When someone asks you "how much do you charge to make a mobile app?" But never say what the app does!!

That moment during your internship when you work on a project using a framework you're not familiar with, with no doc, and absolutely no comments, and you find a file with 1.3k lines of code without the ability to contact the previous dev

Algorithm

Windows 10 upgrade hasFUBAR my laptop 😭

random question: I have a younger friend who is interested in becoming a programmer, but is dyslexic.... does anyone know of any resources/advice I can give him?

A new company is flying me out to interview with them today, wish me luck!

It's how we stay sane

Urge to kill anyone who creates two-state progress bars - 0% and 100% - is rising. Why do you even put the freakin' bar there?

I can't be the only one who has at least once used a single = for a comparison and spent ages wondering what went wrong 😑

how many of us are single?
Programmer life

Compiling successful from the first time - there is smth wrong.

So I am the resident Linux Guru and a contract manager asks me who wrote rm. I guessed and said Dennis Ritchie.

"I thought you were the UNIX Guy" he says. He goes on to claim that Robert Morris wrote it and named it rm after his initials. ... In front of the whole team he did this. Ok.

Did some research and even contacted Robert T Morris at MIT ( his son) and he pointed me to a sight with documentation from the initial UNIX research at Bell Labs where his dad did in fact work with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. Turns out, I was right.

Whenever a link takes me to an article posted on CodeProject

When you work your ass off to meet the deadline and once you miraculously make it, the client decides to wait with the launch for a few more weeks.