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It's a bad business model. What happens if they don't return? I offer discounts if they are returning customers tho
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I always just had a new customer package when I was freelancing. There were various templates that I had built with different customization options and I would handle hosting for them for 6 months. If they didn’t return it didn’t matter much, but it was usually 50/50. I mostly targeted small-medium sized businesses with shitty sites and using those templates were never much work for me, anything after the package purchase was usually split between minor changes at an hourly rate or larger projects with new contracts. There’s good ways to do it and I found it really depended on the type of business you were working with.
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That isn't a trust issue. They are being lazy or they don't know how to find someone else.
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Tbf finding someone to work on a small business website at a price a small business can afford is hard, especially when the person doing the hiring didn't know anything about tech. It's _really_ easy to hire someone who doesn't know what they're doing, and getting a high schooler your related to is often the best value/risk proposition. Source: I've been that high schooler.
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Who does first time customer discounts in a business where most customers only buy once?
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People who have worked in sales and know that you only let people know about the discount after you've worked to justify the top price. Asking for more than you want is how you get what you want.
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People don't understand maintaining a website is a job.
There's no such a thing as "just change this little bit and I won't bother you again".
Usually I just add several multipliers to my hourly rate, the "I hate fucking websites" multiplier combined with the "I reaaaally don't wanna deal with this crap" multiplier. Usually I'm quoting them $500/hr or some bullshit.
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Lol if they were strangers I might have been able to say that to them, but I didn’t want to be a jerk
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It’s funny because it’s true. Companies usually pay $200k+ on consultants to decide whether to buy SAP in the first place.
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Makes sense though at least in theory. If you might gonna invest a couple hundred million euros for introducing SAP, you probably wanna minimize the risk on that investment. Lidl managed to screw up their project with SAP and aborted it after investing over 300 Million euros into it.
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Also,
"$500? That's outrageous! I found a company on oDesk that'll do it for $300, I'll just go with them."
*six weeks later*
"That company on oDesk gave me code that doesn't work and then ghosted me. I already spent $300 on them so can you take that off your price? I'll even give you the code they sent me so you don't have to do all the work."
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Is this really happened?
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Lol if they were strangers I might have been able to say that to them, but I didn’t want to be a jerk
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Family who is willing to exploit family are jerks -- they should be paying you.
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Family who is willing to exploit family are jerks -- they should be paying you.
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It’s not like that, they offered me a decent rate, I just meant I wouldn’t offer them a ridiculous number like $500/hr to tell them fuck off. I just didn’t want to put the time into it
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When in doubt, print all variable values every time they are referenced and completely ignore the missing semicolon that's causing the problem
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Why do I use this, why I can't understand debuggers?
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My defense is usually, "If the error messages were worth a damn, I wouldn't have to!"
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It's the only option for some vague configuration errors
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One of the funnier posts I've seen lately. How is it not?
Almost like humor is subjective and shouldn't be so strictly moderated.
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Man how dare you, let's see the 1000000 meme about js and 0==[]
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I call this the 'Executive No' and it works great in other situations, too. Like in a corporation when one executive or VP of sales has a great idea for your team. Say 'Yes!' then hit them with the cost.
Usually in a meeting in front of everyone or email chain with everyone and their executive sponsor cc'ed 'Can your team do X?'
'Of course! Here are the steps: for around $xK we do step one. If we start we'll have to move y and z on the roadmap [that's the pet project of some other exec] back a quarter. Then we can begin step 2...(detail more eye watering resources)...and on and on as long as plausible. Then finish saying. 'To move forward we'll need a decision. I can put together a plan. Is it ok if I set up a meeting with the stakeholders that own the projects that will be affected and sponsors if the teams that will need to be involved? I'll send the plan out for review.at that invite because if we are.going to pivot it's much more cost efficent to do it sooner rather than later.'
Hammer on the costs including opportunity costs and insist that a decision needs to be made to move forward or not as soon as possible.
