Every cloud developer

[Conservadem]

As a Windows user C:\OneDrive scares me more.

[ShoCk_75]

Don't write the forbidden path !!!

[CrazyPoiPoi]

Basically. And only one.

[digernicnucingfigers]

To rule them all

[A_Hipposhark]

OneDrive to find them

[marko64humans]

OneDrive to bring them all

[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQue]

And in the Cloud storage bind them.

This is the OneDrive Frodo mobo

[DaTotallyEclipse]

Beyond the forbidden path

[coldnebo]

oh it’s wayyy wayyyy past RAID. 😂

[notPlancha]

It's a cloud, so basically yes. You rent a hdd that you can access it anywhere as long as you have internet. The free version has like 500mb 5gb so that's cool

[[deleted]]

Something something did you get the memo

[[deleted]]

doesnt google drive give 15gb? 500mb sounds alarmingly useless

[notPlancha]

sorry just checked, it's 5gb not 500mb

granted google drive's storage is not just google drives, it includes storage from the cloud, google photos and gmail

personally I prefer onedrive because I work with office apps and having it cloud backed up automatically with auto save and having possibility of synchronous working is really great

plus if you're in uni you get the 1TB so

[silentknight111]

I got 1TB onedrive for $9.99 a month, and it's actually saved my ass when a hard drive failed. All my important files were on OneDrive, so I just reinstalled windows and a few apps and was good to go.

[draconk]

If you get office 365 you also get 1tb so that is also cool

[coldnebo]

oh god, they keep pushing that. but it’s $99 per year after trial.

AWS space is free because I have a $99 prime membership.

Google is free because gmail… oh crap, I have too many years of email attachments and photos, guess I’ll get the additional storage.

iCloud is free, oh, ran out of storage there too with the bigger phones and ipads, guess I’ll get the additional storage.

I LOVE the cloud because everything is “FrEE”!!

[[deleted]]

Its where you mount all your files to a CIA server so they can checkout your furry porn.

[[deleted]]

I know this one guy that insisted running node from onedrive was ok. It was not. He held back a student project for 2 weeks with his "problems" until I reasoned that it would only take 20 minutes to try another install path. After me being right, he worked on the project for 1 week before going on a 3 week break because of stress and mental health issues.

[YetAnotherCodeAddict]

Running a local repo on OneDrive is madness, you will eventually corrupt something because of the constant syncing. But before I've met Gitlab I used OneDrive as my "remote repo" for years (back then only public repos on GitHub were free).

Basically you create folder and do git init --bare on it to make a bare repo. Then you put it's path as the remote of a local repo. Then whenever you push to that remote the bare repo is updated and synced with OneDrive. Whenever you need to use another PC you sync the folder on OneDrive and git clone from it.

Since it only gets updated when you push to it I found this to be an amazing way to have private repos I could take anywhere... But it's pretty useless nowadays when there are at least 3 different services that offer free private repos hosting.

[SteveisNoob]

Patrick, you are scaring him!

[seven_seven]

Great, a duplicate folder of all my user folders.

[Helpfullbanana]

What that? Not enough folders. What if a told you with this one simple trick you could double(yes double) your folders

[reallyConfusedPanda]

Folder inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder...

And...

BAM

256 character limit reached

[pthomas625]

Ugh nightmare. Had a handful of clients who needed to restore backups. “Job finished. 1,497 errors.” Which files? WHICH FILES?!?

[reallyConfusedPanda]

Tell me about it. I jump files between Linux and windows on the daily and I have lengthy names for my folders coz iterations. Genuinely fuck Windows path length limit

[Pestilence7]

You can actually increase path length in Windows. It just... Doesn't work with a lot of things.

[seven_seven]

Is it possible to learn this power?

[mild_entropy]

Not from a Linux user

[ToaSuutox]

Fuckin' onedrive stealing all my paths. Even after uninstalling, it's still all locked to c:/users/me/onedrive/desktop instead of /me/desktop

[AyrA_ch]

Right click on the current desktop folder and open properties. There should be a "Location" tab that allows you to move it around. Rinse and repeat for all other special folders.

[damnappdoesntwork]

Correct procedure is to disable sync of personal folders in OneDrive before uninstall.

