One of the advantages of working for yourself is not having to waste time studying problems for coding interviews that never actually come up in 95% of real life apps. Big-O can go fuck itself, merge sort can suck by balls. If I need you I'll stack overflow it like everything else

I have the opposite problem. I only use social media so I can talk about my app and promote it. I find making posts exhausting and anxiety inducing. I find scrolling through feeds exhausting and depressing. Apart from the odd giggle from something funny I don't know why anyone would voluntarily waste any of their time on social media.

I stopped working for dev companies when my chronic pain got too bad to travel / have meetings / deal with bullshit. Now I just work on my own app, a symptom diary for people with chronic pain. I make almost no money, but I work my own hours and every morning I wake up and I *want* to work on it. I'm so much happier (and poorer) than I was.

Also I swapped iOS swift / Android Kotlin shitfest for flutter. Flutter makes me happy.

I think you mean "great, now there's a keyboard surrounding my piece of chocolate"

The horror...

The horror...

@crisz Fair enough. I doff my cap to you sir!

I just like poking fun at JavaScript because I don't have to use it :p Here's another one:

> Math.max()>Math.min()
false

> Math.max()<Math.min()
true

Your friends give you a few bucks or buy you beers? Man, I need to find some new friends...

@endor Definately an under-rated TV series! Great first season then arguably goes a bit downhill after that

> 'this' instanceof String
false

> typeof 'this'
'string'

> typeof String('this')
'string'

> String('this') === 'this'
true

Whoever made JavaScript should be beaten, savagely

You're a superstar. Hope your bosses realise you're basically doing 3 jobs in 1 (dev, sysadmin, first line support) and give you a fucking pay rise!

PS if it's an Exim email server, you've probably been bitten by the nasty Exim vulnerability going on at the moment.
PPS the two events (email server going nuts and Turkish hackers attacking your other server) may be related

@jespersh An aeron? I'm considering buying. I found a second hand one for half price.

@heyheni Thanks, this looks interesting - I have something like that at home which rocks backwards and forwards slightly (it has a curved base), but without the back rest. I find I can only sit on it for about 30 minutes before my body feels tired, probably just lack of core strength. I might look for one with a back rest for the office

The chair I'm sitting on is shit. Are these (Aerons) really £1000 worth of comfortable?

The confidence to politely say No (when there's a good reason of course)

I feel sorry for people who's entire photo library, I mean every single god damn photo they took in their entire self-absorbed lives, is a selfie. For fuck's sakes.

Can you ask them if you can visit and just sit alongside the dev ops team for a few days? To get the feel for the job and the people. I personally think I wouldn't like dev ops at all, it all just seems like high stress, high complexity machine wrangling, but everyone's different. You might love it

@terminal434 Love it!

Maybe I'm over sensitive about this kind of stuff because I have ankylosing spondylitis, but I would be worried that as I got older, if I was working on a laptop on a couch for most of my life I would develop all the postural qualities and core strength of an old manky sock

Start recording the amount of time you and everyone else spend dealing with proxy issues. After a month add up the time, and multiply it by a reasonable salary. Then send that to your manager and ask them if they want to increase the companies profits by that much, every month. Then tell them how (@netikras seems to have a really nice solution)

At least it's not SharePoint. There's always a silver lining

Thanks. My first rant. I think it's been fermenting for years beneath my consciousness - so happy I found this website, it may well have prevented an unpleasant workplace "incident"