This will sound silly as I was a 6 yo back then. My father had got a computer for doing some office work. He used to do a lot of the stuff using MS Word. I loved seeing the Pipes screensaver marvelling at the infinite combinations of pipes. But, what got me the most excited was Clippy, the infamous Office Assistant. I started using computer just to play around with clippy. Right click, do a trick and stuff. Oh the memories...

There must be a simple, reliable, compatible, battery efficient way to poll an api every ten minutes and send user a notification, right?

AlarmManager : Ok. But who cares about battery anyways?

Google cloud messaging : Ok, you can have battery efficiency. But who lives without Google anyways?

JobScheduler : Ok, but you need Lollipop. Which Android phone doesn't get updates? Oh wait, shit.

So, I fucked up the presentation for my hackathon entry and we had to contend ourselves with consolation prize 😢. Anyways, it was a great experience 😃

Tomorrow is my first hackathon, wish me luck

Just discovered vimium. TIL that I had been browsing web the wrong way

Learning VIM, wish me luck
:w

interface Flyable {
public static final int wings = 2;
void fly();
}

This is a good use of interface a/c to my CS Prof
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Did any of you guys participate in the Ludum Dare?

What the hell is wrong with PreferenceScreen in Android? It's a disgusting horrible piece of shit. It looks awesome, but actually it's a horrible trap. Just wasted a whole day, when I could have just implemented it from scratch myself. Never gonna use that piece of crap again.

Just made a 404 page for my website. What's your take on this?

Give me a single reason, why someone will use XML over JSON. I am trying to parse a XML file in Java and it builds a null document everytime. HELP!!

Someone messed up Google Play's algo REALLY BADLY

So my aunt called because her phone had ran out of storage as she had "by mistake" disabled Play Store,WhatsApp, Browser, Chrome and every other fucking app, and she had to install WhatsApp back. After an hour of struggle explaining her to move her songs to memory card, enabling Chrome and Play Store, installing WhatsApp, I have started to lose faith from humaninty.

To make things worse, every Android phone manafacturer feels obligatory to change the settings app as per their wish and I didn't have a clue where the settings to enable apps were on her phone.

And I had to do all this through a phone call

And I can't say "No"

There should be a button in Android: I'm too dumb for all this stuff

About to git push -f . May the force be with me

So some guys at my brother's college made a sports live score app, which charges 1$ for getting score. He decompiles it, and what we see is bewildering, it is not obfuscated and the link to the json values are hardcoded in the app and the whole login process is just a sham. Seriously, WTF, were the guys thinking!

!rant
What is the best way to learn git properly? And no, man doesn't make any sense to me.

TIL that you should never trust a library

A blessing from Android Police is all it takes... 😁 http://androidpolice.com/2017/03/...

Coding in JAVA has started taking its toll, now while talking, I repeat the same things 2-3 times in different ways. 😥

HELP
I'm new to atom, The compilation error pop-up disappears in 2 seconds. How can I change its duration or make it manually closable.

Not sure if you can do it with git

!Rant
Google just launched network for Google Translate for many new languages including Hindi and it's seriously awesome

When I made my first game, it was the happiest day in my life.
Life goal 1 completed 😃

So I I opened my college's Tech Fest website to check the events and an irritating music starts playing at full volume.

Is it just me or does everyone start having a explosion of ideas for future projects just after closing eyes for sleep? And then next morning, it's blank again.

Making way for upcoming devRant stickers

Distractions are neither created nor destroyed, it just changes from one app to another ;-)
The Law of Conservation of Distractions

Seriously, this is devrant but still photograph of display in all the rants and not screenshots and I used to think just non-dev folks were so dumb :/

We are all Dev (Sanskrit word for God)

Wow, really cool, beautiful, <insert more adjectives here> design, just don't ask me to make it.