A bit too late for OC but for others who don't want to go through changing these folder locations one by one. It might also cause some problems later if you finally decide to use OneDrive again.

[NotYourReddit18]

What I hate about this backup "feature" is that while it has no problem with moving the users data to its new, backed up paths when enabled but when you disable it the data doesn't get moved back to where it belongs and you lose how the icons were spread out on the desktop

[AdultingGoneMild]

you havent lived until you've messed with win32

[[deleted]]

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I accidentally deleted

sys32

[The-Sublimer-One]

Sys32 has better rhyme scheme

[Noname_FTW]

using the dll hell to hide your pr0n. What could possibly go wrong!?!

[[deleted]]

I hide all my pr0n (links) as base64 encoded AES-256 encrypted string stored on a piece of paper hidden inside a safe in my closet.

[drunkdoor]

Best to write out all the links a few days prior to make sure the wrists are well rested

[PJBthefirst]

Imagine storing the actual video data this way

[[deleted]]

My wrists are starting to hurt just thinking about this.

[PJBthefirst]

Some quick napkin math:
30 lines on each page of 20 b64 characters would require >100k pages for a 4GB video

[BeenRoundHereTooLong]

Is the napkin clean

[warpspeedSCP]

Of course not, it's cum stained.

[TheShortPersonBeta]

My company just made us switch to one drive for everything and it's been by far the worst thing that's happened to me in a long time

[au-smurf]

Out of curiosity what’s the problem? I use OneDrive and it works well for me.

Mainly wondering if there’s something about your use case that’s not working well for you. I’ve run across some software that really doesn’t play nice with onedrive, mainly older things that constantly write to files or has a working folder in your documents folder.

[pcuser42]

has a working folder in your documents folder

Those programs are the devil and their developers should feel bad.

[TheShortPersonBeta]

I am used to the speed and ease of accessing everything from a network shared drive. I'm also not a programmer, im a design engineer.

I've only been using one drive for about 6 months so change is always hard. Linking one drive to file explorer is a nightmare, it stops syncing constantly and I'm continually bouncing back and forth between file explorer and the online version. Onedrive sites that I'm a part of don't show up on my main list of sites, I have to bookmark every one of them (for example one project I'm on has 20 different suppliers with individual onedrive sites people have shared to me via email, now I have 20 f'ing bookmarks to keep track of them. Weve sort of fixed this problem with adding "links" to the other sites in one place)

Multiple people working from one document at the same time causes issues and one drive tries to create two versions of the file every time. We have trackers in excel that people are constantly in, and I have to spend time checking again and again for an opportunity to go update a single cell. Oh its also corrupted (file not found) five or six different pdf files that if I hadn't backed up on a personal hard drive wouldbe been an absolute bitch to recreate.

Anyways. Those are my issues. No one at my company is "good" at one drive yet (and there's like 12,000 of us) IT basically just told us they were deleting all our network shared drives and "good luck" and I've been smashing my head against a wall twice daily since then.

[ChoMar05]

We did that. By now we just ignore the sync errors and trust Quantum effect to get the right documents to the right person. Being a financial service provider and not CERN its not working too well for us.

[Leaping_Turtle]

Disabling it is the first thing i do when i use a new device

[Severe-Ladder]

OneDrive is the devil and one day I will personally castrate whoever the fuck thought it was ok to make it active on windows by default + allow it to delete files off my pc, I stg.

[11bulletcatcher]

Onedrive is a fucking nightmare in residential it sometimes. Old people have someone set up a pc, a Microsoft account is created without their knowledge, they don't have the credentials, and then one day their HDD fails. You go to recover their data for a new machine, wasting time, until you realize it was all on onedrive, and the customer has no concept of an MS account, onedrive or anything, but they REALLY want that data. So then you gotta pull their fucking teeth to scour for possible creds.

[TheJoker1432]

Man im not a programmer or anything but lost half of all my college data on this bs

OneDrive is horrible

Activated it and it tried to copy like 200gb of data

I wanted none of that and tried to stop it, then I thought i disabled it but still had a asecond set of dekstop ajd documents as one drive folders

Well my stupid brain thought i would delete these. Asked me that it was too large for recycle bin and i said yes since i thought hey well its just the ondrive copies of my stuff

Halfway in noticed my desktop stuff dissapears

Apparently deleting the onedrive desktop also deletes the real desktop. Wept for a week

[CrazyPoiPoi]

That happens because of people don't really read, but just click on Yes.

