I hate myself sometimes.
I wasted 45 minutes in a 2 hour coding competition... Because I forgot to multiply a number by 3.
Now I'm sad because I got a bad rank due to that wasted time, making me unable to complete the next level because there was not enough time left. :(

'bout to have a job interview for a summer job as software dev. :)

No doubts, the software engineers suggested this.

I hope not too many people followed this advice. It was a tutorial for making your Raspberry Pi act as a network-accessible CCTV camera, and the tutorial was good, but that end part... yikes. Don't just port forward your http stream!

At least I know how I can just have it accessible only through my OpenVPN.

If you type "12oatmeal" in one of my school assignment console games, it plays a beep.
V e r y u s e f u l ™

Why the fuck do Synaptic touchpad drivers suck so much? Seriously, it already crashed my laptop...
And it likes to reverse scroll direction randomly, which is really annoying.

Oh boy, my stuff got delivered. Can't wait to get home from school, too bad I still have 3 hours left...

In our databases lesson, we are going to use Microsoft SQL Server throughout the year.

This shit's setup fails at random, doesn't even start (empty error box??????) on some machines, and when it, uh, works, kinda, it's a convoluted mess.

Help.

Along with the usual sheet of our contact data that our school gives us to check if it is still correct, we now also get a nice, thick layer of privacy policy because of the GDPR. Nice!

Headline of a computer magazine our class gets:
"AI is missing one of its important parts - intelligence"

If you have any project (personal or not, doesn't matter) that does not have proper code comments and documentation and you don't want to make one because of the effort (maybe even "wasted" effort), think again. When commenting on a wall of code to say what it does, you may find a better way of doing what you have to do, possibly increasing performance, or improving security.

I have been able to do better input sanitization for a method on a personal project of mine because of this.
Don't use the amount of effort for proper documentation as an excuse not to make one.

Stickersssssssssss

Today, I'll be participating in both school (10am) and normal (3pm) contests of the Catalysts Coding Contest with some of my classmates.
If anyone of you attends there in Vienna, (Wiener Stadhalle Hall E) as well, good luck!

Samsung.

They basically have Chinese crapware on many phones, disguised as "Smart Manager" or some bs. It's "powered by Clean Master". Clean Master is crapware developed by Cheetah Mobile.

I upgraded a PC with an SSD and had to reinstall twice because windows thought it would be a good Idea just to use the boot partition of the old drive instead of creating a new one on the SSD.

I first noticed that something was weird because I could only delete the system and not the boot partition on the old drive using diskpart. I restarted the machine thinking it would help only for the bios to tell me there was no os on the ssd. I tried booting from the old hdd and sure enough, I landed on the desktop of the ssd install.

To resolve that I had to unplug the other drive, reinstall windows and only then I could boot normally.

60mins of my life wasted as I had just finished installing all the software...

The documentation for the matplotlib python library is terrible for newbies.

There is a "Tutorial" section, but the thing doesn't even explain what you can do until you get to the 4th section!
It starts off with some confusing examples, how to change the appearance and only at section 4 do you actually start to get an introduction to the different components you might want to use...

At some point you finally realize, most of the stuff that is shown can be omitted because the .pyplot module is all you need.

MY SERVER JUST DECIDED TO RESTART TO DO WINDOWS UPDATES!!!

Yesterday evening I stayed up late to install some critical updates manually as I obviously have auto updates disabled.
I didn't quite get everything done so I wanted to continue the next evening when noone was using the server.
Apparently that removed the rule to never ever restart automatically...
🤔🔫

I have my damn router and app server running in a VM on there!!!

From http://reddit.com/r/...

Built a popular App they said.

Classmates having trouble with their mess of spaghetti code and improperly named variables (I saw variable names like "poop" already).

These "non-binary" genders need to stop, I save genders as a boolean

AI defense expert

Small bug: If you scroll down a comment section fast enough, avatars will be wrong (last avatar...)

Kotlin is now officially supported for developing for Android. My life is complete.

!rant

How does everyone here like their coffee?
For every cup I drink, it should be espresso (0.35 litres) with three cubes 'o sugar and a little shot of milk.

Anyone else here hating Python 2 but loving Python 3?

People are talking about Windows VS Linux about security, meanwhile: https://wikileaks.org/vault7/...

When I made an app for a hack someone else discovered for Android's Spotify app that increased the quality without paying for premium :P (Root only) Was based on a bug with enum in the app.

StackOverflow community voting down accepted answers. K.

When you do something from scratch...