The word 'decision' is important because it signals power and none of them want to abdicate decision power to anyone else if they can help it. It's like a dinner bell to execs.
The execs will generally do all the fighting for you and someone higher up will make the call in short order and you never need to hear about it again...and if anyone is foolish enough to bring it up just shug and point to that final decision.
Works with demanding clients too with the upside that so etimes they'll say yes and pay you buckets of money to execute a now reasonable plan rather than a half thought out wish.
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Be careful with this in corporate environments.
There are places where people do this all the fucking time, and even if you do it innocently (explain all costs involved) you will be accused of torpedoing shit.
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Be careful with this in corporate environments.
There are places where people do this all the fucking time, and even if you do it innocently (explain all costs involved) you will be accused of torpedoing shit.
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True enough.
The defense is to just be realistic.
And be prepared to follow the plan if it is approved.
But most people who bring up 'proposals' (more like wishes) -- I'm looking at you Sales -- don't give a single thought to costs. They just think of the benefits.
And if you cultivate a reputation of kicking ass on realistic projects, that is an effective shield against being seen as arbitrarily torpedoing 'proposals'.
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console.log("1");
. . .
console.log("2");
. . .
console.log ("3");
. . .
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double points if it's a random string of letters or something along the lines of "FUCK THIS"
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Just realised the side of the cube facing the table would not be covered in the paint, so this wouldn't work.
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.Cube-bottom {
Color : red !important;
}
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And it's still not enough. I'm sure the next Chrome update will require a 600 qubit quantum processor in order to run that old web 2.0 website.
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Chrome ain't even the problem, those website makers clutter so much ram eating junk it's unreal! I can't wait 30 seconds for a webpage to load on my phone!
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That’s typically how they’re installed in the northern part of the US. If it’s a smaller unit like that one anyway. Mostly because they only serve a purpose 2-3 months a year. So the rest of the time they sit in a box in the basement.
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Lot of stupid people in the north huh?
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I always love stuff like "This item is not in the dictionary"... WHICH? What item? Which dictionary? WHERE?
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"I don't even have a dictionary???"
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np.cumsum always gets me, and when I’m talking about “Python dicts” I feel like I’m making others feel uncomfortable
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Careful what you say about pandas vectors -- people might think you're going to yeet an endangered bear.
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python devs after they forgot to put a semicolon in their c++ code wondering why the compiler spews out 2 pages of errors
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As a python programmer who is learning arduino code, this is relatable
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Yeah, at least it's not something as weird as 1024 or 128 or... something.
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Yeah, at least it's not something as weird as 0x400 or 0x80 or... something.
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Had an interviewer tell me they wanted someone fresh out of university with 10 years experience.
Incredibly glad to be rejected from that place
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That was me at one point, but with ten years experience no one cared that I finally finished college.
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Definitely a strange number; it should be 255 so that the government (not saying which one(s)...) can listen in.
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As a resident of a 3rd world country, I can tell which one definitely is.
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This is so true. Fuck hostile “senior” engineers.
I’ve actually put a few of those fuckers who report to me on the spot and asked them if they have any issues in their personal life when they treat newbies this way.
Half grown, immature, aggressive dumbfucks.
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Not only senior devs I had a junior who was initially ok. Then after I convinced the management to give him a promotion (which I totally regret) he became a complete ass hole. Eventually he left the company for a over seas job, with minimum notice. I voiced my concerns over his attitude toward the management but they thought I had a personal problem with him.
The cunt was so bad during his last commits he managed to merged by himself (our entire team had merging writes without review verification, this changed after this morons actions) introduced bugs which were sporadic on the application and my team suffered for more than three weeks to resolve them (which never happened). Eventually I had to do a full rebase on the source and work on the features from scratch. Ass hole is still hooting his trumpet (he is a really good con artist, which even I was a sucker for) but lesson learnt. Never higher or work with a dev who has an attitude problem or a god complex. They are more trouble than a resource. Your better off without them. You can always challenge that type of a person on the grounds of harassment or misconduct.
