You would be amazed!

DDG since 2016 when I had to switch because I was in China. Never went back and with everything I hear about Google, I don’t plan to. Only Google thing I still have and enjoy is Maps.

Not one company I’ve worked at has ever paid a license for anything if it was at all possible to do it freely.

EPPlus trying to get money for their hard work? Guess we are stuck on the free version forever then…

It’s fucking embarrassing.

That’s what I did and I loved it. jQuery, some jQuery API, some dataTables, my backend in C# and off I go! Not perfect, but really enjoyable. Also SCSS is wonderful and I’m never going back.

It’s “four screens side by side” display. Why not, I guess.

Thanks for correcting. Pleco confirmed the one I wrote, but this is the one I learnt and actually wanted to write!

China, at least. Lots of distinction between mother side and father side. Grandma can be 老老 laolao (mother’s mother) or 奶奶 nainai (father’s mother), for example.

That has to be because in Chinese there is a single word for it, like for so many other relative nouns.

… I think I found it : 老表 (laobiao) Defined as “male cousin (on the maternal side or on the paternal aunt’s side)”

I’m embarrassed to say I only finally got it now. After reading the joke last night. -_-;

Unicode is hard?

Backdoors all the way down!

A few months back I crashed a db in prod. I detached it and when I tried to reattach it simply refused, saying it was corrupted or some shit.
Lucky me we have a backup solution.
Unfortunately it was being upgraded, with difficulties.
That was a long day.

I worked for a big Euro bank for a bit and that was exactly it. JS timeouts were forbidden, so no animation to tell you something was finished, you had to keep clicking a Refresh button to know. In 2022.
And the colleagues who had been there a few years were actually defending this shit. Stockholm Syndrome is what it is. There wasn’t a day I didn’t complain about their piece of garbage of an intranet.
I’m so glad it’s behind me.

It is the way!

I agree! There really should be no excuses at this point… you’d think. Even in 2008 I already felt we were behind the loop, but apparently I was vastly underestimating how bigger companies just dgaf.

If only you knew how many huge companies have no fucking clue…

Somebody has not worked with dates for very long, to be so sure of themselves…

FUCK whoever thought translating Excel formulas was a good idea. It is the most infuriating shit. Everything I learnt in English is now useless, without googling every fucking function every single time. Fucking idiots.

It’s the kind of testing my colleague would do. “well, nobody would be idiotic enough to enter something weird when they are asked for a number”. And so he’d only write tests for numbers. That kind of stuff.
The unit tests I’m looking at in this latest jobs are some primo “dev testing” bullshit. Their sole purpose clearly was to be able to say “we unit test our code in our pipeline and it all passed” and that’s about it. Ugh.

My favourite one was when I asked the user “can this happen?” (Some value being negative) and they reply “no never”.
Then, of course, I get an occurrence the day of the live demo with the user and her boss.
I ask again, “uh, so is this normal? Has it ever occured before? Because I asked you if it could happen and you said never.”
Now the boss replies “oh, we meant it’s extremely uncommon. Almost never happens”.

Turns out it happens once every few months, amongst hundreds and hundreds of transactions.

So I gently explained that the computer doesn’t care how often it happens. If it can happen, I need to code it in otherwise things go wrong!
Thankfully I had planned the eventuality, so I had a nice error message, but still. A lesson was learnt that day.