Building your own test devices.

Sometimes cable management is just so beutiful

Hoo lets do this app on windows with Visual Studio, never done windows desktop apps and I want to learn :D
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2 days later : boot -> linux -> eclipse -> files -> new Java project. 😑😑

Not for me sorry...

I see that many junior level programmers are being given fairly large take home programming test/projects. I think that if you interview someone and check out their git hub or discuss some code together you should not need to also do a take home test. You don't have good interviewing skills and are making your company look bad. I also think it is an incinerate way to waste a candidates time.

When the code is so bad that fixing one thing breaks 10 other things because the code was made to work with broken code.

Just a refresher..

I accidentally started a reindex on a collection that had 14 million records in the middle of the day. Caused an outage in a major portion of our applications for about 3 hours. Worst thing was that once I pressed enter, I realized that it was for the production database, and not the staging database like I intended. I immediately went to go tell the dev ops lead, and he basically said, "whelp, let's just sit back and watch the world burn. Not much we can do about it"

just as Erik Meijer said scrum is the most stupid shit in modern development process. I worked in an organization hires ppl as full time scrum master, which is joke. each day the asks what did u finished yesterday and how long it need to finish the task assigned to u. btw the scrum masters know nothing about programming. come on man how can u finish any serious shit in one day and who cares how much shit others finished. each week just attending those freaking meetings without coding. each programmer are assigned at least 5 bosses, and what the fuck is product manager doing, it's not adding indirection can solve anything.

One week at new job. No Workstation allotted yet. Is that too much to ask for?

I went to Paris for my first interview (that was 1989) for a job of Unix kernel developer. All dressed up. I step out of the elevator and see a young punk with scruffy hair and different colour shoes. I reckon he must be the pizza delivery guy. I ask him "dude, can you please point me to the CEO's office for interview". He said "sure, follow me man, I'll show you". We arrive at a desk, he sat down in the big chair and looks at me with a big smile and says "Ok dude, here we are. I am the CEO. Now let's see how good you are!"
I got the job. And 26 years latet, last week, amazing coincidence: I met him again at a trade show in Paris ... with the same coloured shoes. How cool is that!!!

Good rule...print it out and hang it up!

Sometimes I wonder why my company has a helpdesk for our customers when the help desk doesn't even know how to use the product we sell. I spend more time supporting our helpdesk than I do programming.

Want to get last value of a list?

value = 0
for value in list:
pass

working with 10 year old code :/

Operating Systems Evolution ('something.js' is the best! ahahah)

Anyone else using LaTeX to wright nice looking reports for school and stuff?

True Story!

When did it become OK to make a software installer package 33.8GB. I miss the days when 3MB was a big executable.

i dont like it :((

Just got this amazing gift for my newborn from the guys at work!

If you're a PM, don't complain about the lack of documentation if you only gave your developers 20% less time than they needed just to write the code.

Trying to extend 15 year old code.

Found

#define private public

at the beginning of a sourcecode file....

Time to go home.

Thanks for the stickers!

Greetings from Italy!

What debugging code feels like

When you merge the conflicted branch to master

Dev gets told in the morning there's an emergency fix needed due to a critical issue with the app that's in production and that the fix needs to be in the release that will be cut this evening.
Dev drops everything he/she is working on, works frantically all day to get it in 2 minutes before the deadline.
Release gets cut.
Next day release gets trashed because some exec did not like the size of the font used in some obscure part of the app even though it's been this way for 6 months...

I actually miss pointers

Perfect name of a son

got a call from a recruiter for a job. said "wokey, let's see what you got to offer"
get to the interview, the first question is "why do you want to work in our company?"
me: i don't know, you called me!

One thing that I really hate is experienced programmers who don't threat newbies with kindness and act like "masters of everything"... Don't do that. :/

How it feels to touch instable code