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"Look, if you weren't on the development team of this framework, the job just isn't for you."
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"Look, you may have personally designed this framework, but you just lack the experience with this framework that we need."
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I still remember being a first year student and not quite grasping Nulls until I saw the toilet paper roll picture lol
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Those things really help!
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It's a non technical person still not fully understanding binary and why it plays a part in the person limit.
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It's also interesting that you can add 256 people and not 255, meaning this is not a counter for people but an index of people.
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Shouldn't it be the other way around, seeing how the Jungle book was the original?
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I was thinking *there's no way Mogely just happened to match up with that many cartoons.*
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I was a TA and tutor in college and can't tell you how many times I explained something using a metaphor and it clicked instantly.
Then often was told I was better than the professor at explaining it. So many faculty just don't take teaching seriously.
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Yep, I'm currently a math and CS tutor at uni and metaphors are by far the best way to explain a lot of stuff. I still use chopping fruit as a metaphor for integration!
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It defines the concept of undefined, not an instance of it. Not a paradox.
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I didn't mean it as a paradox, I meant that the one I remember didn't have that box
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Nah,
A developer would spend 10 hours creating a script that detects if the bulb is broken. If so it automatically buys a new bulb, Calculates time for arrival and hires a mechanic to fix it at that time.
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And then spend another 10 years looking for the error that makes it not work
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That last panel got me. It's those moments where you cause production to fail and you quietly fix it before anyone figures out the root cause. "Try deleting your cache. Oh it must have been just on your machine."
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I knew you bastards were doing that! I fucking knew it!
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And then spend another 10 years looking for the error that makes it not work
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I feel personally attacked
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IDK I think it's more important that people don't call you a noob for making redundant boolean comparisons
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a noob makes useless redundant boolean comparisons but not all redundant boolean comparisons are useless.
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Lmao that Operations.... its valid move though. Give the user workaround first before getting devs to fix the problem.
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That's not really a joke though, that's the right way to do it. Step number 1 is alleviate customer pain. Step two is root cause and resolve the problem.
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I see the error, when it detects the lightbulb is still not working a half second after determining it didn’t work before, it orders another bulb and schedules another mechanic, it does this repeatedly until the first mechanic fixes the bulb, then it stops ordering new mechanics and bulbs, despite more being scheduled to show up.
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This is bringing back horrific memories of the vendor saying that we're calling their API 10 times per second and I look at the code and say: "Impossible! It's coded to only call you guys once per day!" and then I step through the code and I'm like: "Oh."
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And when I get these I usually wonder how the hell am I supposed to fix it
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restart api server, maybe
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After years of experiencing this it goes like this for me:
**First panel:**
I'm a dumbass
**Second panel:**
See? It's not working again.
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**Third panel:**
Stack overflow is amazing! :D
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I actually looked up this comic to find the exact wording of this sudo warning lol
Of course that didn't stop me from messing up the file path to root's mailbox
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You could always change root's mailbox path ;)
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I would usually add these dumb error messages (smth like Oopsie, what happened here?) instead of logging actual errors. And then later would have no idea what it was supposed to throw for which error.
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I do that, but every answer is different. Easy CTRL+F to find the issue.
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"Contact administrator" is just lingo for "check logs and pray" to be honest.
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To be fair that is what administrators do anyway so
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That's exactly how I felt after fixing a issue that was dangling on github for 4 years and none had found a solution, then I found one just so damn good, so damn elegant and simple.
It worked, too well, so everything else started failing.
Issue closed and marked as solved anyway. :D
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*Insert disaster girl here*
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Not Java developer, but System.out.println("Hello"); looks much cleaner than std::cout << "Hello" << std::endl;
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Cout is like the worst, and system.whatever is 2nd
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My experience has been more like
Me: "Hey look at those nice circular wheels over there, we should use those!"
