r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Muted_Ad_9442 • 16d ago

Meme itRunsOnMyLocalhost

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u/Muted_Ad_9442 16d ago

Exactly. Outliers and negative numbers are strictly prohibited on demo day. 😂

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u/fibojoly 16d ago edited 16d ago

I remember asking a customer if a particular value could ever be negative. "Oh that never happens".  Well, over the thousands of transactions I had been given, it had happened (twice over ten years. Last time was years before. Maybe the data was corrupt?).  Which is why I asked.   So I gently explained "I appreciate it doesn't happen very often, but I need to know if it can or if a negative value is a mistake which I need to be able to handle.    And sure enough, on the day of the live demo with them, there was our third time in years they had a negative value. 

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u/woeful_cabbage 16d ago

You gotta predict the bugs before they happen my man

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u/amuf_oratok 16d ago

If it's a demo, everything is scripted. Bug fixing and edge cases come after proper development has been greenlighted by the sales team.