Isn’t it in Brasil where video games are still legally recognised as gambling or some shit like that? Was a few years back I heard about it from a Brazilian friend but that was quite shocking !

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Welcome to the wonderful world of reverse proxies!

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one. I’m still salty about Concorde (as any French person should be, really).

Be aware that bytes exist for a start, I reckon.

Depression happens. I hope you get better!

Asshole in the Middle?

Didn’t want it in Opera, don’t want it in Firefox. I mean they can keep trying and I’ll just keep on ignoring this shit :/

Imagine not knowing what “big naturals” means, and calling people retarded over it. It doesn’t make you sound like a grown up, you know.

That second animation with the guy casting twenty thousand magic missiles to destroy one dude is fucking pathetic. I mean, the animation is fine, but I wish magic was a bit more awe inspiring…

I vividly remember a downloaded game telling me they had run out of available licences, once. Can’t remember exactly, but I’m pretty certain it was on Steam. How you run out of numbers still rascals me, all these years later. And I say this as a software dev.

I once landed a job at a small company doing a software for medical analysis labs all over the country. Software had been around for over ten years at this point. They had no source control. Nothing. Absolute nightmare.
They were literally starting to use source control when I arrived.
In 2015.

Krita is fucking slow though :/

Wait wait wait… RiF ain’t dead?!

Let me see if I can improve on that summary : “Alright, look, we know, okay? But dude! So. Much. Money !”

That’s because you didn’t try our lord and savior SASS. Vanilla CSS should be illegal at this stage.

JsonSchema is a way to validate some JSON. A great thing when you want to stop any sort of malformed data from coming in. Instead of wrecking your head in your code testing whether this bit here is not null, or is that string a valid boolean (I still remember that shitty piece of code they had, ugh!) or that bit is empty or that one is an actual number, or a string that can only have such and such value, well, you can formalise all this in one place, as a data file instead of code. Very convenient.

Except when it turns out you’re using a JSON library that’s not one, not two, but six major versions behind, and the security department won’t greenlight you using anything recent because… fuck you, that’s why. And to add insult to injury, we were the Quality department. Responsible for analysing the code quality of thousands of coders, around a hundred thousand programs (mostly COBOL but also C#), of a European banking group… The JSON schema was for adding a layer of non existant security to our API. But no, let’s keep accepting shitty malformed JSON (because of course we kept receiving shitty JSON; that’s why we wanted to implement this)

So I had to rewrite a lot of custom code to patch the bugs we found in the library, and none of the nifty tools that let you put in json and generate json schema would work for us. Heck, they even have JsonSchema to validate your JsonSchema but those wouldn’t work either, so far behind our version was.

Fucking awesome experience. I’m glad it’s behind me.

I feel this in my bones. As an OG dev, I had this incredible urge to smack people when I was working for my last job and I saw the API specs with everything being sent as strings through JSON. Boolean? Sure, let’s use a string. Integers? Sure we’ll do conversion in our code, that’ll be more efficient… So fucking infuriating. Oh and don’t get me started on JsonSchema T_T

So does that compensate for all those pirated games that people actually do play?

“Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again?” pause “Is it plugged in?” pause “You’re welcome”