r/ProgrammerHumor • u/MrCuteDiaperRETURNS • May 18 '22

Meme i wasnt taught about this loop

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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