Mgmt: "No, we already have these nice square ones that took 6 months to approve"
Me: "can we at least start the process of getting circular wheels?"
Mgmt: "No, try the square ones for a while, we think you like them"
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As someone who has worked as developer for the government for 5 years, this is exactly true.
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Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!
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Oh God, I would suspect malware if I saw this.
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As someone who has worked as developer for the government for 5 years, this is exactly true.
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My department (something something Finance) functions under the belief that everyone needs to be able to understand/use my team's data, so MS Access it is.
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Having worked in enterprise before it's more like a handfull of people trying to trick the enemy by moving around card board cut outs. This was no small company either and I'm pretty sure that's how it is a lot of places.
Right now I'm working in a government agency (not in the US) and have great freedom to pick and choose new technology and ways of doing things. It's not about government vs private. It's about leadership, legacy, dependencies, size, etc.
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I can't really place it but the handful of people tricking the enemy with carboard cutouts metaphor really hits home emotionally.
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My department (something something Finance) functions under the belief that everyone needs to be able to understand/use my team's data, so MS Access it is.
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Do you ever get worried about the shrinking market for professional MS Access Developers?
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I'm a Cobol developer. I'm **always** the ogre, no matter compared to what.
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I thought that made you a dinosaur. How's Fred Flintstone, by the way?
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ML is first about trying to get B no matter how, then people try to straighten then line between.
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It's more like randomly throwing a line out and hope it lands on B, and over time more lines end up landing on B.
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I can't speak for everyone, just for myself. That said: I don't give 1 single fuck about how I look in meetings and such when I'm employed indeed.
Currently I'm deep into my covid look (beard looking somewhat like a hobo wookie and the hair follows in line) and not a soul at my work bats an eye when the cam is turned on. New employees look at me weirdly when they first see me, but that's none of my business.
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I definitely have a habit of going to meetings in pajamas.
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This seems completely backwards to me. The front-end developer is the princess (concerned about physical appearance, work is seen and admired by PM and customers, uses a trendier, simpler, and younger language). The C++ developer is the ogre (concerned with the bowels of the code, work is invisible to outsiders, uses an old and difficult language, emotionally scarred from years of chasing down seg-faults and memory leaks).
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Found the front end dev
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Holy shit, it is actually version 15!
I didn't even know anything higher than 8 existed (I don't use Java very much if you can't tell)
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I believe Oracle only offers JRE up to 8, so for anything higher you have to go searching for alternative versions or do some kind of ritual and download Oracle's JDK.
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When I first used vim I literally closed the terminal cause I didn’t know how to close vim
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We've all been there
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Yeah. Basically they changed how they make releases. Before 8 each release was a huge overhaul and they are worked on it for years. post java8 releases are much much smaller and faster. If I remember correctly they said they have to speed up the release cicles to keep up with other techs.
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Actually, 9 was the latest release with the long development cycle.
But it was also the start of the new release cycle, with Java 10 following 1/2 year later.
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```set.values().stream().collect(Collectors.toList())```
Don't baninate me pls.
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`new ArrayList(set)` would like a word with you.
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Me: creates a new variable
Eclipse: hey idiot you’re not even using that
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Me: Well fine. \**uses a variable first*\*
Eclipse: Woah woah woah wtf is this shit Karen?
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**But Java bad, Python good! Python no punctuation!**
But seriously? I hate Python so fucking much. The punctuation ADDS clarity, not complicates things. At least imo
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I had to use python for school stuff. I hated it initially for the same reason, but by the third or fourth assignment I was used to it. Still wouldn’t use it before other things.
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I've always wondered how Stackoverflow came to be... without Stackoverflow.
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Infinite recursion... Without StackOverflow to prevent it, anything was possible, including StackOverflow.
