Can someone tell me how a mid level developer with a PhD from EU country is unable to work independently, conduct investigation by himself without too much hand-holding?
Is he too allergic to use google search?

Or is it me that have too much expectation? He's been in our team for 3 months, he should be able to search docs/procedure/files by himself now. Is it me that are too workaholic nerdy and he's just a normal person?
🤔
Thankfully he's the nicest person in our team, but I am getting fed up having to answer his questions many times.

Random historical fact: the Duke of Marlborough sacked Cork in 1690.

Shows up when landing on the Chrome download page. Pathetic. Also 0 - ∞ = -∞

I never dream about tech (at least not specific) but recently I had a dream rotating around the fact that terminators (e.g. T-800) are safe to be stored on Windows 95 as they can only boot from NES cartridge.

Wait, I HAVE to use double quotes when referring to RiotJS tags within JS, otherwise the in-browser compiler just spits out errors? FU

Starting a new job today, let‘s see how this turns out

Yay crickets, my favorite tinnitus sound 😁

competitive salary
so competitive we refuse to compete by actually stating it

by this point I might just have some fun and not apply to jobs persay but just write funny blurbs to them about their ads

I think I'm finding I just don't wanna work with all these technologies

I’ve been crocheting … a lot.

Cat on the table.
It knows it’s not allowed to.
Swiftly runs away.

why do you have,...

guuyyyssss....?

What'd just happen....?

I remember this happening quite often on Windows machines: occasionally some random popup window appears for a second or two, does whatever it does and disappears; usually it's either a cmd or a ps window.

Just a few moments ago a weird window popped up on my screen, its title bar was saying something about VisualStudio, and after ~2 seconds it disappeared.

The reasons I find this concerning:
- I don't have anything VS-related installed on my current environment
- I've been running Linux for years now

What the f did just happen...

I guess I'll never be able to do tech talks in events...

Hearing my own voice through the speakers freaks me out. Every time. Tech talk, asking a question or wishing a happy marriage in my friend's wedding.

It's soo freaking weird...

the more time I spend in this industry, the more I come to realize that it's a very blurry line between PROGRAMMING and CONFIGURING.

How much programming do you do these days, really? Isn't it just configuring your frameworks and libraries and engines to do what they do in the way you want?

Does it still make you programmers...?

And then what are these .conf files for your application? A declarative configuration for your... imperative configuration...?

How is it going, motherkissers?
Where’s my OG Fam at?

I haven't been productive since the bs. (Refer to previous rant) And one deadline is approaching very fast.

My Christmas was ruined because I was anxious/annoyed/everything negative about the bs as well as being alone and stuck in a village. My new year has always been crap but this year it was extra crap.

Overall, I'm having none of the fun. My life is starting to feel like a deadend. I feel like I have to give up on my dreams to survive. And that no one is really on my side, despite whatever they say.

The ADHD rejection sensitivity is also heavily activated. Like I know that realistically I can fix this, but at this point I just want to break everything and let the ship sink.

I have lost time that I could be productive to this bs. And I wish nothing but misery for all those responsible for putting me in this situation. (I take responsibility for my mistakes, but not for how others behaved towards me)

Lost my auntie to a very long cancer battle.

There is a long list of people that I would've rather died than her.

Why don't workplaces have a category of leave for "literally dying inside"?

What in the planet do they expect me to do?

My shower tap has two modes:
- Quark-melting relativistic beam of sizzling hot plasma
- Time-freezing liquid death from the cold heart of Dante’s hell

@Wisecrack
Hey where is my favourite crazy mathematician nowadays?!? 😀
I miss your posts, so i demand my portions of Wisecrack, like a proper junkie! 😀
Hope You are ok, and everything is fine

It’s the small things

Christmas carols everywhere 🤢

Medium priority
High priority
Urgent priority
Immediate priority
Maximum priority
Absolute priority

Did I get the ordering right? This is hard

Spammers are so repetitive that I don't know if I should downvote them as spam or as repost.

Big boss: Last year we had much more revenue and profits than our expectations, and this success is thanks to all of you. Thank you! You made an excellent work! Impressive!
Some employee: Can we all get a raise?
Big boss: Wtf that question again? No way!

reality: I saw null in the debugger here, causing the bug

add a null check

IDE: you don't need to check for null, this can't be null

what do you do when you can't trust the tools you work with

Fun Fact: Did you know that git clone starts a child process for downloading the repo but the parent process terminates, therefore working in an asynchrone way so &&-ing the next instruction, which might rely on those files, won't help you?
Well now you know, and so do I.
Fornicating piece of excrement, what a fun afternoon.

In other news, I have been forbidden by my boss to implement any security or performance improvements into the company infrastructure as this holds no business value. Furthermore, passwords are not to be a random alphanumeric+special-chars string but something legible.

Cat of the day

Cat of the day