DevRant Rant. Was commenting on a rant, then the app crashed. Haven't been able to find that rant since. Also, when creating new rant, I still have the text of my last rant here along with tags. On IOS 12.1

Behold, the SQLite new Code of Conduct:

https://sqlite.org/codeofconduct.ht...

May this be a guide to all current and future projects.

I don't think it's wholly a joke, but it is a jab at those who seemingly cannot live without having a CoC everywhere. Especially in projects, they do not actually participate in. Now watch as this gets blown out of proportion, because this will make some people really, really angry.

I truly hope this stays up!

Omg, when does the Stupid stop? New Zealand just passed a law that empowers immigration officials to compel travellers to unlock their devices. Otherwise, you pay a hefty fine. They are also allowed to copy the data and do God knows what with.

The horrible invasion of privacy aside, it also brings with it some legal hurdles. What if you are making a presentation or report to an investor or someone you have a fiduciary obligation with. You are carrying IP bound by several NDA's and other funding red tape that would end your life if it got out. Are you in breach if the data gets copied by the gov officials? Worse yet you have zero control over what they do afterwards.

I don't think any of this inspires investor confidence.

Government needs to stop touching things!

It's been a crazy month. Python, redis, Linux. But this one should be a bit closer to home.

Telltale games, a US game development studio is winding up and let go all their staff without severance and were told they had 30 minutes to leave the premises.

Most of the devs were living paycheck to paycheck because of the high cost of living. Some were hired a week earlier and uprooted their families to work there.

That situation is bad enough. But what's worse is the sheer lack of empathy by the customers for the staff. They just want their product cone hell or high water. One even insisted that the devs should work for free until they deliver...

Pleasing the customer should never come at the expense of your staff. We still have a long way to go as an industry

https://youtu.be/QoEHVABcVkw

Where were you during the Linux Revolt of Fall 2018?

Just how the hell did we get here!? The culture war has no place in our community. People push their code under anon pseudonyms. When even.the normies are getting scared, you know we're in a very dark place.

https://youtu.be/v5VvJiNUCIA

Bwhahahah! Even after the excitement, business disruption, unpleasantness and pain, GDPR fails at its one job

https://newstatesman.com/science-te...

Apple A12:

• 7nm
• 6.9B transistors
• 6 CPU cores
• 4 GPU cores
• 8 “neural” cores
• 5 trillion ops/sec
• 512GB addressable storage
• Oh and the rest of the “stuff” for a SoC

tl;dr Apple is the leading chip innovator and creator in the world.

Don't @ me

While we mourn this dark future of the internet, let it not hamper International Developer Day!

Happy Day of the Programmer Devrant!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Oh no, apparently GDPR is worse than we thought. Just look at the linked thread. The government needs not to touch anything

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/...

It has happened again. The EU has passed article 11 and 13 which has now doomed the internet for all EU Citizens.

After GDPR passed, tons of people became more aware that the EU parliament has that much control over everyday life things. Thus there was much more scrutiny over what else they may pass.

Despite expert testimony on why the articles are bad, they rejected all amendments and passed it as is.

It is no longer worth it to serve EU customers. I’m sorry guys, but I’m out.

https://kutt.it/Ngqg9u

name your db nodes after GoT characters, to remind yourself you shouldn't give a shit when they die.

Is privacy really that big a deal some of the more tin-foil hats make it out to be? Look at Estonia, their government knows every last detail about an individual citizens life. Result: they are basically in a golden age as everything is efficient as there is zero red tape. This is what technology can achieve if we don’t bog ourselves down with non-issues

TIL if you know the password for a WIFi SSID, you can replicate it with your hardware. All devices that have credentials for that SSID will connect to yours if your signal is stronger. The encryption just needs to be the same (wpa2/wep) The underlying UUID doesn’t matter.

Not bad for a quick and dirty man-in-the-middle attack. The WiFi spec needs a bit more work.
TLS all the things!

“So, using whatever language you want, php, python, perl, javascript, program something that gets today’s date and time, then writes it to a file.”

Me:
$ date > today.txt

“We don’t feel you have the right skill set.”

https://stilldrinking.org/interview...

1. Sets up Airbnb listing for Mom
2. Domain check
3. Email check
4. Okay let’s setup a simple one-pager that we can share

*Uses html5 broilerplate and embeds Airbnb listing - simple*

Checks page, it comes up blank...

WTF!!!??? WHY!? *Checks Console: 1 million errors screaming about Content Security Policy*

Sigh, I can deal with logic errors in backend code. WebDev is just so full of esoterics and gotchas that have nothing to do with you business logic. They make really simple and trivial shit way more painful and harder than they need to be... Ugh

https://bbc.com/news/...,

Between this and GDPR, were going to create a great firewall that will just block all network traffic to the EU. They don’t get how the internet works. Government shouldn’t touch things

My kingdom for Postgres queries that run under 40 minutes...

Wow! Thanks @bitsnpieces!!!

When the client doesn’t give you the required permissions to run your scripts

When some gotchas aren’t documented so you need to trial and error the api

!rant

Congratulations @linuxxx!
https://reuters.com/article/...

65 days till internet doom...

Selling a solution to a high-value client, promise them they'll get a Proof-of-Concept by Monday 10 am. You close yourself off your family the entire weekend as things weren't as simple as you thought. Present the demo to the client the Tuesday morning...

https://twitter.com/captainsafia/...

This twitter thread got my thinking. Most of the code I’ve written in my professional life has been proprietary. My job also tends to run over the 9-5 band for various reasons depending on the current ongoing projects. When I get home I still have a house to run and a family to tend to. As such my GitHub has been mostly untouched since university some years ago. I’ve tried committing to a few oss projects but I just can’t find the time. However, it is an *expectation* in our industry that you have published projects and lots of public GitHub commits if you want to be recruited by another company. No other industry works this way and this is crazy and unfair

There is how you think a system works, and there is how it actually works. Unit tests help keep those two ideas in sync with each other

I'll just leave this here:

No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions

https://theguardian.com/technology/...

Guess what came in the mail today! What a way to bring in the new year!

One doesn’t have JavaScript dependency issues if you don't put business logic in javascript

Where were you when Net Neutrality died?