@dfox

@bitsnpieces is almost certainly a ++ bot. He has ++’d 70 of my rants, many of which are from ages ago, not remotely interesting, and didn’t leave a single comment on any of them

My CS professor just told my class of 200 people that 1 is a prime number.

You can practically hear centuries of mathematicians rolling over in their graves

After a year of college give everyone 2 hours to solve a programming problem in the language of their choice. Like implement a doubly linked list, or count the number of primes between two integers or something straightforward. Anyone who can’t do it gets kicked out of the major.

I’m sick of dealing with people who are 3 or 4 years into a CS degree, and can’t do 30-line programming assignments in two weeks. I might have to work with one of these clowns someday and I hope to God that my university doesn’t send them into the workforce with a degree.

I have gotten into a bad habit of staying up late on my computer and then being too tired to go for a run in the morning.

So now my computer automatically shuts itself off at 10:00.

There’s some encouraging to go to sleep.

1. Submit my resume, get an email asking to schedule an interview
2. Schedule the interview
3. One day before the scheduled time, I get an email saying that the interview is being rescheduled to another time two days later (no explanation for why they did this)
4. I clear out my schedule and wait for the interview call (it’s suppose to be at 2:30, but I wait like 15 minutes early because I don’t want to miss it)
5. I don’t get a call
6. At 3:00, I call the company and ask whats going on. They apologize and say my interviewer will call me back as soon as he gets back from lunch.
7. He doesn’t call.
8. At 4:00 I call them back. Apparently the guy who was suppose to interview me went home. I ask them wtf they are doing and if this is how they treat their employees. They said they would reschedule the interview and call me back once they did.
9. No one calls.
10. I wait a week, call them back, and am told that the funding for my position didn’t come through (what does that mean? You’re not hiring programmers to design the software for your billion dollar war machines anymore? Seriously?).

I’ve had it with this company. I don’t know if it was just this incompetent recruiting group or if this is a company full of scumbags, but I mean, really?

This is my life...

You know you’re a nerd when you’re at the gym and you only take lockers that are a power of 2...

When you hash time entries by year and you are freaking out to make sure your server doesn’t crash due to differing time zones while your family is celebrating New Year’s...

I gotta say that I really like Christmas trees if for no other reason than they are nearly the only type that aren’t upside-down.

🎄

We call “Binary digITS” “bits”.

So then what would we call ternary digits?

A CodeForces rated educational round. Now I’ve seen it all.

So I currently use Edge as my web browser (and DuckDuckGo as my search engine) because I avoid Google’s services when possible. I have heard several good comments about Firefox recently. Is it worth the switch?

Devrant suggestion:

Add a "Copy XKCD" to the list of possible rants. It definitely happens enough to warrant its own category at least...

Yes! YES!!!! Make my website marquee, Wordpress!

More marquee! MORE!!

Just bombed my first interview. Let's hope everyone else was even worse...

So apparently Package Manager Console adds 6 hours to the boot time of Visual Studio...

I was wondering why it took so long to start up.

I was in my way back from work when this guy speeds off the on-ramp onto the highway and almost hits me.

I suppose you could say that it was a pretty serious merge conflict...

Hang on a sec now...

Debugging programs is like trying to cut all of the corners off of a square. You might get them all, but when you look again, you now have 8 more.

Eventually, you get sick of the exercise, so you redefine your 1024-sided polygon to be a circle, because all the corners are features anyway.

Hey guys?

If you are going to just straight up copy and paste an XKCD comic onto devRant, at least give them the credit they deserve for coming up with it.

Thanks.

I have officially leveled up.

The fates of devRant...

@dfox

How hard would it be to stylize the "[read more]" part of rants that get too long?

As a programmer, this is painfully unsatisfying. Just make it 2048 and everyone would be happy.

(As of Tuesday at 10:00 PM) We have a project with a hard due date Sunday.

We have yet to get a proof of concept finished.

My team has no grasp on reality or how long this project is going to take.

I'm screwed.

Why was Vista afraid of 7?

Cuz 7, 8, 10!

Coworker: So should we just make a living document to keep track of how all these objects are going to interact with each other?

Boss: No, are you kidding? No one reads documentation!

I mean... he has a point...

So I was looking through my year-old code and found this.

I'm a pretty funny guy.

Enlightening.

Yes, this is actually a real thing.

I wonder in what you learn in the prerequisite "Keyboard and Mouse skills" class if this one teaches you how to type and delete text...