or 20...
That is all :)4 -
:-)
I think that "family guy" is telling me That is time to close netflix and read something......
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*Signs in to Outlook*
"You signed out of your account.
It's a good idea to close all browser windows."
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Visual Studio wasn't responding and I wanted to close it via task manager ... But as I clicked the button "close task" task manager wasn't responding😭
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If you indent like this, I'm going to find you, and I'm going to kill you.
My eyes are already sore, 12 minutes after arriving to the office.
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Me: don't limit yourself! Learn more than one thing, experiment and learn more.
Devrant: don't use x. X is a piece of shit and its not worth it. This is better, and you are wrong.
I hate highly opinionated people. Devrant seems to be full of them.
I seriously believe this is why people like AlexDelarge left. Sooo many punchable motherfuckers up in this bitch man.
"Fucking leave then" ----> go fuck yourself. This platform is great. Some of y'all are great. Having frustrated virgins lurking around does not mean that all of us that like fucking around in here needs to leave.19 -
😩 That moment when you finish a project (part), close browser tabs close tons of terminal windows, quit a giant ide.. and you realize that you forgot a thing.. 😩12
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Should I Close-Source my project?
I have been working on a Desktop/hacking simulator game and up until now the project has been Open-Source. I'm at a point now where I haven't gone too far to turn back.
Last night I got to thinking about my game, and what I want to do in the future. The game will always remain Free, but I might sell it to another company later down the line, something I can't do if I stay Open. I want to makea good game. And I don't want to do it for money (because that has never worked out for me in the past) but I want to *be able* to make money if I wanted to. I mean, I have been told by several developers that my game will be "ground breaking/a worldwide phenomenon/a Minecraft competitor" while being Open is one of my main selling points, besides populatity, what do I have to gain? I said I don't want to develop for money (mainly because the pressure gets to me) but I'm so poor I'm almost literally starving. I make $3/mo from Patreon and survive from donation from relatives. I feel like I need this. But I also feel selfish. Information should be free, ya know?
Idk.. This started serious and turned into a ramble.. Guess that's what this app is all about.
Leave your opinions below.25 -
It's freaking 35C outside.
Guys, please close all the windows while compiling. Global warming is not a joke14 -
If you're going to infect your website with a promo-code-banner. And it includes a close/dismiss button..
DON'T PUT A FUCKING LINK ON SAID BUTTON! JUST FUCKING CLOSE THE BANNER AND STOP WASTING MY PIXELS.8 -
During highschool years I was using Ubuntu for the 1st time and saw this strange looking icon named vim....had to reboot PC to close vim 😅
Not my proudest moment.5 -
Comes back to hometown for easter holidays.
(Not so close) 'friends & family' tech support requests start rolling in..1 -
So spent almost all my time on break just hoping to catch the elusive 512++, never came so I went to bed and slept... Woke up and by the skin of my teeth!!!!
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I was hopelessly lost in a problem when I found an Issue on Github describing the exact same problem.
Unfortunately, the message board it didn't quite help me solving the problem.
Some time later I managed to solve the problem, and remembering the Github issue, I wanted to post an actually helpful message.
Oh but wait. The issue was fucking closed.
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My second prototype of the studio equalizer. It’s not even close to being done. It’s barely even started.
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Me: pipes something to less
Me: Find the info I need
Me: Press Ctrl+C to close less
*Nothing*
Me: Furiously smashes keys on keyboard
Me: Googles 'how to close less'
:q3 -
The feeling when you receive a screenshot of a window, and try to close the screenshot with the window close button.1
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My head hurts so much right now...
So there's a beautiful hilarious woman next door and we're getting really close (friend close), but she's 26 and she's just messing with my head so much, wtf is going off???77 -
Is common decency too much to expect?
If you give someone a job in the company you work for, do you expect them to badmouth you? Or to try to humiliate you? Why do people do this?4 -
So many steps and guilt to close accounts these days....
Even had to Google how to close it ... It's not in account settings...
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PM and UX designer talks.
About a feature on android with viewpager (swipeable views) and a header with buttons.
PM : We need a back button and a close button on the header.
UX : A customer will be confused by both, with the swipe too.
PM : Then we need a close button alone.
UX : Customer will search for back button and not everyone might swipe left.
