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My PM googles some really weird things. One day I saw him googling "how to play songs during phone call android"

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Found this at work today.

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The look on our interns face when he rebooted the wrong server by mistake.

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Coworker: I've got an error, can't figure it out...
Me: Send error
Coworker: NullPointerException
Me: fml

Sr. my balls.

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Today is my last day at this job.

Can't tell you how happy I am to be leaving this place in about 7 hours.

Starting my new job in January, so I get 4 weeks of nice vacation/ family time.

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Honey, I love you, but plz I'm trying to focus

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nixcraft being nixcraft.

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You know who exactly you are...

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Installer wizards!

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That's very nicely handled Eclipse!

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Would wearing a Google tee on the first day of my internship(elsewhere) put forward the wrong impression? Like it's a startup and the culture (supposedly) is really chill but I'm not too sure.

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What is the best financial advice you've ever been given?

I see a lot of well paid developers in my area living month to month with no plan for the future, what would you tell them?

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Not the hero we deserved, but the one that we needed

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Chrome eating ram like:

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Someone got stuck in vim while trying to commit

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Perfectly describing my relationship status...

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>Recruiter: So you have worked with Java for about ten years now.
>Me: Yes.
>Recruiter: What do you like the most about Java?
>Me: ...

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Has anyone ever accidentally typed "pythong" while googling python? Weirdest Freudian slip ever.

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Girl I used to like has ignored my messages for a month. Now she's asking me to fix a shitty WordPress for her.

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Providing work estimation:

Dev: This should take about 2 weeks

Non dev: Really? But it's so simple. Shouldn't be that long right? I think it can be done in one week.

*After one week*

Non dev: Why is it still not done? I thought you only need one week?

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Let's be honest ... we are rock stars!

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When your colleague starts with this

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When you sit in a meeting for hours and don't say a word.

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I work in a fast-changing company. I find it difficult to deal with using new languages / tools every few months. How do you deal with it?

Also, hi! I'm new.

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Discussing a somewhat small and narrow website project with a customer. Then the customer asks me how I'm going to load balance it.

My initial thought was:
You mean how to loadbalance maximum 10 users??

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When the client changes the scope of the project.

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Please select.

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This is soo me reading previous dev code without documentation

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No wonder my installer doesn't work...

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My coworker shared account keys of Amazon aws on a public repo at Github. Took me around 3 days to find out and about 20 ec2 instances were created and running by a hacker...

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