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While we're throwing cat pics at devrant, I laid the exercise mat down, he walked over, plopped down, and looked at me as if to say "What are you looking at? This is mine now"
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@Demolishun > "Methematics"
Yikes, and scary accurate.
My wife's cousin lost all her teeth and that side of the family were trying to say the tooth loss was genetic.
While partially true, that side did lose their teeth(all but one out of 5 aunts and uncles).
Me: "She's on meth"
Wife: "No...everyone but my dad wears dentures. It's genetic."
Me: "They lost their teeth in their 70's. Mary is 29, 80lbs, no teeth, looks like a walking skeleton. She's on meth."
I'm no doctor or geneticist, I could be wrong. -
Not sure how to play that. Either you've got a super good boss concerned about your well-being (and might be seeing something that some office suit isn't seeing) or a jerk that sees you as "broken goods" and looking for any excuse to get rid of you.
The fact that there appears to be some kind of dance going on, you won't get an honest answer if you ask directly.
Man...good luck and keep the devrant posted. -
@PaperTrail > "..almost got me fired"
I thought for sure I ranted about that event, but I can't find it. Devrant's search and looking for my previous rants isn't the best. -
My work mug, almost got me fired.
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@lorentz < "WASM isn't an emulator, it's a platform"
We're going full steam into Blazor (WASM) for internal (web) migrations (Angular, React, and SharePoint). Right now, couldn't be happier.
TL;DR, my immediate mgr is a C# threading guru and pulled off some impressive async/await magic I'd put up against nearly any React/Angular/etc equivalent implementations. -
@Demolishun > "I lost interest in wasm when I saw there was no threading"
Have you checked out the WASM+threading in .net 8?
Curious, what kind of web app are you writing that needs multi-threading capability? -
So when are getting the Nintendo Switch?
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@Demolishun > "Why everyone act like they are still high school"
I don't know if this is high school, I eat alone because I don't like people staring at/judging me when I eat at work.
Dev: "Ewe..tuna? how can you eat it out right out of the can?"
Me: "It's less than a dollar, ramen is around 30 cents, these $1.50 chips last me a couple of weeks, and I've been working on this big bottle of hot sauce for over a month."
Dev: "Hot sauce on tuna? You make the big bucks, why don't you go out to lunch like everyone else?"
Me: "Its not about how much you spend, it's about how much you save. I'd prefer to eat cheap for lunch and a good meal with my family when I get home."
When another dev commented "Got lunch plans? Tuna again? <ha ha ha>" I knew they were talking about me, screw you. Now I prep everything and eat in peace in one of our conf/meeting rooms/outside (its been a few years now). -
Ahh, named pipes. The poor man's client/server protocol.
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@Demolishun > "They said he was a nut"
"They" also say 'if you have nothing to hide..'
I really want to meet this 'They' person. -
@Root > "Summary"
Both Apple and Google have put 'backdoors' into the root operating system and hardware that allow them to send+receive commands even when the devices are turned off thru low energy communication protocols (ex Bluetooth). No longer requiring a central hosting system using the internet, they'll could send a command across the mesh network to find your device to, for example, turn on the camera, wipe the device, etc. -
This is devrant. Rants should be about dev stuff or your kitten pictures.
That is all. -
@kanyewest > "Apex Legends - I seldom play"
Now-a-days, Apex is about all I play.
<fire up apex>
Me: "Here we go, ahh..Control...let's GOOO!"
<interruption>
Daughter: "Can you help me with math? I can't figure out the probability of the dart hitting a bullseye."
<20 min. later>
Me: "OK, logged back in...Gun Run? No thank you..Trios here I come"
<1 minute into game play ...interruption>
Wife: "Stop playing that stupid game, you're a grown man. Have you cleaned the windows yet? My car needs the oil changed. When is the last time you washed your car? Shouldn't you be exercising instead of siting on your ass?" -
@Demolishun > "Doom was a lot of fun at the time"
Many, *many*, hours of playing Doom/Descent/Quake 'LAN Parties'. These kids will never know joy of hiding their game directories and bribing the network admin with pizza/donuts/beer to ignore the spike in netbios traffic. -
Doom (1993)
Runner Up: Descent (1995)
Honorable Mention: Quake (1996) -
@kanyewest > "knee problems happen only if you're a fat American ..."
