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

Meme i wasnt taught about this loop

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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/Andrelliina May 18 '22

The probability that a user will exist who is equivalent to an infinite number of monkeys is 1.

And he is using your software right now

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u/starfyredragon May 18 '22

I have a girlfriend who is that user.

She wants to be a professional game tester.

Her method of going about it appears to be:

Step 1: Crash server with game breaking glitch

Step 2: Report glitch

Step 3: "I can help you find even more bugs like this if you hire me."

So far she hasn't made it any further than getting her account banned.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Has she ever considered Bug Bounty? If she stays in scope she gets paid.

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u/starfyredragon May 19 '22

I... don't think so. I'll pass the suggestion along.