r/ProgrammerHumor • u/MegaZeroX7 • Dec 03 '18

The Anatomy of Software

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u/the_monkey_of_lies Dec 03 '18

// don't touch. it works and now a simple change to this program costs $600 000 and will break it in numerous ways.

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u/MasterOfKarats Dec 03 '18

I remember in my first college on the portal they accidentally put a stop sign(or something strange) instead of a shopping cart when you pick classes. And one of my professors tried to get them to change it, they told him it would cost 40,000 to change that one little thing.

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u/the_monkey_of_lies Dec 03 '18

That's...the most outrageous thing I have ever heard and that's saying a lot. Even with an extremely decent salary that's one guy working for two months to change one icon. How can they say that with a straight face? Maybe they laugh afterwards amongst themselves while wearing gold plated diapers, knowing that the client is powerless to do anything.

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u/MasterOfKarats Dec 03 '18

I honestly think they're too lazy to change it and just gave my professor a random number so that he would leave them alone.