Hey! I take offense to <as I look down at my round belly>...never mind. -
@jassole > "i do 7.5 kms"
Wow. Well done. -
So cute and sweet at that age. When they grow up, they turn into little jerks that climb up a tree and ignore your attempts to 'save' them.
The little stinker doesn't realize foxes and coyotes lurk around that area of our property. Next door neighbor has lost 3 cats last year to 'something'.
He's safe, had to grab a bag of cat food and shake it, which quickly figured out a way down. -
@Demolishun > "I now think he is a cunt.'
Yes, King is a terrible human being. In one of the audio books, King essentially admitted he's on drugs when he writes his books. In another, he tries to portray himself as a 'family man', when you know King the furthest thing from that truth. His ego is beyond nauseating (King wrote himself into the story).
That said, King does have a keen intellect and a tremendous eye on the details. The fact that nearly all his books are connected in some way to The Dark Tower is likely lost on most.
Try listening to the audio books. The voice actor does a fantastic job in the story telling. -
@Demolishun > "unless someone likes Twilight. If they do, you explain that Fifty Shades of Grey started out as Twilight Fan Fiction."
I'm waiting for an honest/accurate adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' series. Eddie's 'Dead Baby' jokes may not translate to the mass audiences, but THAT IS WHY I WOULD PAY TO SEE IT!
Even today's woke crowd could appreciate Detta Walker telling the (white) shopkeeper she's going to rip out his tongue and wipe his ass with it. -
@vane > "jira is actually nice software"
My boss is pushing the system replacement to be developed in-house because "we can".
He's a level 10 intellect capable of building rube-goldberg machines Rube-Goldberg would say "Whoa...stop...that's too complicated"
Came back from a meeting with upper-mgmt and I'm pretty sure he sold them developing it in-house would save us money. -
@ars1 > "they don’t get to the top by being nice to the customer, after all."
Small correction, you get to the top by being nice/having the best product/etc. Staying at the top becomes a different game entirely. -
@fullstackcircus > "are you a damned Apple employee?"
Nooooo! Only a happy recipient of future retirement returns. 😁 -
That's how the company keeps making more $$ per hour than you+me.
My 401K thanks you for your business. -
I say go for it.
We had a DBA that sort of did this. He quit and the plan was to start at the big hiking trail in California (don't remember what it's called) and work his way back to his original home state in North Carolina. Hike until he ran out of money, work until he had enough to go again, wash-rinse-repeat. He said with his DBA skills, he had no problem finding work and only had to stay in one place for a few months, then back on the trail. He said he met some amazing people along the way and would do it again.
#adventuretime -
@vane > "As I see how opensource is beating those multibillion dollars products I have a good laugh"
Just found out we (upper mgmt) are seriously considering replacing/migrating a highly customized (embedded JS, CSS styles, XSL styles, etc) business critical SharePoint list (manages all the company's projects) to Jira. My boss has already written an app to port the SharePoint data to Jira.
May the Lord have mercy on our souls. -
@vane > "why don’t you switch to the opensource solutions"
Outside my pay scale. Like a lot of companies of any size, there is a lot of internal politics involved. Going to opensource may solve one problem, then introduce 10 new ones.
The book "The Unicorn Project" illustrates this perfectly. -
@vane > "This is 8 years old software"
It was 'cutting edge' at the time, the last on-prem version of SharePoint Microsoft was going to offer.
We are licensed for SharePoint Online and confident 90% of our content would "just work", but it's the remaining 10% that wouldn't work and the company is falling back to "Oh well. If it ain't broke..". -
@Deres "Why would you care about what others think of you having shitty car or super car or whatever?"
Amen.
In our parking lot, there is a new Tesla in front of me, a new Ford Super Duty on the right, a new Ram truck on the left. Next to the Ram is a new BMW and a lot of big/new trucks/cars spread throughout (new>=2020). Pretty sure majority are financed out the wazoo.
I drive a 2012 Malibu that has 140,000 miles (had a little over 10,000 miles when I bought it). Paid cash ~9 years ago and I hope to get another 100,000 miles before I think about a new car.
They have no idea how little I care about what they think.