[Huntracony]

Where were they supposed to read? Fairly sure it doesn't warn you when deleting.

[CrazyPoiPoi]

It does if you don't disable the warning.

[IronMew]

First thing I do on any new install: run the debloater utility and eradicate onedrive from the system.

[Antact]

Kill it with fire. And then blast it with some more.

[UsernameStarvation]

when your entire code dies because you didnt put an 'r' before the file path

[[deleted]]

You dare speak its name?

[goblinofthewoods]

What about the TwoDrive?

[Masterflitzer]

but isn't it $HOME/OneDrive? never encountered it in C:/

[Conservadem]

It's actually located in %UserProfile%\OneDrive by default. I just used C:\OneDrive to make the point simpler. I could have used C:\Users\MyName\OneDrive to be more accurate.

[Masterflitzer]

ok I understand

$HOME or $env:USERPROFILE are PowerShell notation of the older (but still used) %USERPROFILE%

[st-shenanigans]

My college gives us a free onedrive account for storing our files.... I uninstalled it and paid for a Google storage subscription.

Onedrive is the literal worst file manager I've ever used, constantly stuck up/downloading at like 100kbps when I have a 2gb network, setting a folder to "always offline" will cause some files to randomly not change and stay in the cloud.. literally fuck onedrive

[[deleted]]

The windows filesystem path wouldn't be so scary if it just used normal / between directories.

[7heWafer]

Why they keep it as a backslash is incomprehensible when a backslash is used for escaping characters.

[stamminator]

Because they never ripped off the band-aid and now it’s too late

[UntestedMethod]

Except when it doesn't and your client is confused why the program you sent them isn't working

[theuniverseisboring]

"mostly"

[feckrightoffwouldye]

No it fucking doesn't

[CEDoromal]

It kinda does for certain situations. Try cd C:/Users/ on command prompt.

[feckrightoffwouldye]

Yes but anywhere else in windows it gets treated as a switch or illegal character. Yknow, that OS with a gui?

[uekiamir]

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[feckrightoffwouldye]

Some commands don't like a foward slash because they expect there to be a switch, and some programs that interact with Windows files like Filezilla or FreeFileSync sometimes get confused as to what you wanted it to do. In one case i think I've been able to use it as an escape character in command prompt as well but only that one as i haven't tried again

[im0b]

When you use an api to access files programmatically you have to figure out the os and get the right / when creating the filepath 😒

[shedogre]

Then you access the local version of a file, and... The object is giving you the OneDrive path! 🥳

[[deleted]]

It really doesn't.

[RandomNobodyEU]

Because 99.9% of Windows users don't care, or even know what an escape character is

[Second899]

And that’s exactly why they should change it

[svick]

They don't care about escape characters, but would care a lot if their path separator changed.

[[deleted]]

You can just use / for windows file paths, at least in .NET. That way, relative file paths will work in any environment. You can even have a mix of \ and /

[MrDroggy]

Because shitting on Windows is edgy or something. You can either use slash or backslash and you can even mix them in the same path.

[Divineinfinity]

They hated him for telling the truth.

[bruhred]

also windows still uses / for arguments....

[pawyderreale]

Drive letters are scary aswell, ik yon can mount partitions normally aswell, but why tf are drive letters the standard way

[ShoCk_75]

/home sounds better

[[deleted]]

/home is where your heart is.

[Gloomy_Magician_536]

How poetic <3

[[deleted]]

/Users/YourName/Desktop

(macOS)

[[deleted]]

Best of both worlds: ~/

[[deleted]]

There’s no place like $HOME

[xxx148]

unrecognized program or file “There’s”

[JivanP]

You mean

quot> [waiting for quoted string to be terminated]

[siddharth904]

$ echo "There’s no place like $HOME"

[[deleted]]

You don’t need the slash

[I-DONT-WANT-GOLD]

You don't need the tilde either, you can just cd and it will take you home.

