@Voxera I got bored because I am always bored, but I looked up the phrase and apparently it predates her birth by one year. Someone in 1905 said it, maybe it's even older but I can't say I care to look into it more. Inconsequential trivia, but I know it and now you do too.

@Voxera I heard a phrase recently that I'm starting to really like. 'Nothing fails like success.'
Your statement there really encapsulates the essence of that phrase, I think.

I didn't think anyone else used the word Muppet as an insult, but I'm glad there are others.

@iiii months late on this reply but this email issue is bugging me again and I figure I'll just liven up an old rant rather than another new rant about email. Yes, we have SharePoint and bitbucket and Teams and network drives, but no agreement on how to centralize it all and of course people only use what they know, so everyone usually says "send me the file in an email" otherwise you'll spend all day tracking down the right repository.

Oh, I hate work at every moment, not just this one. Mostly I hate that I love my stupid job and I even love working with the stupid PM who thinks the business will fail UAT because I didn't know what an acronym for a tool we use stood for even though I could explain the function the tool performs.

Also, JS is rather offensive to me just in general, so I appreciate that apology but it was unnecessary.

Don't take the reactions personally. It's about the style of your message, not particularly the actual content. Ask questions, make comments, get involved in the community discussions, but don't come into this place believing you are owed anything, including answers, but anyone else.

The devs are reacting to the situation created, not the person who created it. You don't have to leave, no one will even care. We put up with Jase and his many personalities, so I bet we'll be more than welcoming of your own as well. Once you stop wasting time by asking to ask questions.

Just keep in mind your computer needs speakers or you won't hear any sound. Maybe that's the issue you're already trying to solve.

"you said the worm was untraceable?!"
"Yeah, to civilians. These are hackers!!"

Because of that quote, I call anyone who doesn't use a computer a 'civilian'. It seems to work out.

@BREMUTOAREK start with having fun. Make something for fun, even if it's a copy of something else. At least you'll start to understand it a little more. Then maybe you can expand on it, still having fun and not worry about progress. You can start to internalize a lot of knowledge easier if you don't have the pressure of expectations, of making measurable progress. As long as you're still able to find joy in working the material, you'll always absorbing more knowledge about it. That's my theory anyway.

Everyone has their own way they learned, whether through university or code camps or on their own. Don't get down on yourself though. This honestly doesn't take talent so much as just patience and perseverance. I have met some complete fucking morons who are working in senior dev roles, so really if you find your technical knowledge lacking, work on your soft skills. But never give up trying to learn. Sometimes you'll slowly understand it, other times it'll suddenly all click at once.

Just remember, we ourselves are the worst judge of how effectively we are learning something because we are always looking for measurable results. But that's not how learning always works.

Seriously, what has motivated you to share your "expertise" with us? I put it in quotes because, my goodness is it misguided to be polite. Where do you even see yourself in any of this? Are you even a developer? While I follow everything you've posted (though agree with none of it) I don't understand what the hell you're even saying.

Preach it brother! I get taking responsibility for accomplishing my own work, but when everyone is overworked and choosing what/who to ignore, the people like us with no actual authority to reprimand someone for not helping me out are the first people to get ignored. Give me authority with the responsibility you're so quick to dish out and maybe, just maybe, I can get more done.

And I am so sick of management saying "well you need to learn to work around that" because guess what, you fucks won't give me credentials to log into the servers or whatever I need to do to get it done. But hey, I've gotten really good at sending emails every single day. I can automate that even, but I'm sure they've already set up rules in outlook to automatically trash my mail so why bother?

Do you spend any time actually coding or do you just talk about how much better at it you are than, apparently, anyone else is? Link your github, let's see what makes you so gifted. Please. Thank you.

I absolutely hate when people say "it isn't that difficult". First of all, either yes it is or you don't know where to start or you wouldn't be talking to someone else to get it done. Second, it's not about difficulty, it's about having the available time to perform the work. If I'm already working on other stuff of equal importance, I need to queue up your project. There will be a wait. Maybe it's only a day but maybe it's a week or longer.
I could go on, but I'm trying this new thing where I stay calm in the face of irritation.

