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Client: “We need a very simple app where waiters speak orders, and it prints automatically. No typing.”

Also client:

Speech-to-text with noise

Identify table, dish, modifiers

Group orders per table

Add more orders later

Dual printer output

CSV reports

Budget? Less than a round of beers at the bar.

joke/meme web-dev ai clients unrealistic-expectations sarcasm speech-to-text devrant programmer-life software-estimates freelance voice-recognition

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I was looking for a new job, but, after some days my boss give me a rice.
Did he smell it?

rant job new job

8

Quarantine

joke/meme quarantine covid-19 dev

3

A: dns record.
AA: batery
AAA: batery
AAAA: dns record

rant dns

5

Our job is to making bugs unconsciously.

joke/meme software bugs voting

4

Task: Use random string in url to prevent cache.
Me: `<script src="lightbox.js?random"></script>`

rant random javascript task web

3

I need to install homebrew in my OS X so i go to brew.sh

brew.sh: /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(....
me: ok, need to install ruby
ruby-lang.org: brew install ruby

rant ruby loop macos homebrew

2

Me all the time I work in Drupal.

joke/meme drupal joke

2

Dear Bitbucket Team.
i just want to tell you that i think that i can write 'git clone'

rant bitbucket git

2

My boss ask me to install Time Machine in my computer to track my activity and take screenshots, but i'll not installing it because i'm remote and it's my own computer.

rant boss activity timetracking

2

Javascript devs

joke/meme undefined meme function javascript joke

6

What to do if the client does not ask for changes?
This makes no sense.

rant clients no changes changes i'm still alive?

4

Task:
Prevent users deleting items from the tokenInput.

Solution:
onDelete: function(item){
$("#token_input").tokenInput("add",item);
}

rant javascript joke jquery tokeninput

Java Dev: Stop building javascript frameworks!!
Me: npm install java

rant javascript java framework npm

1

What happen when you don't have a rubber duck on a dev-night.

joke/meme programing dev rubber night beer

1

I don't program for cowards

joke/meme dialog confirm

3

git commit -am "doing work of <team_mate_name>"

joke/meme commit team work git

5

What is the Stupidest solution to a problem that actually worked?

question solution stupid

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