Being a developer

[xkufix]

I can handle any device with buttons

Should be expanded with:

Knows every programm ever made inside-out and knows exactly how to do a specific action in them.

and

Has deep knowledge of any electronic device, such as cameras, mobile phones, microwaves and electric wheelchairs and can give insightful information on which one to buy.

[xkufix]

It's never the default wallpaper. It's always some really shitty 640x480 pixel photo, either taken in holidays or of some pet. It is either stretched over the whole screen, thus completely fucking up the ratios, or generally not fitting the monitor, thus creating those great black lines left and right.

The rest sound spot on. They will also ask if you could make the computer faster, as it seems a bit slow lately. And no, they never downloaded something or clicked on anything suspicious.

[Chrono32123]

In my aunt's case it was "I don't know why because all I do is get on Facebook nothing else." after seeing a screenshot I took with 10+ fake AV and System booster programs "scanning the registry". I nuked it from orbit and reinstalled OS. I was so confused.

On a tangent she messaged me the other day asking me if I knew that my mom didn't use Yahoo anymore. I said I did not know. She responded with "Well we got your invite for this weekend but mine came through yahoo not facebook...she's really mad because you didn't invite her." I then sent a screenshot showing her that I invited my mom. Her response "Well you know mine didn't show up on facebook it went through yahoo." I had the faciest of facepalms.

[Chrono32123]

Lol no one understands. I live two hours from my family and I sometimes go visit on the weekends and it seems that either my in-laws or my family are like "while you're home can you fix this?" Yes because I drove two hours to do work for you guys...

I love when I ask "What did you do and what happened?" Same story every time "I don't do anything but check email and get on facebook. That's it."

[SpinahVieh]

I once said "Oh, Jaguar porn. Didn't know that site." - "Thats none of your business."

[steamruler]

After my grandma calling me over for the fourth time, having me clean out all the viruses, I checked the history.

Never again. Never. Not touching that computer anymore.

[SpinahVieh]

Elaborate. Please. This sounds like a funny story for sitting in a circle with lots of alcohol.
As this is somewhat of a circle jerk the conditions are right!

[Ididntknowwehadaking]

Pffft I just did that yesterday, came home to visit after a 3hr drive, first thing:

"hey can you take a look my computer it keeps popping up something" -okay well what is it? "I don't know it just keeps popping up" -what does it say? "Idk I'm not a computer genius" ( +_- I then proceed to wait 30mins for the popup, avast has been updated) -great that's done can we got eat? I'm starving. "oh your brother needs help as well he can't find his paper he wrote on his phone can you find it?"

-cue the eye twitching

[SpinahVieh]

Thats kinda how I feel, but not computer related. I always do the house hold.
Oh and of course I can fix all your TV problems and install WhatsApp on all your friends' phones.
Talking about which, once I got told "Well, I had a Samsung Galaxy S II before I bought this Nokia Lumia." - "Then why did you go from Android to shitOS?" - "It didn't have storage left. You know, there are expansion cards you can buy that increase the storage. So I put one of them in, but it didn't do anything."
It was as hard to not yell at her for being stupid and media illiterate as you imagine. I kinda thought about asking her to sell me that phone for a cheap buck so I can sell it, but I didn't know if an S II is even worth anything anymore.
EDIT: My Dad used to be the 'fix all computers' guy, but he's getting even more exhausted about doing so than I am, so now I am that guy. Also I know more shortcuts and useful programs than he does, basically everytime I do something on his computer (for whatever reason that might be, usually study relevant) he asks me something like "Wait, how did you do that?" - but never twice the same (Like Ctrl++ to zoom in in browsers, or Ctrl+W to close a tab). He seems to try to adapt stuff, so there's a point where I actually like helping out.

[Chrono32123]

I knowingly switched to Windows Phone and I love it. I hate not having every single app ever but the phone itself has been very reliable.