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Lol I was studying CSS the user day so I could practice making websites and there was like 3 lessons on setting colours and shades and all I could think was WHO CARES? I just honestly have zero art talent at all. Fonts were just as bad. I literally could not give less of a crap.
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my artistic ability is so bad my art teacher gave me a detention for my art not being good enough, but colour is a science. You just need to understand the principles and you can make good palates. As for fonts, I literally only use roboto lol it looks so clean
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What if AI actually wanted us to get out of the planet before it explodes or the sun's nova destroys it?
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Yes, we are starting to ask the real questions
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What if the Sun is actually controlled by another AI that only wants to experiment with us?
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What if humans are just an underdeveloped AI?
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As a fullstack, I understand its garish but have no flipping clue how to fix it other than switching everything to an equally garish shade of orange.
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Use the teal and orange together, and boom, you've added contrast with complimentary colors!
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Use the teal and orange together, and boom, you've added contrast with complimentary colors!
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User testing results: 22% of users clawed their eyes out. Hm. That's lower than I expected. Ship it!
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Astronauts use Linux because imagine getting screwed by a Windows update in the middle of takeoff.
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Take of in T minus 10, 9, 8, *preparing updates*, 7, 6, 5, *please do not turn off you computer*, 4, 3, 2 *applying update failed, rolling back*, 1, LIFT OFF!
*Error, jet engine driver faild to initialize properly, do you wish to open up the problem solving dialogue? Yes/No.*
Yes
*Searching for solutions*
*No problems found, search online? Yes/No*
Yes
*Error, you're not connected to the internet. Please check your network settings.*
A while later a bricked rocket and millions of dollars wasted due to a failed and forced update.
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User testing results: 22% of users clawed their eyes out. Hm. That's lower than I expected. Ship it!
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Those users probably won't launch further complaints so it's fine as it's a one time issue.
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SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN
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SHUT
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UP
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ABOUT
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THE SUN
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Here comes the sun /dun dun dun dun dun/
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It’s just like Tinder; the attractive ladies on LinkedIn pretending to be interested in me are also Bots run by fucking morons.
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One time I got a message from an Amazon Recruiter for a programming position.
Sounds cool af, right?
I’m a CNC Programmer. I’ve never touched computer programming until a few months ago when I decided to work on a Computer Sci degree and took intro to C++.
It was kind of funny to point out that out I’m a CNC programmer but thank him for the message.
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When I saw the title of this movie on HBO, I legit read it as IP manager.
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historical thriller covering when the last of the /8 blocks were given out
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Building a raft with...
**SPECS:** raft can fit two people, has a sail, is made of wood. Nobody thought about specifying that it should float.
**FUNDING:** the investors decided a raft wasn’t a viable investment. You instead start implementing machine learning on a new Facebook but for dogs, still stuck on your island.
**QA:** your raft is ready, it floats, it sails. QA is still blocking you, as they report that if you spin clockwise three times while standing on the raft before it’s hit by a meteorite it might sink
**MARKET RESEARCH:** There is more demand for a Facebook for dogs, and apparently another island is already working on it.. They even use machine learning. The raft project is pushed back to next year.
**DEADLINE:** The raft is released at the last moment, and actually looks like a raft. It has only a *small* issue that *might* cause it to sink, but only if it’s on water. The user probably will not notice, it's fine.
**DEMAND:** Your raft is functional and open-source and saves hundreds of people who were stuck on their islands. You feel pride for exactly one day, before waking to a mailbox full of insults, death threats, complaints about the raft not being usable as a Facebook for dogs, and requests that you implement the ability to float on lava ***RIGHT NOW***.
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This needs to be its own post, and the first one is an easy patch.
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This is the real joke right here.
Why does anyone think Government wants to be efficient?
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Error on line 263 at government.js at Efficiency()
Efficiency is not a function
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The government is legacy code and a waterfall software lifecycle.
All new commits must be spaghet
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Is that a method? PR declined!
