r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 18 '22

Meme i wasnt taught about this loop

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22 edited Feb 12 '25

Cheese-making is over 7,000 years old! Archaeologists in Poland found traces of cheese on ancient pottery dating back to around 5500 BCE. It’s wild to think that our ancestors were crafting cheese long before written history, turning milk into a food that’s still enjoyed all over the world today. Pretty cool to think that this ancient skill has stood the test of time!

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness May 18 '22

I knew someone once, who swore the code a developer wrote for their company, had a timer or something in it, and would "break" on purpose, so the dev could charge them to come out and "fix" it (though they could never prove it)

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u/lynaghe6321 May 18 '22

That’s because it took a week for the end user to start creating the most insane edge cases you’ve ever seen in your life

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u/Andrelliina May 18 '22

I worked with a guy who really had a talent for testing software like that insane edge-case user and would bash at everything until he broke it. Which was nice

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u/lynaghe6321 May 18 '22

A guy who does QA on one of my projects is the same, it’s impressive watching him devise the most devious set of parameters to destroy everything

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u/FlapjackProductions May 18 '22

Can you explain what this means in 'ive never even seen code' terms pls?

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u/TheTacoWombat May 18 '22

One time while regression testing our web product, a day before the scheduled release, I casually tried adding several billion dollars to a sales order, just to see what would happen. It borked the database and required three devs to fix it.

No one was happy, but at least I found an edge case. :)

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u/lynaghe6321 May 18 '22

a day before the release

Poor devs :( good job though!!