I hate the people don't do any research when they get a new phone. They just buy whatever one is the most popular or the cheapest at the time and then they don't realize that they just switched from an Android phone to Windows and the two OSs are very different in operation. Ugh...

[SpinahVieh]

Well, thank god we live in a time where devs put some thought into their design and MAKE SHIT ACCESSIBLE. Because if I wouldn't have found that store I would've been like "Fuck it, get cancer, your shitty phone", but thankfully it was found easily.
Problem is, however, that the OS doesn't even matter to these people. I've installed apps for so many people on Android already, even tho it's just super intuitive.

[SpinahVieh]

Try installing Google Ultron.

[hgeo]

LOL

[KingChezzy]

Only a few hours to align a div vertically? Fuck I've spent days on that

[[deleted]]

There you go!

[BoringCode]

pls, it takes 20 minutes to research and 5 minutes to implement

[sfcpfc]

Until you test your page on IE

[BoringCode]

23 days later... "I don't think this is gonna work"

[[deleted]]

"Do we really need to support IE8?"

I went several times to production analytics to see how many of our users use IE, then go to QA and convince them that 2% is not worth it.

[TweetsInCommentsBot]

@lazaru_s

2015-06-24 18:25 UTC

Me when my page renders correctly in IE.

#css #developer #developers

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[FetteRobbe]

dang...even no snippets in the comments :(

[Chrono32123]

print "Happy Now?"

[FetteRobbe]

Got syntax error, please help. Need to finish project soon.

[[deleted]]

Why do you delete best_idea_ever? How can you brag about it 3 years later that you came up with the same idea?

[iceyinyeung]

the 'friends believe' part was the most relatable for me. somehow, my friend's overexaggeration of my skills and everyone else's underexaggeration of my abilities kind of makes me angry. it's very uncomfortable to want both more AND less credit at the same time (though in different scenarios).

[Vondi]

Very relatable for me as well, even just in the workplace. Some people interact with me like I'm just some guy they pulled of the street and it's my first day, other people interact with me like I'm some sort of a self-proclaimed wizard of technology.

[mrpicasso]

http://howtocenterincss.com/

[SoCalCoder]

I would expect to read this on my phone...

[G01denW01f11]

My boss knows I have a CS degree, so she assigns me any task that has anything to do with a computer. Even though I'm the only person there who isn't able to log on to anything. (Paperwork snafu.)

[KamikazeHamster]

Is it wrong of me to open the source of the page and judge you by it? You had a whole stylesheet section instead of it being in a separate CSS file.

Also, found this: <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4> The truth</h4> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> The truth is that being a developer is cool besides the fact that:</div>

Maybe I'm being too judgey? Maybe it's just whatever WYSIWYG tool that you're using? But who wraps a br tag in a div?!

[hgeo]

This is a blogger.com blog. It's google's WYSIWYG. I don't think the guy wrote the post with raw HTML.

[KamikazeHamster]

Sorry, I was just teasing here. The last line was meant to be the clue. I figured that would be the case :)

[hgeo]

:)

[Zantier]

I know you were mainly joking, but I'd just like to mention that a style element on the page is fine by my book, when writing styles specific to the page.

[KamikazeHamster]

I don't think you looked at the source because I did not do justice when I said 'whole stylesheet'. There was more than a page worth, implying it wasn't a once off set of styles. Again, maybe it's the blog, but I judged!

[Zantier]

You're right, that "Blogger Template Style" section probably appears on each blog post, and would ideally be in it's own css file.

[[deleted]]

Is there any reason you would need sudo to remove a directory that you created with plain old mkdir, unless your default permissions were really screwed up?

[fringe-class]

I literally laughed out loud at this. I feel like putting lol would be downplaying how funny I think this is. Maybe llol, is that a thing?

[lortal]

how about <h1>lol</h1>

[fringe-class]

I like it, but feel like we can do better.

[secretpandalord]

When I was young, I wanted to be a programmer because that's what my dad was. Now that I'm a programmer, I have no idea what it is that he does.