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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. -
@vane > "maybe you don’t pay enough bucks"
We're using SharePoint 2016 on-prem.
It's happened before, some file/list 'thing' hasn't been updated/viewed in X years and no amount of searching will find it. Then when it's viewed/updated, all of a sudden it shows up.
I care zero when an accountant wants some random spreadsheet they haven't seen in 5 years (just to see if some column still has a 7).
My blood boils when someone says "I would have fixed the error, if PaperTrail would have documented the process. We searched the intranet and it's not there." and *I know* I wrote the document.
I search, nope not found. I then I poke around our folders and find the doc. I re-search with the same string...then it shows up.
TL;DR, I've contacted support and their response is/was the equivalent of "Have you rebooted the machine?" -
@Demolishun > "I think oil will not run out"
Exon and others will take that challenge. :)
Read recently that they will/could start commercially mining ocean floors for nodules rich in nickle, copper, cobalt, and other metals used in battery production. Large enough deposits (trillions of these nodules) along with expansion of nuclear power, we'd be sustainable for hundreds of years.
We'll never see that. Liberals/socialist will claim the mining disrupts salmon spawning in Alaska
and/or the Exon types will claim they can only process one nodule a year (at 1 billion $$ a nodule) then collude with the government to only allow one company (them) to mine. Then Exon screws everything up and disrupts salmon spawning in Alaska. -
@Lensflare > "will we run out of resources like we will with oil?"
I'm confident our elected officials have thoroughly thought this out.
Source: "The Great Reset" by Glenn Beck. -
@tosensei > "so far, i haven't found an exception"
We've got a few good ones. In particular they lead by setting the goal, defines the parameters, and *stay out of the way*.
Right now with some of the others, I feel like the swing swung too far the other direction. Ex. if they didn't have 'Manager' in their title, you'd think they were part of the office furniture. "No, that's not a chair, that's our mgr Ken." -
I had this pinned to my cube wall after a dept mgr had a pre-pre-meeting to go over the agenda for a discovery pre-meeting for a big project kick-off meeting (which mostly consisted of very top level "We want to do this .." items)
We had the pre-pre-meeting, a few days later that comic was published and it went 'viral' around the office.
Dev1: "Dude, you better take that down. John is pissed. He thinks you submitted that idea to the Dilbert site"
Me:"John can think anything he wants. Maybe he should use Dilbert as a guide of what stupid things not to do." -
Microsoft has *a lot* of very talented web developers. There is one in Arkansas, couple in Missouri, one in California...
Oh..that work together? That's a big task for a big corp bogged down by competing politics. -
@kiki > Our 'barn cat' rescue here is falling asleep, tipping over, waking up, <wash-rinse-repeat>, several times before he realized if he lays down flat, he can go to sleep.
My daughter: "He never would have made it as a barn cat"