That’s not true, it’s illegal!

Is the timestamp in the screenshot what they’re talking about? It looks like it says 5 months, not 5 minutes.

Maria WAAAH

Feelin like a freak on a leash…

Easy mistake. This is a reign deer. You can tell because of the rein of terror.

I was told about a bug in a specific tool. It was being used in production. Apparently we’ve gotten a lot of complaints about it over the years, and they would complain if the site was actively used it always failed.

I couldn’t find it in the development branch in source control.

I asked if this tool was purchased from a third party. My boss, who was not a developer, said no. And he was very sure of that. But he didn’t know where the code was.

I was the developer with the most seniority, and I was there for less than a year at this point.

I looked again. I finally found it… In an unapproved pull request from a few years prior.

The meat of this tool basically took information to make an order and create an order in the system.

Any time we needed to insert a record, it would find the highest Id in the table, increment 1, and insert the new record, id and all. It did this for every entity that needed to be inserted. Address, customer… Everything.

Worse, very little validation was done. Want to order something but it’s out of stock? No problem, this tool just pushed it right through.

Want to ship something using a shipping method that doesn’t exist? You got it.

Want to ship something to an address that doesn’t exist? Sounds like the warehouse’s problem.

Knowing about the level of knowledge here, you know that there were no transactions. All sorts of unused records were left in the database when there was an error. The users would get a generic error and try again several times, too.

The worst part was, we have an already existing function that would take order information and try to make an order. And it would give you actionable errors!

Unless the school that has the software dev program forces all their teachers to use this stuff…

I had mine in my early 20s. Sucked. Laying the groundwork for my own stability was a lot harder than it should have been, but I got it done anyway with a combination of a mountain of determination, an incredible amount of work, natural talent and smarts, and so much luck.

But the child will be an adult by the time I am 40, so I got that going for me.

It’s based on the snack, Chex Mix. Chex Mix is made of pieces with several different consistencies, like salty Chex, mini pretzels, mini breadsticks (small oblong cracker things), and rye chips (the round things).

The rye chip part of Chex Mix is really popular.

If they want their own space, they are just bigots. That’s what they called me when I excluded them from the general space in the past!

-the people arguing against that comm, probably

Gender modifier. Neutral, male, female.

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You can also get different skin color variations.

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Good. Fuck off, Kim Davis.

Roz could get it

Do you have a steamer? It doesn’t have to be fancy, just a little cheap Bissell steamshot will do the trick. Hit this with some steam and scrub.

If not, cover it with very hot water and let it sit for a few minutes. Try to scrub and drain. If it needs more, cover it with hot water again and add a cleaner like soap or Oxyclean. Scrub and drain after like 10 minutes.

You could also try cleaning it with Comet or a paste made of baking soda and water.

Lastly, you may also consider using a drill brush if the other methods aren’t cutting it.

It’s a problem when people just generate the code, see if it runs, maybe test it once or twice, and… That’s it.

Same issue with people blindly copying Stack Overflow and other code snippets on the web.

Like you say, the value we bring is in our review and understanding of the code, as well as our ability to make judgements on things like architecture.

A vast improvement over the original dialog.

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My meditation: “oh powers that be, give me the strength not to slap this bitch”

My area was full of trick or treaters. I saw more homemade costumes. Had some teens in the spirit, lots of adults, too. My kid got to hang out with some friends and trick or treat.

However, I didn’t dress up this year. Too much to do. My daughter’s costume was all stuff we already had. Didn’t decorate because, again, too much to do.

They do tend to mess up my order, but they are at least super chill and nice when I kindly ask them to fix it.