PM : We need a back button alone.
UX : Customer might not know how to close the view. He can't keep going back back back.
PM : we don't need any buttons.
UX : Customer should find it easy to close or go back.
PM : bruv.2 -
Classic support ticket:
Me: "Uh... those numbers in your screenshot look right"
Customer: "Well it wasn't yesterday, looks like it is fixed now"
Me: "...."
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How many people have faced this?
When the test suite completes 99% and fails on one stupid test thats not even part of what you updated.5 -
I question myself sometimes.
I clicked on not one, but BOTH information bubbles, and proceeded to close them immediately.
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UX: we need to add a close button to the filter menu.
Dev: wtf, why?
UX: the users cannot figure out how to close it. -
i made a mock code that wouldn't close to prank my colleagues. this boy tried the x button and it didn't work, so he went for ctrl alt del and the pop up showed up to confirm and when pressing yes it still wouldn't close1
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Day 653
I still didn't manage to close vim but I dont wan't to close my terminal.
Guess I'll accept my new buddy on my screen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯3 -
If you're close to getting the application ready for release date and they just change the business process 🙄1
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If your website has a login wall, my visceral reaction is to close the tab. After that, my rational reaction is to close the closed tab. Because fuck you.
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I just had a boys-out night with my son. Went to some restaurant, found a parking spot in a confusing parking lot (half is more expensive than the other half of the lot, not sure which fee applies to the middle row... confusing), started paying for parking with the app (pays every 15 minutes until stopped).
Went inside, ordered a pizza, some ice cream. Chatting, playing, eating, having fun,... An SMS comes: "You have outstanding fines" and a link to the gov taxes' website.
wtf.. I must have parked in the wrong spot. FUCK! Oh well, it should not be a large fine anyways, it's just for parking....
Click on the link, login with my bank/SmartID creds. Another SmartID dialog pops up asking for a PIN2.
What? PIN1 is for authentication, PIN2 is for Authorization. What am I authorizing...?
Reading through the Auth message: "Paying 2473€ for Boris SomeLastname".
what.....?
Thank God my muscle memory did not kick in and I did not enter that PIN2.
And thank God I know what PIN1 and PIN2 are for.
It would've been one expensive boys-out evening... Even a strip club would've been cheaper.
Stay sharp, guys!
P.S. Later I checked the URL. It used all the right keywords, and it was registered as an .info domain. It was somewhat off, but gov websites trying to be lean do sometimes use some weird ass domains.15 -
Make change
Close Visual Studio for the night
Open Visual Studio
Commit
Close Visual Studio for the night
Open Visual Studio
Sync with Bitbucket
Close Visual Studio for the night2 -
I spent an hour to debug spaghetti trying to find out why this damn functionality doesn't work. Then I was told that close button actually saves your progress. I was always using close tab button in browser to close that page. Great UX GG
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My (pseudo)code:
//Cursor1.Open ()
//Cursor2.Open ()
//Cursor2.DoStuff ()
//Cursor2.Close ()
//Cursor1.Close ()
Prof: Why do you have Cursor1 in there if you don't use it?
Me: Because it doesn't compile if I take it out.
Prof: Why?
Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I miss the shit I could get away with in grad school. -
Whoever invented popup ads that move to expand or close as you either try to close them or move away from them...you are the bane of my existence currently and I wish you the most slow and painful death 😑😑😤😤🖕🖕1
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PC: *37 tabs open in chrome and a gradle task running*
Me: *trying to close a tab*
PC: Bitch please2 -
When you get so excited that your program finally works you accidentally close I t and it doesn't save :(1
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Well, not all people close chrome tabs after work, some close Firefox tabs too. You damn browserists.6
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when you're on the cusp of finishing a feature that took 3wks up to this point to develop, and then your manager pulls you off of it
😓😓😓2 -
LinkedIn sends me notif about an InMail. I open it via the notif. I close the app. The notif count badge is still on the app icon. I open the app again. Go back to the message. Close the app. Now the badge is gone.
Good going LinkedIn 👌2 -
Cracked my first weak RSA implementation challenge today. Feels pretty awesome.
Involved primes that were very close, which means you can factorize the modulus quickly to get the private key. Normally, you would never use close primes as prime factorization's difficulty relies a certain amount on some distance between the two values.
