+1 for emacs.

Learn C++11 or newer, build badass websites using Emscipten and Open GL. Be pissed off that Javascript is still a thing in 2017.

All I can think about is Mom's Spaghetti.

Have you tried links, lynx, elinks or w3m?

<troll>Or just not being a web dev?</troll>

@RYPTAR +1!

C++ after C++11 is truly the best, given the level of support it has on damn near every platform now.

@TacticAlpha Well that was easily the most sexist thing I've seen this year.

@vanhoosr You had a good school!

@magicMirror You didn't ramble on long enough.

Do not touch infantile code, for if you do its mother will detect your scent and reject it.

@mrmarbury I'm an embedded software guy and I eat, sleep, and dream in binary and hexadecimal. It's not a matter if difficulty, it's a matter of pointlessness. Goof up one digit during the conversion and the rest will be garbage.

It's like being asked to do large number modular arithmetic (hundreds of digits) in a cryptography class. Just because it's something that can be asked doesn't mean it should be.

That's a funny way of spelling printf.

Ew. That's awful.

Don't waste your college years. Enjoy learning for what it is. Even when it's abstract and difficult to see the relationship between it and what you want to do for the rest of your working life.

You'll miss it most when you're working 50-60 hour weeks on find-the-effing-semicolon in Joe-who-quit-last-week's shoddy layoff-worthy code.

ESPECIALLY if you think you want to work on games for a living.

Right in the feels.

@runfrodorun That you're basing your opinion of modern Windows' stability off of how it was 10+ years ago.

Windows 7 doesn't crash any more than my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system at work. Actually, it's probably fair to say it crashes *less*, given how shitty Ubuntu is (why oh why oh why can't we just use RHEL...).

@runfrodorun "every example from the last 20 years"

And there's your problem.

Eugh. Let's not politic on Dev Rant.

Fuck the HTML5 video tag.

@ChappIO I can't even

Been there, definitely agree it's lame. Just gotta make sure they don't stick you in the hands! If they already did, ask them to move it. 9 times out of 10 they will!

These are all very good so I think I'll add my personal favorite powertool to your list (I know you mentioned rebase already but I think this one deserves special mention):

git rebase -i

It's like rebase with 290% more magic since you can change how each commit is applied (including changing individual commits!). Oh how I love that command when I have to follow the Gerrit workflow.

It's so true.

The problem is she was forgetting to move the : to the right slightly.

@kshep92 They don't. Google's internal infrastructure may use Python but their externally-facing server code is all C++.

It's all about using the appropriate tool for the job.

My rule of thumb: if I can express everything I want my application to do on a single page then Python is perfect for it! Otherwise...

@tahnik Easy (lazy?) solution: 1000 ++s before you can post pictures.

Engineering! If it ain't broke, take something off until it is!

I think I have a relatively unique point of view on this. I spent 7 years in college getting a masters degree while my sister (who is 3 years my senior) spent the time working. Today she makes 40% more than I do, but I'm the junior engineer and have 6 figures of debt to show for it.

If you go to college, don't do it for the money. If I knew then what I know now (that unless you're targeting a specialty field it's *just* paper) I probably wouldn't even be a software engineer today.

if (!$_POST['username'])
return 'missing username';

FTFY.

...

Refactored that for you? RTFY.

@jeeper lol This is true!