"a 5% feature (used by less than 5% of all users) is a distraction for all the other users, and is better removed, unless it’s really critical (a small number of users do need to cancel service, for example)." - Neil Hunt

Adding some <br> or &nbsp; for spacing... we all have done it. Admit it.

The emphasis on "team" to the exclusion of the individual (thanks in no small part to Scrum) is destroying the software developer career. It's a pendulum. There are always team/company goals AND personal goals. However, these days, the rhetoric is ALL about the team: everybody on a team has the same title, get rid of people who don't conform to some "collaborative", "open space", "colocated" ideal, etc. OKRs are entirely about giving everybody the exact same goals. I remember sitting down with managers throughout my career to talk about where I want to be in a year. What skills I wanted to explore. There were no guarantees, but the generally accepted idea was that nurturing the employee helped retain the employee. Now, there is only the idea that every developer should have the same "T-shaped" skillset, that all team members are the same, that all teams are interchangeable, that all developers are nameless cogs. It is demoralizing. If I were to give any advice to those looking to enter the industry as a developer right now, it would be "Don't". Because you will be told that being a "hero" is a bad thing. In what other industry does management tell its producers that they don't want people to go "above and beyond", and that if they do, they won't get credit for it because the credit always belongs to everybody.

Just been hired as a mid level developer for an IoT company. With considerable benefits and pay increase!

YES!!

Drop database owncloud;
Create database nextcloud;

Client: we need you to give us access to the code ASAP. We don't like this black box approach.

Me: You have always had access to the code. It is here on this bitbucket repo and your usernames have admin access.

Client: We want the code moved to our GitHub before EOD.

I check out how to move repos over and it's fairly easy.

Me: just give me access to create a repo on your GitHub account and you can have the code moved over.

Client: Sorry it's late in the day and we stepped out to get drinks. (It was 2:30 pm). Not sure why you think there is a rush on this, we'll handle it first thing next week.

Me: WTF

*Sighs opening email*

L.E.D. Zeppelin

trying to subtle influence the kids. custom desktop on learning-computer

My protest poster 😁

.push-up-bra {
margin-top: -25%;
overflow: visible;
}

So apparently iOS 11 doesn't allow you to add up 1+2+3 as it tells you it's 24 and you can't type the letter "i" as it will be converted to some non recognizable character, so my question now is, who tested this and who got brutally murdered?

i++ || die( );

Please stop reposting. It's annoying.

That is all.

Mr. Robot

Inspiring the generations...
In Tech world everyone is welcome to achieve their goals and taking the world to new levels together.

I used to work in a role that was basically tech support for engineers. Folks would call, we'd look at their code and see where things were going wrong.
One customer calls in, they're having timing problems with a satellite control system.
I dig down through their code, and buried in one of the modules is a comment to the effect of:
"Once we upgrade to Windows 98, we'll need to change this call to the precision counter"

They never did.

This system was running XP.
Somehow, they'd avoided destroying satellites despite having the code run on Win98, and ME without fixing that call. It wasn't until they upgraded to a multi core system and XP that their gyros stopped responding correctly.

Holy shit.

!rant

Anonymous claiming in their youtube video that NASA is about to announce the discovery of intelligent alien life.

I would be more astonished if they found intelligent life here on earth.

Big day today.
Three hours ago, we welcomed our new daughter to this world

So who prefers tabs over spaces?

What's the Object-Oriented way to become rich?
Inheritance

Do you wanna build a Program?
Come on it can be in C
Doesn't compile anymore
bugs to report
Perhaps a parsing tree
We used to be peer buddies
And now we're not
I wish you would tell me why!-
Do you wanna build a Program?
It doesn't have to be in C.

Stackoverflow, Anna

Okay, bye

Warning : I am tired and in a bad mood, so here goes the rant.

1) This is not Facebook, 9gag or the likes. I don't want to see pictures of your cat, view, sunset or food.

2) Just stop with the algo-match screenshots, it works - great. I don't care you find the relevance amusing.

3) If you are in high school, college or University, sorry - you are a student, stop ranting about your fellow students struggling to learn. That's why they are there - help them instead of putting yourself on that high horse.

4) I accept not all "rants" should be rants, knowledge sharing is good - but this is not Stack Overflow. If you find or are interested in something cool - dev related - and you do your search right to find other's have posted about it, continue that thread. Otherwise, in my opinion - share. I love to learn new stuff even if it's not related to what I do usually.

5) One OS is not better than another. They each target specific or general audience. Learn your OS before you complain about its lackings.

6) A post well formulated without the need of a meme is a good one. Learn to express yourself in words instead of a meme.

7) don't take a picture of your screen. Your are a developer, right?, you know how to do a screen grab? Spend the few extra seconds to do it right.

There ain't no place like ~

Lol app store

New to programming.
Just learnt about git.

Git is awesome!!

@dfox @trogus How about a !rant option to automatically inform users that the rant isn't really a rant?

If you hold up a UNIX shell to you ear, can you hear the C?

How do you feel when there is no coffee??

Me: Depresso

These colors are hypnotizing! I love brackets.io