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I think the court is technically supposed to do that tbh since they're the ones who interpret the law
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The courts are more of a customer service department that decides wether what the users are doing is actually a bug or working as intended.
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"Bills aren't made up by politicians ad hoc just before they vote on them." *sobbing in polish*
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*~~sobbing in polish~~* *sobbing in eastern european. FTFY*
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Left out the 5 meetings and 3 documents reflecting the 10 line code change
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Don't forget playing access whack-a-mole with devops where you gain access to some services to finish the task and magically lose access other services you needed to finish the task.
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Once you are salaried, you realise that more code = more to go wrong = more potential bugs = more code to test = longer code reviews.
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that actually made a lot of sense... I think a lot more of the maintainability of the code I produce rather than the bulk work that I do because later on they'll call me to face the demons I've crafted
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Not to mention now you are responsible for the code you wrote. In school you get marked down for bugs. At work it’s something your expected to fix, and a lot of the time with no consideration for other deadlines.
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My last job, this was a big part of why I ended up leaving. I worked on 4 projects last year, so somehow I became the product owner of those. We had 6 more projects upcoming this year, plus maintenance on the old 4 projects and no raises or hiring because of the pandemic, somehow.
I'm a little sad I'm unemployed now, but so glad I got out of that shitshow.
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From the SysAdmin world: "I downloaded this app called Ubuntu because people on the internet said its better than windows. Can you fix this black screen with a bunch of words on it? I miss my background picture of my kids and all those cute apps I arranged over them"
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No problem.
It’s $400 to reinstall an operating system and $600
for file recovery but note that file recovery is not guaranteed.
Then you let one of the bajillion recovery softwares run overnight and reinstall windows from a USB in 30mins.
Easy money
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that actually made a lot of sense... I think a lot more of the maintainability of the code I produce rather than the bulk work that I do because later on they'll call me to face the demons I've crafted
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I’m having this horrible moment of self-reflection based on that right now... my company has had this horribly buggy date/time related library implementation (and refuse to use an external library for reasons) and it has caused tons of bugs in my own code just because I depend on it, so I just finally sat down and rewrote it. It’s... better? There are no longer the same bugs as before, but now there are different bugs. I am the problem lol
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In school my code usually only ever needed to handle the happy path. Rarely were we required to handle bad user input or f’ed up data. Also it was almost always starting from scratch vs adding or changing something without breaking 1000 other functions.
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My professors made it a point to try every possible thing to break our code. Every textbox, drop-down, and button had to have full user validation.
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I’m having this horrible moment of self-reflection based on that right now... my company has had this horribly buggy date/time related library implementation (and refuse to use an external library for reasons) and it has caused tons of bugs in my own code just because I depend on it, so I just finally sat down and rewrote it. It’s... better? There are no longer the same bugs as before, but now there are different bugs. I am the problem lol
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Add unit tests, dummy.
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The only apps I use are the ones I install on my phone. I do not have anything I would refer to as an app on my computer, and there is certainly nothing you can access though the web that I would refer to as an app.
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I refer to electron apps as electron apps because I refuse to recognize them as more than web apps that got lost and decided to live as desktop apps
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Those 10 lines were after parsing the cryptic algorithms the lead architect wrote 15 years ago
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I definitely feel like a genius when, after hours of poking and prodding, I discover the 1 line of code I need to change that's 18 levels of recursion and abstraction deep
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No problem.
It’s $400 to reinstall an operating system and $600
for file recovery but note that file recovery is not guaranteed.
Then you let one of the bajillion recovery softwares run overnight and reinstall windows from a USB in 30mins.
Easy money
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You reinstall Ubuntu. They said they wanted to tryout Ubuntu. I'm only half-joking
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Don't forget playing access whack-a-mole with devops where you gain access to some services to finish the task and magically lose access other services you needed to finish the task.
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And where do you leave the 10 days spend debugging why the change you made to module A make module F go up in flame without any error message?
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Improvements are even worse.
