Why did Nintendo stop making the Wii U? It was time for a Switch!

Within 20 minutes of posting a question on stack overflow it was down voted - with no explanation. Fucking hate that site

Memory leak. Fuck off

watched first two episodes of mr. robot and it seems pretty good so far. does it go like other hacker shows/movies or does it stay good?

about 6 years ago I was working for a large consulting company on a government project. I put in a change for a stored procedure that hard coded the partition to 0, except 0 didn't exist on production, just on test. several thousand government employees couldn't access it for a day. 😞

I almost died of hypothermia as a kid. My drunk grandpa went out to drink even more with his friends, forgetting about me and leaving the stroller with me sleeping out there on the street. It was negative forty-two degrees Celsius. I was one year old.
I made it, but developed an awful pneumonia. By some kind of miracle, I made it again, but at the expense of becoming a really weak kid. I had two more pneumonias during high school, plus one case of sinusitis.
Told my grandma I got ear pain in the morning. We went to our local clinic. The doctor there said I have to be hospitalized RIGHT NOW, otherwise it might turn into a life-threatening meningitis. By the time we’re in the hospital, the pain is already unbearable. My vision becomes blurry and dark, I hear my pulse in my head, I lose the sense of time. At that point I’m laying on the hospital bed, motionless, quietly sobbing while the terrible pain is swallowing me, a tiny kid, whole.
I’ll never forget the sound of a sinusitis needle crushing through a porous bone inside my head. A glass worth of pus rushing out. The pain immediately going away.
All that because of one man addicted to alcohol. This is why I don’t drink.

Dear Windows,

y is it that Windows Defender is suddenly closing down apps, I opened on my own, and have been using and interacting with for ages since I installed this OS?

How the fuck is this unwanted software?

Fuck you.

when you tell your boss 'we need to talk' and he looks genuinely worried 😀

swag link says you need 20 +1's for stickers and 175 +1's for ball from each post. clicking on Learn More it then says you need 15 +1's for stickers and 150 +1's for ball from each post.
How about some stickers for spotting a content issue?

Use the terminal inside ide or external?

had an interview at a place that went good at the technical part but I didn't do great at their 'abstract' questions. the guys interviewing were complete stone faced as well, no personality, pretty sure I wouldn't have liked working there anyways. a few years later and they are still looking for people. the recruiter rings up and I said I wouldn't want to re-interview unless the process had changed. he guaranteed me it had. so I went back in and it was exactly the same. exactly the same technical questions, followed by more abstract questions. different guys but same no-personalities. never going back

At what point do you leave?
I totally get Amazon's principle of 'disagree and commit' but how many disagreements with your COO, CEO, does it take to make you say:
Fuck this, I'm out of here

Devrant freezes when switching to different app then back again. A bit random though, has happened a couple of times but can't reproduce it.

jenkins tests passing but travis failing. now travis passing but jenkins failing, aargh!

more beer needed...

the cake is a lie

Blockchain
Or at least I hope so

in the hospital with surgery and our deployment goes wrong, so glad I work with really good people!

Spent the day with people I work with developing an Alexa skill to kick off a Jenkins job. Fun!

when github autocorrects my pull request message that contains the word splunk.
(or when devrant also decides to)

When commenting it would be nice to see the comment you are commenting against. Often they are long with several points and you can't refer back to it

this has probably been mentioned before but how about edit functionality on posts?

Apple's certificate and provisioning profile shite can fuck right off

Crap Gemini

If you're always too busy doing the wrong things the wrong way, you will never have time time to do things right

PUT vs POST vs PATCH
And none of them fit!

I found myself tonight imagining what a conversation between Cheech and Chong about serverless would be.
Maybe the basis for a new talk?
Suggestions please

Conferences are lonely places

Anybody else get shouted at by partner when you put all heavy stuff at front of conveyer when shopping, or rearrange dishwasher so more things will fit, etc. I thought I was just being logical about these things...

Suggestions for UK conferences please, already going to devoxx, anything devvy would be good, or architecture or web related

Work has set us a challenge to build a rock/paper/scissors/dynamite/waterbomb api. We have the spec for what json is expected incoming and outgoing. We are allowed to implement any way we want and with any language we want. We are considering using Clojure but we have no experience with it, hence we will hopefully be learning as we go. Would you recommend using a framework like Pedestal, Hoplon, Luminus, or just use Leiningren or something else?

Feature request: please allow the app to work in landscape and rotate. I can't get to the hamburger menu in bottom right due to broken screen

In client terms, a “3rd party” is akin to Angelina Jolie. Despite the promise that you’ll be able to have an enlightening conversation over a nice meal and hopefully hook up afterwards ... sorry, it ain’t happenin’. You’re just gonna have to fantasize about it while you take care of business yourself.

Opinions please. When end user is not paying for service, who is my customer? For example public facing government project

Cheers for the stickers!

I'm starting to look at how to get devices to send data to an endpoint for storage and analysis. I'm looking at AWS iot stuff like core and green grass but then I'm thinking that a REST API could also do the job. I don't need to connect devices to each other (in first iteration). Dont think I need any edge stuff either. Anybody have any experience with this?

I wouldn't want the keyboard to record my thoughts, it's my filter.

Double guns (with clicking noise) at the screen when solving a tricky problem

Product, not project!

calling a rest API and it returns a 400 when it's data is corrupt, wtf!

Anybody else feel that the devrant face, when it's expanding/contracting, is laughing at you?

What's a good inexpensive android phone for development. Something 14 year olds could use without breaking

New to the the electronics stuff and I'm building a word clock. Recommendations for a microcontroller that has at least 22 outputs (22 words to light up). Something from Arduino? Also need to plug in for power and use an RTC.

on the middle of my fucking belly a big pimple appeared out of nowhere and when i gently squeezed it a white pus started coming out. it could be a cyst. i hope the drugs im taking aren't responsible for this bullshit!