@iamrohitsawai I find the best way (for me at least) is to lay out the goal you want to accomplish, then write down the actionable steps you have to take to accomplish that goal. It helps you visualize, then from there you can work to achieve the right balance between work obligations and self-learning tasks you want to accomplish.

So I have a real job and my title is 'software distribution engineer' but I don't know what that means. I hate using my job title when people ask me what I do, because no one else I talk to knows what it means either....

That would be a funny story if it wasn't so horrifyingly dystopian.

@Pogromist that person is much more eloquent in speaking their defense of their view than whatever the hell this entire thread was. This thread was by far more entertaining however.

@I-Hate-My-Job you fucking twat, I was pointing out that you got the phrase wrong to help you grow as a person. I even said that it may have just been a typo. But maybe you're foreign and didn't know the real phrase. It would be embarrassing for you to use the wrong phrase, especially the one you used, in a professional setting. But sure, call me a troll instead and assume I had only malicious intent from the outset. If that's your default approach to life, I can see all too clearly why you have rage issues and I hope sincerely you find your inner peace one day.

@iiii This dude uses so many words to say absolutely nothing at all, don't he though? And I thought I was good at that. He could teach a master class.

@I-Hate-My-Job also THIS is where you get exposure to that "basic stuff" you haven't had the pleasure of experiencing yet. You post a rant about your issue, someone comments with knowledge you didn't know about, you read it with an open mind and allow your skills as both a dev and person grow.

Or you dismiss everyone with a dissenting opinion as trolls who just want to fight and then you allow that deeper insecurity you're struggling with to seize hold of your inner self just a little bit tighter, choking out growth opportunities you might otherwise be open to. But hey, to each their own.

@I-Hate-My-Job I'm hearing a lot of excuses but no attempt at personal accountability. I explained a possible cause of the hostility you're facing. And again, the vast majority of people said "this problem you're facing is easy, unless legacy". They were already giving you the benefit of the doubt. So again, what is the problem? Everyone is here to yell into the void, yell at the other people yelling into the void and possibly to make themselves feel better about their own insecurities. Now you're complaining that they're not doing it politely despite your admission you're here for those same exact reasons. You're now gatekeeping the attitudes of the responses you receive because you seem to feel they are offensive to your sensibilities. I hope you can begin to understand how ridiculous that is now.

@I-Hate-My-Job why would you post anything at all if you don't want people to respond? Now you're gatekeeping the responses! How is that better than the people gatekeeping your rants? I'll respond to anything I want in any manner I feel like if I think it's justified. That's my prerogative. Also I'm not sure if it's a typo or not, but it's actually a "tid-bit", though I guess your usage has a degree of applicable context...

@I-Hate-My-Job Now at this point, I have to believe you're intentionally misunderstanding the intent of the comments because you want everything to fit your biased narrative.

If you come into an issue you're facing with a hostile attitude about how terrible a tool is, don't be surprised when that hostility is returned to you when people defend the tool and telling you that you lack fundamental knowledge of that tool.

If it is your first rant you're speaking of, everyone who "critisized" you in saying it's easy to use added the caveat of "unless you're working with legacy" which you later confirmed you are. So what's the problem? If I come in here bitching about how terrible vim is because I can't exit it, I shouldn't be offended when the answer is "look on Google you fucking nerd". But if I later state I can't exit vim because my computer has no keyboard, then everyone sympathizes with my issue, I'm now vindicated. As happened in your case. Except you're still complaining. Why?

@Pogromist I just read his first rant and if that's what he's talking about, I don't see his complaint at all. Everyone was like "bullshit. CSS is easy unless you're doing legacy shit, then good luck coz it suuuuucks" and he's like "I am doing legacy stuff" so given that, it seems like everyone is still on his side, right?

@black-kite maybe he comes from a management background or was told to find a way to make his mark. What better way to be remembered than to just fuck up some fully tested and working shit, right?

I'm still waiting on some examples of unfairly criticized rants personally, before I pass any judgments here.

Now this is a great rant. Tagged wrong, but still a great rant.

@superarch was that a typo? Did you accidentally add a 1 in front of the 9?