That’s not the scary part, it’s a fortune 500 international company whose customers could die if the product didn’t work…
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That’s not even code grief…
Two examples that were far worse:
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My last company wanted software developers. They offered to send me to code boot camp and give me a promotion. The boot camp was primarily python. I complete and get the promotion. New manager tells me the code base I’ll work on is actually c… Umm ok. New manager retires a week later. I spend a few weeks basically teaching myself c. New manager is assigned. He tells me I should basically assist the senior Dev, ok no problem. Find out the code base is actually c#… Should be doable it’s c based atleast. It’s c# framework 4.8 based on winforns… No one in the building had heard of a unit test…the code was released to production on December of '23. Oh and yeah the senior Dev then announced he was retiring. There are no other c# programmers on the team.
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I told this story before recently. On a separate c# code base the “login” function had hard coded credentials in the source, which checked if they existed in a local sql database table with one entry(the hard coded values) and then verified the returned value for “password” was >= than 5. It then logged you in. Didn’t check if the password was correct or even the correct length just that the return of the select statement was greater than or equal to 5 characters… Just for fun remember that false is 5 characters 😂
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Found Jimmy’s alt account…
For any British readers:
The toughest boss battle would be against Susie Dent.
I agree mostly, maybe a little more… I don’t want any more violent criminals and I don’t think lions from the safari should be brought into someplace like NY state.
That said I, as a natural born us citizen of several generations, believe we should welcome other potential citizens with few exceptions.
vrek@programming.devOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible?English
21·1 year agoYes but for example for seizures I want a simple form, not having to type in entries. Especially for siezures, it’s normally a busy event of caring for him, having to add a seizure taking more than a minute means it probably won’t be used.
vrek@programming.devOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible?English
1·1 year agoBoth good suggestions, thanks for the ideas
vrek@programming.devOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible?English
5·1 year agoI didn’t know they had free tiers… I’ll look into it
vrek@programming.devOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible?English
3·1 year agoHmm…i do have a raspberry pi that isn’t being used… Since it’s asp.net should be Linux compatible… Not a bad idea
vrek@programming.devOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible?English
5·1 year agoWell it’s also a learning project as through a series of events I am technically a software developer in job title who got thrown into a c# code base with databases after doing a python boot camp for 9 weeks and have no mentor to tell me what I’m doing wrong on professional projects.
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politics @lemmy.world•Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates | The clemency action applies to all federal death row inmates except three convicted of terrorism or hate-motivated mass murderEnglish
2·2 years agoIt’s a serious situation, but I can’t help but imagine the three others guys like “bruh, seriously!?”
It’s a great time as space age aka 2.0 just released. If you’re the type to get absorbed into min/maxing stuff, remember to say goodbye and I love you to your family before launching factorio.




No, misfortune for the people who depend on their products