The reason you can brute force close primes has to do with them being close in value to the square root of the function, meaning that you can search far quicker than if you were to try every combination of primes.2 -
Me: *Clicks red 'X'
macOS: "Do you want to close the window?" "Keep window open" "Close Window"
Me: *Clicks "Close Window"
macOS: "Are you sure you want to close the window? YOU MAY LOSE DATA!"
Me: "YES!! Close the goddamn window!"
macOS: "Window failed to close, click 'Close Window' or try again later."
Me: *Presses and holds power button to shut down.
*"Computer" restarts...
macOS: "You shut down your computer because of a problem. Would you like to close this window.
Me: *Clicks 'Close Window'
macOS: "Do you want to close the window?" "Keep window open" "Close Window"
Macintosh: It's like a computer... But not really... Well, maybe... NAAAAHHHH!!3 -
Someone should really close the COVID-19 ticket. Or at least make it ready for technical/PO review.1
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I'm trying to get a websocket connection in Java spring boot to work and I'm close to commiting suicide.6
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Accidentally ran
$ git reset --hard
On my 2 weeks worth of uncommited code.
Thankfully Intellij has a local history. 😥7 -
Company notebook be like:
"1 program still needs to close"
"-----------------------------------"
"(waiting for) Microsoft Outlook"
"Outlook is shutting down"
"-----------------------------------"
"To close the program that is preventing Windows from shutting down, click Cancel, and then close the program"
"-----------------------------------"
FORCE SHUTDOWN, YOU MOFO!3 -
My weather script now automatically fetches location as well.
Not that accurate but close enough.
https://github.com/gauravat16/...
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#Development Story:
No Size for iPad (only mocks are mobile and desktop)
Ambiguous on Close Button (size and position)
#Development:
Me: iPad size, should it be X?
Product Owner: Yes
#QA
QA: Close button is to Small, change to bigger
ME: (ok....)
#Product Owner Review
Product Owner: Close button to big, make it smaller, also iPad size is not that, is Y.
Me:
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Every time I pick up a ticket, it turns out to be a duplicate and another engineer is already working on it or it already is done. So I close the ticket and collect the story points. (Yes, morally correct would be to close it as duplicate with 0 SPs.)7
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The old method of how to deal with semi close friends needing support still works:
1) Redirect their call to voice mail.
2) If the mention computer problems, ignore them for now.
3) Call back in at least 4 hours. By then, they've probably solved it using Google.
(Why "semi close friends"? Because if they're close, I take their calls and if they're not close, I'm not their free support service. And if they're close and want a lot of free labour, they'll soon find themselves distant.) -
Asked stuff on stackoverflow, getting a -1 and suggestion to close the question.
I want to change my career.5 -
So I got my GCSE results back yesterday. Its the first year with the new 1-9 grading system, and I was really hoping that I could get a 9 in computing (I did in the mock).
What I got? Well. I got 138/160 marks total. What did I need to get a 9? 140/160 marks. 2 marks off of the best grade. 2. I was so damn close.5 -
Open Visual Studio with existing project. After a while closed it due to accidentally clicked the close button.
Open back the Visual Studio again...
Opening the recent project...
**Project is (unavailable)**
Is okay, I can always close and open it back again. And I have done it!
The previous opened tab all is gone.2 -
Yet so far away! I didn't realize that 25% of the way to a goal was "So close". Math was not this developer's strength I suppose.
Tomorrow, I'll tell my product manager I'm "so close" to completing our latest Epic.
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The new MacBooks look so nice. And Mojave is pretty nice, and dark theme! And the touch bar! The price is quite high but for the first time I'm actually debating getting one... Almost. But:
Why no escape key apple! You were so close! A physical escape key at the cost of your touch bar being 1 inch smaller! Is that too much to ask!
Many programmers use Mac. I can see why, it's a bsd variant, it's almost a Linux box except it's supported and accepted by the non-geeks of the world.
Many programmers use Vim! It's great!
