To all the programmers calling “ToString()” on variables that are already of type String....

Please stop.

God help us, he has multiplied!

You know your codebase is fucked beyond restoration when a one-dimensional array is indexed using two indices and this formula.

FUCK.

Wow, traveling by ICE (German long distance trains) and one of them is running late.
What a fucking surprise.

Hey, senior developers, is there a reason for this?
I just can't believe it.
The line that makes me wanna kill is the
$("#" + id).val(val);

Taken from a very profesional site.

"A different error message! Finally some progress!"

!rant
Who else is suffering carpal tunnel syndrome?

Machine learning

Being told I'm getting an intern this year at age 19

I have added "NO RECRUITERS. Thank You!" in my About description on LinkedIn.

I really miss the "good old" days when a good F5 hit resolves everything, now i've to wait to "compile" 1M+ npm_modules :(

I see, my IDE has mastered semantics. Next step is to master context as well.

I think having the wrong job can really bring down the quality of life.

My friend has to drive two hours each way to get to and from work. That's four hours wasted commuting.. and his job is service desk agent.
What are the consequences, you ask? He never has a spare second to talk to me, he's quickly developing gray hairs and he has no time awareness.

Having the wrong job is unhealthy and results in a cascade of bad side effects.. When most of your day involves work-related things, that's just wrong. There is no Yin-Yang there. I know because my work life is somewhat balanced.

I know, i know, maybe i'm just too old and know shit about readability of code. Seizure coming.

I guess someone can relate..

Why use boolean for a simple flag when you can use a fucking nullable string? Kurwa no.

........

A young guy I work with burst into tears today, I had no idea what happened so I tried to comfort him and ask what was up.

It appears his main client had gone nuts with him because they wanted him to make an internet toolbar (think Ask.com) and he politely informed them toolbars doesn't really exist anymore and it wouldn't work on things like modern browsers or mobile devices.

Being given a polite but honest opinion was obviously something the client wasn't used to and knowing the guy was a young and fairly inexperienced, they started throwing very personal insults and asking him exactly what he knows about things (a lot more than them).

So being the big, bold, handsome senior developer I am, I immediately phoned the client back and told them to either come speak to me face-to-face and apologise to him in person or we'd terminate there contract with immediate effect. They're coming down tomorrow...

So part my rant, part a rant on behalf of a young developer who did nothing wrong and was treated like shit, I think we've all been there.

We'll see how this goes! Who the hell wants a toolbar anyway?!

Knowledge of the day: A *wishlist* is something you put objects on, to buy them later for yourself.

I fucking hate this about myself in the weekends.

I promise myself to get up early enough and do loads of programming and I end up sleeping in and not being productive all day.

And then at the end of the day I feel guilty.

I hate that.