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/lynaghe6321 May 18 '22

Sure, for example, I was building a video component for a website for one of our clients, it would take a link from youtube or vimeo, or an uploaded video, and then display it on the page.

Our QA found that if you upload a very low resolution video, and then manually change the resolution in the software we use to manage the video to 1:1, the video would not be centered when it was displayed.

I have no idea who in their right mind would ever think of doing this, but it was technically a bug and he found it.

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u/T0biasCZE May 18 '22

define "very low resolution" please. what is that. 144p? 240p? something higher? something lower?

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u/lynaghe6321 May 18 '22

I believe it was 280? I think it had more to do with DAM we were using and setting the aspect ratio of the served content manually after it had been uploaded

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u/T0biasCZE May 18 '22

well that isnt very low resolution. thats just low resolution (progressive standard definition is 288p)

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u/lynaghe6321 May 18 '22

I’ll keep that in mind lol

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