Alright, since the organizer for the European devRant meetup canceled it (let's not get butthurt/hating etc), I'd love to (with the help of some other people) organize one myself since I was really looking forward to it!

Question would be, who'd be up for it?

Location would most likely be Germany since that's the most central point.

I'd love to hear from you all!

Plot twist

Had a good laugh on this one

[via https://twitter.com/ElleOhHell/...]

When you "fix" a bug not by actually fixing the bug but by disabling the user's ability to cause the bug.

The way I watch TV 👌

This is by far the best please turn off your Adblock I have ever seen. I actually paused my ad blocker 😂

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So today installed this plugin on all my compatible JetBrains IDEs:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugi...

Especially as an Android dev I look at Gradle build progress bars about 99% of the time, so better make them look great while I'm at it.

This is what happens when I'm asked to document something.

Did you insult the new Visual Studio Code icon?
How do you feel now?

How Finnish companies deal with recruiting in 2017:
https://rekry.io/en

So.. Oneplus "forgot" to strip Qualcomm.EngineerMode from release build...

I don't have many regrets in life but one would be that I didn't learn something harder at uni. I should have picked something like CS or cryptography or something like that. Even flat out math or physics would have been super useful.

On the other hand, the finance stuff I now see as common sense doesn't seem so common after all so there's that, and it helped me too.

I learned economics with specialization in finance btw

Never doing unit tests...
Too lazy

Not prepping enough to have passed interviews for MS and Amzn :/

Best joke I have read this week...

the world of smileys is just outrageous 😋

Searching where an event takes place at, Google says "the Earth"

Defragmentation

[via https://twitter.com/jeremiahtolbert...]

I hired a woman for senior quality assurance two weeks ago. Impressive resume, great interview, but I was met with some pseudo-sexist puzzled looks in the dev team.

Meeting today. Boss: "Why is the database cluster not working properly?"

Team devs: "We've tried diagnosing the problem, but we can't really find it. It keeps being under high load."

New QA: "It might have something to do with the way you developers write queries".

She pulls up a bunch of code examples with dozens of joins and orderings on unindexed columns, explains that you shouldn't call queries from within looping constructs, that it's smart to limit the data with constraints and aggregations, hints at where to actually place indexes, how not to drag the whole DB to the frontend and process it in VueJS, etc...

New QA: "I've already put the tasks for refactoring the queries in Asana"

I'm grinning, because finally... finally I'm not alone in my crusade anymore.

Boss: "Yeah but that's just that code quality nonsense Bittersweet always keeps nagging about. Why is the database not working? Can't we just add more thingies to the cluster? That would be easier than rewriting the code, right?"

Dev team: "Yes... yes. We could try a few more of these aws rds db.m4.10xlarge thingies. That will solve it."

QA looks pissed off, stands up: "No. These queries... they touch the database in so many places, and so violently, that it has to go to therapy. That's why it's down. It just can't take the abuse anymore. You could add more little brothers and sisters to the equation, but damn that would be cruel right? Not to mention that therapy isn't exactly cheap!"

Dev team looks annoyed at me. My boss looks even more annoyed at me. "You hired this one?"

I keep grinning, and I nod.

"I might have offered her a permanent contract"

1969 vs 2017

Me: Hey Windows, I would love to use my Bluetooth headphones! Could you please turn on the Bluetooth?
Windows: Nope
Me: And why exactly?
Windows: I don’t know
Me: Then what I suppose to do?
Windows: Turn on Bluetooth
Me: Dude, but you can’t turn it on
Windows: I know
Me: So what the hell I suppose to do?
Windows: Maybe restart the computer?
Me: I’m downloading something man!
Windows: I don’t care

So I restarted it

This made my day.
http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/...

Never laughed so hard before. Worth the time. Totally!

Source: https://blog.toggl.com/world-create...

For those that celebrate Halloween, and for those that can simply appreciate when being a dev IS life... :)

My girlfriend has these :D
(called Code:Deck - available here https://varianto25.com/playing-card...)

Meditation for the rest of us...

Today I discovered MIT OpenCourseWare.

I hate university, and I usually doze off during lectures, but my god, I've been listening to "Introduction to Algorithms" for about 6 hours now, and I'm hanging on to every word.

A colleague showed me this.

Apple has Air
Amazon has Fire
Google has Earth
Microsoft should really create something called Water