Lots of legacy code.

You will never exit this fitness club. 😜

You know what really grinds my gears?

Seeing a 5-line comment, that have absolute no value, for a variable declaration.

Example:

/*
*
* String that holds a delivery address.
*
*/
public String deliveryAddress;

This thing has haunted me since I left school...

I've talked with my friend about what does that mean to work as QA. It seems all they do is watching yet vids with kittens and slacking off, and basically they are useless.

But then, it clicked. They are people to blame first if shipped product have bugs.

I wonder if one day, one dev just thought(after getting reprimanded by his boss for bugs in the final product): "hey, I don't need to listen to this, we can hire a guy for that!

When you start inspecting code of the page you are using, and you find something like this...
Not sure if I want to make this reservation anymore...

You know that you've just gained few levels when you found out about magic in vim.

:help magic

Also term "very magic" is superb.

Running.

Just had a Skype call that explained a Skype chat about the fact that I can't do anything on a task, because we are waiting for another (external) dev do finish his work.

Time wasted for Skype chat: 10 min
Time wasted for Skype call: 20 min
Time wasted for stopping myself from doing any harm to the user: 30 min

My pm requested me to estimate few tasks on a new project(single page app), the problem was that he was creator of these tasks, so we ended up with

- Create back button
- Create next button
- Create table with contents
... etc

As I prefer to take things literally I estimated each task as they literally should (5 min for adding buttons etc). So all tasks together were estimated for about 5h, while whole project was estimated for 100MD. After few talks and discussions we ended up with:

- Create back button
- Create back button logic
- Create next button
- Create next button logic
etc

Most pictures shared here are in so poor quality it is hard to read text.

Do people post so low quality pics, or dev rant has to compress that match?

Few text editors' learning curves. Emacs won the competition ;)

“java.util.Date”
Salvador Dali
Oil on canvas, 1931

People rant here about how they hate documenting things or writing tests or whatever.

Yes these things are not the most interesting but I have a feeling that we are forgetting about most horrendous of tasks - estimating. Especially in agencies. Especially related to altering legacy features. Especially big projects.

I mean, I'm spending time doing something that is basically dev's Voo Doo, hoping that I will be right... and usually I'm not.

People who send to you an email instead of talking to you despite the fact they sit next to you.

Ranting about not having anything to rant about. It feels so unnatural...

When you answer the same question, from the same guy, for the Nth time about why this thing you developed N months ago works as it was designed, based on his requirements.

And at the end you can't really be mad, because he is super friendly and being sorry for that... again...