Stackoverflow.

i just want to remind you of this great book! :D

When you use a new technology without reading the documentation first.

The day has come. Finally purchased Sublime Text :)

It happened.

I wrote "you're missing a tab in your python code" as an answer on StackOverflow.

I was downvoted AND told that I wasn't correct: it was missing 4 spaces and not a tab, according to the python guidelines.

Now, I haven't read them, but my Richard Hendrix fucking intensifies.

Fuck spaces. And if python guidelines talk about spaces, fuck python guidelines too!

No. More. Writing. Code. On. A. Fucking. Piece. Of. Paper.

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Non-dev buddy: Dude I'm gonna report you to the tech department what are you hacking??
Me:

Gf: "Why are you such a typist"

Me: "I promise not to buy more keyboards with blue switches..."

Gf: "No, I mean like being racist or sexist, but you discriminate types"

Me: "Uhhh"

Gf: "You are always bitching about how awful date/time types are, with timezones, leap seconds and daylight savings"

Me: Face turns pale, thousand yard stare, vietnam-flashback to when I was writing a calendar scheduling/meeting/matching tool which used 3 databases, with timestamps in different formats, and web frontends for people in offices around the world.

Me, with a soft broken voice: "So?"

Gf: "You've been working on that palette tool this week, and you keep talking about how interesting all these colorspaces, white balances and conversion formulas are"

Me: 🤔

I had a secondary Gmail account with a really nice short nickname (from the early invite/alpha days), forwarded to another of my mailboxes. It had a weak password, leaked as part of one of the many database leaks.

Eventually I noticed some dude in Brazil started using my Gmail, and he changed the password — but I still got a copy of everything he did through the forwarding rule. I caught him bragging to a friend on how he cracked hashes and stole and sold email accounts and user details in bulk.

He used my account as his main email account. Over the years I saw more and more personal details getting through. Eventually I received a mail with a plaintext password... which he also used for a PayPal account, coupled to a Mastercard.

I used a local website to send him a giant expensive bouquet of flowers with a box of chocolates, using his own PayPal and the default shipping address.

I included a card:

"Congratulations on acquiring my Gmail account, even if I'm 7 years late. Thanks for letting me be such an integral part of your life, for letting me know who you are, what you buy, how much you earn, who your family and friends are and where you live. I've surprised your mother with a cruise ticket as you mentioned on Facebook how sorry you were that you forgot her birthday and couldn't buy her a nice present. She seems like a lovely woman. I've also made a $1000 donation in your name to the EFF, to celebrate our distant friendship"

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Dear gradle, no offense but I believe Rome took less time to build!

So, I've got some free coupon...

that moment when you are busy

Friend: Oh, so you are software dev. What do you write mostly at work?

Me: bugs

Thanks @dfox for adding the double tap to upvote feature, I mean, bug. You're a saint

correctly named devices

The only thing I disabled was this pop up.

!rant Spotted this in the bookstore among the 'for Dummies' 🤘 My faith in humanity is restored!

The best answer

And that was enough encouragement

please don't...

On his first week at job, the junior says:

Hey guys! Check out this new website I found! You'll thank me later.

When you come back to your own code after days

IP Man == Network administrator

me while fighting with css

Art is everywhere..😘😘😘

Normal people have side chicks
Developers have side projects

Sometimes I don't give a dam naming my classes since I know not a lot of people will see this. At least I'll make a dev laugh!

I knew I was about to get laid off so I stopped caring and started answering questions on stack overflow all day every day instead of working.

10k rep later I got a new job via stack overflow careers that pays twice as much.

Moral of the story? Be efficient... even when you are not.

What i have been doing so far
1) create project
2) search google for help
3) copy & paste
4) compile
If not working GOTO 2, else
5) feel good for days