Change log: "Moved delete button so that it's actually visible instead of hidden behind other elements except for a tiny clickable sliver of the border."
User: "This sucks. Put it back to the old way. The delete button takes up too much of the screen"
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This even happens when your users aren’t consumers but rather other programmers using your library: “No, stop, you can’t fix that! All my code depends on feature X being broken!” Literally just experienced this haha
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I definitely feel like a genius when, after hours of poking and prodding, I discover the 1 line of code I need to change that's 18 levels of recursion and abstraction deep
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I've spent entire days tracing some multi threaded code that under some new condition throws an error when the buffer reaches a certain size that was limited by networking/video capabilities at the time and the fix was to just change
buffer=512; to buffer=4096;
and we all agreed that if this is a problem in the future we'll handle it then
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And where do you leave the 10 days spend debugging why the change you made to module A make module F go up in flame without any error message?
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Only to discover that the problem in module F was a weeks-old commit pushed by your boss without tests that somehow managed to work until now.
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Only to discover that the problem in module F was a weeks-old commit pushed by your boss without tests that somehow managed to work until now.
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And in the end it will turn out that the problem was the sysadmin changing the language of the interface in one router which then resetted to default options and broke half of the network but only for Windows 8 machines
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It’s all fine and dandy until your code only works with the print statements, and you don’t know why.
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usually when code stops working if you remove the printf statements you've got a race condition and the printfs modify the timing. Once I discovered an error with memory wait states in a system because of this where the read failure would happen accessing the printf format string instead of the instruction I was debugging. infuriating.
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My school really focused on getting us ready to make real world business software. When I got my first job I had already been doing the same kind of projects for 2 years so it was an easy transition.
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Weird I only just started somewhere where a guy built a GUI in Tkinter as a side project. Nothing official I've ever worked on has ever had anything other than a web frontend and a REST or SOAP interface.
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"How long will this take?"
"yikes, uhhhh probably like 3 months?"
"To change the color?"
"its...its a difficult color"
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“The developer who quit last month baked the color into the rest of the system, changing just that one color without messing up anything else will require a significant overhaul of our current code base.”
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usually when code stops working if you remove the printf statements you've got a race condition and the printfs modify the timing. Once I discovered an error with memory wait states in a system because of this where the read failure would happen accessing the printf format string instead of the instruction I was debugging. infuriating.
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I had something similar happen where I was debugging, as soon As I wrote the print statements it worked for no reason, and continued to work after I removed them, I still don't understand, and yes it was compiled.
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First programming job I had, they didn’t use any version control. Dragging files directly to production folders is the true YOLO move.
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you worked for riot games?
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as a brit, i can confirm, i always read it as init with a roadman accent in my mind, seriously.
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As a Brit, I didn’t do this. After seeing this post however, I now always will.
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Typical programmer: `Boolean isEnabled = true`,
canadian programmer: `Boolean enabledEh = true`
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Typical programmer: .toString()
Australian programmer: .stringitty()
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The world does not rotate in the direction you think :) Lunchtime meetings in the UK are early morning in the USA.
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I stand corrected, but it felt like that was what the joke implied anyway. I see now that it's supposed to mean that is what the British devs say to the US devs, but it could've been worded better.
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The value programmers create actually sticks around even if the programmer suddenly feels less confident in it for bullshit rich people reasons
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Even when it really shouldn't
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In the company I work for, everyone has a signature looking like the CEO one in this example. One of the first tasks for new employees is to adapt the template to your own information. I completely forgot about it and the second day I sent out some emails and like 90% of the replies ended with pointing out I forgot to set up the signature.
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We have something similar where I work, and last year my entire team had to change our signatures like 5 times because they kept changing the name of our team. So now our signatures are all over the place.
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it's missing the note to not print this e-mail and also a huge block of text as a disclaimer that you may not read this mail if you are not the intended recipient.
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every time someone does that in their emails I immediately know they're a schmuck
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