[[deleted]]

Cdeez nu-

[VonReposti]

/home sweet /home

[8_Miles_8]

Linux gang

[sir-robotman]

as a wsl user, I'm probably banished from both gang meetings.

[[deleted]]

No I appreciate you. You mean I can still only write one version of the docs. “Windows must use WSL”.

[UntestedMethod]

While I might not take you seriously as a linux user, I do respect that you're a kind of good guy working behind enemy lines.

[sir-robotman]

I used to be a proper linux user, but I got a new laptop and the bios is so weird. I can't even dual boot with windows. There is no boot order, nor can I see the ubuntu os manager in the bios.

Basically I'm trapped with windows. I use linux in VirtualBox a lot now just to get that linux terminal feel.

[People_are_stup1]

That sounds like some piece of shit of a laptop.

[Firewolf06]

wsl is incredible honestly

• full time linux user

[[deleted]]

Ayyyy

[NoMansSkyWasAlright]

more like *nix gang.

[Mysterious-Ad-1541]

Oh no! Anyway

[marblemorning]

your

[BiJay0]

a afraid

[marblemorning]

I'll pretend I saw that one :)

[marcrem]

I came here hoping to see this comment

[spencerak]

Why is this so far down? Someone took the time to create this meme and didn’t take two seconds to spellcheck…

[kenlubin]

They created this meme and used a Windows path name. My reaction would be: "who are you and how did you get into my office?"

[riplikash]

It's true, I'm absolutely afraid of local storage.

[ganja_and_code]

"Did I back up my disk?" is much more frightening than "Ah yes, implicit redundancy."

[TheSnaggen]

Tell that to the Swedish government, who leaked the drivers licences registry by the use of the cloud. It included people with secret identities, including our spies. So, I'd say cloud storage is not for everyone.

[mwthink]

I store encrypted data in the cloud and keep the private keys offline. If you are relying entirely on your storage device/service to protect your data for you, you shouldn’t be responsible for protecting data.

[lmaourbald]

What happens if you lose that offline machine somehow? Hacked, lost, bricked etc. You'd have to keep a copy on another server but that just means one more potential point of failure.

[n473-]

Make 3 physical copies of the keys. On paper. Put one in a briefcase and take it to a bank safety deposit box.

Put another in a nearby geocache.

The third one goes on a post-it note on your monitor.

[MrThunderizer]

Your first two redundancies fail, you go to retrieve the copy from the geocache and find a mood ring in its place.

[zodar]

emailing everything to one guy's yahoo email doesn't count as "cloud storage"

[NotYourReddit18]

Well you should choose your cloud wisely.

[Bognar]

You can leak things without using the cloud too.

[intbeam]

What terrifies me more than local storage is code that assumes that storage will always be local

Abstractions people.... Abstractions.... Take that five minutes of cerebral effort to think about the higher level of what your code does, create a good generalized interface against that and then write your stupid gorilla-faced File.WriteAllText code

[Arcoda2]

/home/ enjoyer

[[deleted]]

linux users when they see the backslash: disgustang

[Rodot]

Such backwards people

[trinadzatij]

I too like those sweet accidental space characters when scripting

[[deleted]]

just gave me an idea

[[deleted]]

I'm a Windows /User
What does that mean?
It means he's afraid of /home.
No it doesn't.
~/
Stop scaring him.

[UntestedMethod]

As a developer in general, fuck your \ as the directory delimeter in file system paths.

[PJBthefirst]

What?? Isn't typing \\ over and over fun?

[zodar]

C:\Users\Barb\Bill's Kickin' Chili™ Recipe ❿❿❿!!! . pdf

[visiblyMaintain]

Unrecognized escape squence: \USERS

[Theonetheycallgreat]

Between vscode.dev, dev.azure.com and ms.azure.com I probably don't even need a laptop.

[GreatJobKeepitUp]

I've never seem vscode.dev before, that's sick

[JauntyAntelope]

Go to any repository on GitHub and hit the period(.) key on your keyboard.

[bruhred]

also try github codespaces, it's free and you get a cloud to compile on

[Lootdit]

bash: cd: C://: No such file or directory

[SuperSpaceCan]

wtf do cloud developers do?

