Dear devRanters,

I am writing to tell you all goodbye.
This used to be a place where I could find some fellow programmers having similar frustrations, helping me feel not alone in this world. Now it is a cesspool of "look at me! I got a job!" and "it's my birthday!" and much more unrelated unrelatable CRAP..

So to you, people's of the world.. Fuck yourselves for ruining good shit.. (it's a general statement and extends far beyond devRant)

@dfox & @trogus, thanknyou and I still have mad respect for you for creating this. I will treasure my stress ball and avatar forever, and hold dear the moments when this was better.

✌️

!rant

Moments when you realize how simply you can solve a problem that previously seemed dauntingly complex.

These are the moments I live for

I guess I would have the power "whatwhy", which would allow me to understand the what and why of everything I encounter.

I am AI

Boom.

Fuck today.

Today I was supposed to go into work and set up a dozen or so units for beta testing (its been a year and a half coming)..

Got up nice and early to get a head start on things. Stubbed (and broke) my motherfucking toe, then spilled my cereal milk on my laptop.. subsequently spend the following 2 hours tearing down and cleaning my poor little lappy. Get her all put back together, starting to feel a little better about the day. Push the power button, and fucking nothing but a tiny little fan noise for half a damn second.

With this luck I don't even want to move, lest a magic falling anvil decides to adorn my head..

That moment you realize it really is a hardware problem...

They finally came!

All of our products have a 16x2 lcd. Every April fool's we make all of them say some offensive/funny stuff. One year I made an Arduino controller for one of the other engineers units it took him a few hours trying to figure out how I was doing it 'cause he couldn't fix it.

Just started a series of js lessions for my little brother :) this should be fun

... .. .

Uhh.. I guess cat has the power to inexplicably fuck over everything... News to me..

Let's see those snowmen!
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For those of you who enjoy time away from the keyboard(not that far). I mean games, and well.. Legos!

I have a quite large Lego collection that most just sits there and I love games - card, board, video, whatever - anyways I had an idea last night that merges the 2 which has fleshed into a full fledged idea, and I thought some of you may enjoy it..

(Not yet play tested, waiting on a couple friends to come over tonight to give it a shot)

https://github.com/fatlard1993/...

Never give up, and never be satisfied with your code.

Everyone seems to think you've got some voodoo wizard powers and you can do anything *right now*

Best thing for me is being in an environment where I am not only able but encouraged to learn every day. Also sleeping in and working from home are nice bonuses ;)

Rex here decided to take over, I think she may have seen some bugs..

I would probably say my cousin.. We cultivate a unique back and forth that generates a powerful bidirectional influence beam. @blackmarket

There are, of course, other honorable mentions.. past/current co workers, ect..

Math.random()

'Cause I hate making decisions.

Reinstalling my linux partition and... Oh whoops.. ... ...
That was the windows partition.. ...
*face palm*

Well I guess that's gone forever now...

I should have learned by now that I don't multitask well... Note to self: Don't talk on the phone and re inst... Scratch that... Note to self: Do one damn thing at a time dummy..

New Kickstarter project reward in the mail :)
The tau (yata), smaller than I expected! Excited to find a tiny project for this!

Shameless hack:
?b=Math.random()

11 people, 5 hour meeting...
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...
..
... Ugh...

I just got 404'd at the DOL.. How long is it gunna take this time? Will they find my number?

Fucking Apple locked my email again....
'Oh, we have no idea why this keeps happening'
Assholes... You'd think locking someone's account twice within a week without knowing why would be unacceptable, but they just act like it's business as usual..

Apple used to care about its customers, now what? They think they're too big to care anymore? Why don't you go shove your new icrap up your asshole cook!

Add wifi they said..
It'll be a simple addition that adds a ton more usability they said...
Now just tack on access point mode, everything is already there.. that'll be quick and easy they said..

..... no, no, it's not... It's a fucking pain in the ass dammit!!

I suppose I'm lucky.. My family, though not exceedingly tech savvy, are all very proud of me, and support my line of work.

It's 11, isn't that a bit early for a beer?

It's 11:30 somewhere..

Thanks, @trogus & @dfox! Got my stress ball yesterday, brought it in to work today. And here he sits upon his custom pedestal. (his name is Dave, btw.. he just looks like a Dave to me..)

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