My favorite xkcd

Bought Dell PowerEdge R410, x2 Xeon 5500 and 64GB of RAM for £57. My god it's Christmas already!

Pun of the day

Boss: I heard your colleagues hate dealing with code you wrote. Why?
Me: No comment

sitting with friends and trying to book movie tickets online. the cinema simulator shows all good seats as booked. Me: "don't worry guys". open inspect element, changing the seat image from booked to available. now everybody think im hacker... :)

>Friends computer starts to "freeze"
>They say im a computer genius and that i can fix it
>All i had to do was click on the screen once

I need more coding buddies.

'; SELECT * FROM rants; --

Yup, long weird strings are the way forward.

i am newby in devrant. But i think it could be nice idea to implement a poll system. What do you think?

On code review .. #itsTrue :)

while(apocalypses)
{
if(today.getDayOfYear == 256)
{
programmers.congratulate();
programmersDay.celebrate();
}
}

Compilers should just work for raw C with only static memory allocation. This isn't the bad old days where a couple of dudes wrote a short book explaining how C might probably should possibly work. I hear supposedly we have standards now.

Well, last week I lost 2 days to our compiler randomly forgetting that it wasn't okay to put a globally allocated uint32 at an address ending in 9. What? It had been handling this case without issue for more a year, but now after changing completely unrelated code we have this problem.

I'm not sure how to even deal with this idiocy so no doubt I'll continue working on it this week, too.

Thanks a lot, GCC.

Programming python requires to have a snake as a pet.

Am I the only one who hates cable management like this with zip ties? When one cable needs to be replaced you have to cut a bunch of zip ties and re-zip tie everything! Use Velcro!!!!!!
(I know it's not a dev rant but my old IT self came out)