So it stands to reason that a "not insignificant" amount of Mac users use Vim. Why would you do this to us? Or at least offer a "Vim model! With physical escape key, some nice out of the box vim buttons for the touch bar, a greatly inflated pricetag... Yknow, the works!" But nothing?! You almost had me apple.6 -
I accidentally payed around EUR14 from the train station close to my home, to the station close to work. It's one fricking station from my home to work, or a half hour walk.
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I sometimes accidentally press back two times when I close a rant. Can there be something like: "press two times if you wanna close"?2
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I got tired of the tedium of navigating dropdowns and required fields to open and close user stories, so I wrote a script with the following syntax:
./ticket open TICKET TITLE GOES HERE
./ticket close <TICKET #>3 -
iphone = a beautiful jail
android = open source jungle
tired of ios ... fucking close platform :(11 -
I am getting really close to actually FINISHING the avatar editor, this took way less than I anticipated but there are still many bugs in that thing that I haven’t discovered yet and that I have already discovered.4
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so close yet so far :(
anyone got any tips for how to remove unused css? is there any tool that can remove classes from bootstrap i don't use?
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Ever happened you find yourself deep into a function holding onto lots of unused parameters and after 6 hours of diving you close the editor, close notepad++, shutdown the system, put the laptop under the mattress and lock yourself in the wardrobe2
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Don't know if anyone posted this, but I did a random search for "terahertz computer".
I found 2 interesting things:
https://extremetech.com/extreme/...
https://sciencedaily.com/releases/...
So DARPA actually built a terahertz chip and some people in the middle east have developed tech for a light based chip.
I don't know about you, but I so WANT a terahertz capable CPU.4 -
That moment that you are browsing devRant and instead of clicking the previous page button, you close a window on your 2nd screen to the left.
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That feeling when you insert the driver disk for a wireless adapter to find they actually do provide Linux drivers!!!!!
Nobody ever provides Linux drivers, this is a god send! Thank you!
That feeling when they don't compile correctly! Damn you! ASUS pls. Halp. You're so close to being amazing. -
I was so close to switching to windows until this automated update just prevented me from working all morning....
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I should close this window.
But.. this article is short and moderately amusing.
Ok, now i should close this window.
But.. look at those pictures.
Ok, we are at the end of the article. I should close now.
But.. look at those comments.
Hmm, cool comments, close now.
But.. look at that interesting next article.
Hmm..
***Newsletter popup***
closes window. -
I use this app from Laptop and It does not have draft facility :(
Could you just make this popup close by clicking on close button only not from outside area of popup
:(5 -
On build "Access to the path 'bin..' is denied". Close and reopen Visual Studio. Fixed. Repeat every hour.4
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Been working in a company that forces me to double up as their IT guy, getting dangerously close to socking the next guy who says they don't see their network drives. DANGEROUSLY CLOSE!!!! PUSH ME MF, PUSHHHH MEEEEEEEE!!!!1
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Nothing makes me close a job description faster than the word "actuarial". Actuarial anything sounds boring af.
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Make an application that, whenever the left mouse button was clicked, it would open a dialog asking if the user really wants to close the top window if activated. Every time they would click it would say "Are you sure you want to close Microsoft Word?", in Word, for example.
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You know those "door close" buttons in elevators that do nothing, but give impatient people something to do while they wait for the door to close on its own?
Devrant's -- button is the same, isn't it?8 -
Illusionism, hands down. Although chess and speedcubing are close seconds in my list of geeky non-dev activities. 😀
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by eradicating every form of competition or anything which is close to making any student feel inferior
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Such a hard year. So many personal trials and tribulations. Only good part, the boyfriend is super supportive(and damn sexy) but Lord knows I am very close to a break down. Dangerously close.13
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I've close alot of change request before but this one is just one stubborn change request that won't change to close status. Therefore I conclude that some change request are immortal. Why don't you just die and close and resolve :p
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A close button for a filter menu, according to UX, users could not figure out how to close it... We guessed those sames users also do not use windows, linux or mac os... WTF
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40GB with 4g on the phone
12Mbits/0.5Mbits (down/up) Adsl at home (no fiber close-by)
Please France... -
Friday afternoon.
Close to finish a Task that took quite some time and research.
Loose connection to Server.Try some stuff.. Eh, okay restart.
Can't login. Windows account is banned. WTF?
Now I have to spend the whole weekend with this close to be solved problem in my head..
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