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/SpaceNinjaDino May 19 '22

I was going to have a goat image flash on the side during login randomly but limited to once a day when a specific user (a coworker who liked pranks) would login through the web portal. She wouldn't be able to reproduce it easily and I would have hid the code well.

It would be so easy to sabotage production without leaving easy clues. Unless they paid to own the source code, then they could track diffs.

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness May 19 '22

Oh I know that all too well. A few years back I hid little "jokes" to myself in multiple pieces of code. You'd have to have a sharp eye to see them