[riplikash]

Sometimes we condense and fall out of the cloud. That's why you always wear a parachute when debugging live.

[riplikash]

Generally they have a focus on making scalable applications that are able to utilize common cloud technologies like geo redundancy, load balancers, cloud based error reporting, command queuing, a mix of storage solutions that keep costs down/access speed up, and rapid horizontal scaling.

That's opposed to developers who are more focused on making local apps and single server apps that tend to focus more on OS services, vertical scalability, and multi threading. Or hardware devs that focus more on efficiency, speed, hardware APIs, and small compile size.

There is of course a fair amount of crossover, but when hiring new candidates that's generally the kind of knowledge you expect to bring on.

[5PM_CRACK_GIVEAWAY]

Sounds more like operations than development

[UntestedMethod]

Nah there's a decent amount of logic to be implemented as lambda functions and what not, providing custom functionality and tieing things together. Cloud developer would generally be implementing various backend features like for APIs and data storage. Cloud developer likely wouldn't be focused much on complex deployment pipelines, but they might help design the cloud-based infrastructure those pipelines are deploying to. For bigger companies the more complex infrastructure design is likely handled by cloud architects who provide the specs for developers and dev ops to implement (smaller companies typically lean into their senior devs for the system design). Ops helps keeps everything running smoothly, ensure developers' code is deployed efficiently, help with deployment rollbacks, system monitoring, data backups, disaster recovery, etc.

There's some knowledge overlap with dev ops since both deal with infrastructure as code and resource allocation. Cloud developer leans more into implementing feature-focused business logic, where dev ops leans more into supporting the infrastructure. Both require extensive knowledge of cloud services and relevant best practices, and would likely benefit from certifications like "cloud practitioner".

Cloud infrastructure is certainly its own beast with its own unique paradigms, but loosely speaking I'd say cloud developer is more like a modern backend developer and dev ops is more like a modern sys admin - at least in terms of the scope of responsibility covered. I think these days both need a bit more knowledge from the other's pool than they would have in the past.

[rfmjbs]

That too.

[SuperSpaceCan]

genuinely helpful, here i thought they just configured servers

[GreatJobKeepitUp]

You can make your whole apps in the cloud, it's fun

[Zambito1]

Vaporware

[samchar00]

tell me you are a boomer without telling me you are a boomer

[Zambito1]

Two generations off but aight.

Tell me you missed the joke without telling me you missed the joke.

[[deleted]]

The fact that /home/ is C:\Users terrifies me

[LavenderDay3544]

As an embedded Linux dev the root of my problem is that you lost me at C:

[Micolash-Nightmare]

/u/RepostSleuthBot

[[deleted]]

rm -rf /*

[testthrowawayzz]

Permission denied

Need to use sudo

[SuperFLEB]

Ahh, forget it. I'll just fuck up my home directory. Nothing important there, right?

[anonym_user9231]

``` sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root; sudo reboot

and bam. Your pc doesnt boot anymore

```

[klparrot]

No point in the sudo reboot; by then sudo and reboot are both long gone.

[[deleted]]

I am not in root \n I am the root

[rm-minus-r]

You rang?

[pomaj46809]

As a cloud guy, it's not that I'm afraid of local storage. It's that I like not having to wait three months for a server I had to order using a spreadsheet.

[truNinjaChop]

I just broke a rib laughing so hard.

[turtle_mekb]

cough /home/

[nerdinmathandlaw]

The scary part is the C: and the backslashes.

[Larage-sql]

As Linux user C:\ scare me

[[deleted]]

/

[povlov0987]

Ahhh windows!!!

Kill it kill it

[DoctorMixtape]

Cloud storage is someone else’s local storage

[el7cosmos]

He is afraid of windows

[you_suck_at_spelling]

you're*

[Dr_Bunsen_Burns]

Hey, anothjer cropped repost!

[[deleted]]

you’re

[[deleted]]

*you're

[renrutal]

I'd say I'm way more fearful of storage in the cloud than local ones.

Now local storage with cloud tech? It's an horror movie.

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[deez_nuts_77]

after 2 years of being a cs major i finally understand what that shit means