When you work for a dev shop and one of the clients buys you out of your non compete to hire you directly. Now I'm my old bosses boss :)

Beware of the layers

probably we need "possible duplicate rant" on devrant ^^

We all know it's true

that feeling

*can't figure out why code doesn't work for hours*
ugh fuck this.
*angrily leaves for bathroom break*
*come running back*
I KNOW HOW TO FIX IT!!!!

after hours of debugging your program without any luck...
wife(never programmed a day in her life): what's up?
me: I can't figure out why this program won't work
wife: oh! you're probably missing a semi-colon somewhere

when everything fails, Notepad++ is your saviour. #alwaysremember

VLC in Windows many times...

"When you have a problem you can't solve, just google it. If you don't find another person that has encountered the same problem/error as you, you're doing something wrong."

- Software Engineering teacher, 2016

A programmer walks into a bar. He says "I'll have 0x01 root beers".

The bartender pours him a root beer.

Another programmer walks into a bar. He says "I'll have 1.0f root beers".

The bartender pours the second programmer a root beer float.

I was asked - what IDE I use for CSS?
I replied - Chrome Developer Tools like a pro!

It would be great if devRant allows me to follow people.

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when it's 1h41 in the morning and you're in bed writing devRants

Anyone else think it's crazy how over engineered it's become to render a website? Why do we need to invent the world everytime??

The developer of this app should post their technology stack so we could rant about how faster and better in general it would be if they used something else! :D

When you could just create a subreddit but decide to build an app instead.

When the client

devRant was featured in a really awesome article on TNW (The Next Web). Please check it out and share it around. Thanks! http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/...

less of a rant more of a wahooo but just had an email offering me an job after i gradute in july ;)

1. Identify the problem
2. Come up with a clever solution
3. Refactor half of your code
4. Watch it fail horribly because you're such an idiot it's a bloody miracle you keep breathing on your own
5. Repeat

Programming: where getting something to break in a different way counts as progress. 🙌🏼

when you spend hours and days working on something and it actually works...am I forgetting something. I don't trust it.

My work day is now:

1. Coffee
2. Code
3. Poop while on devrant
4. Repeat

🙈😝💩

When you rewrite some sloppy idiot's code to be way clearer and straightforward. Then you fix a bug you introduced... and another... until the code ends up looking more or less the same as when you started...

Ask Me Later

why must we play god

Just put in the paperwork to start my own company. I'm pretty excited!

Apply for position as an iOS developer. Nail the interview. Get the job. Get asked to write backend in JavaScript. Now I gotta learn JavaScript.