Bug'S Life

SWEET MERCIFUL DATABASE GODS! Your boss splurges on DataGrip (a fancy database tool) thinking you'll suddenly become a SQL wizard, but the reality? The software crashes faster than my will to live during a production outage! It's the classic corporate solution - throw expensive software at problems instead of fixing the actual database architecture that's held together with duct tape and prayers. The audacity of hoping a premium tool will magically fix years of technical debt! Meanwhile you're sitting there watching the spinning wheel of death while trying to edit ONE. SIMPLE. FIELD. 💀

Content Have you ever seen code so bad it made you laugh? David Seidman, former Security Program Manager at Microsoft (2005-2016) Answered Feb 8 Upvoted by Aveesha Sharma, Masters of Science Software Engineering, Arizona State Univ... and Mandeep Kaur, MS Software Engineering, San Jose State University (2017) I was working for Microsoft's security incident response team investigating a vulnerability. We opened up the relevant file. It contained 10,000 lines of uncommented archaic C code. At the top was a single comment: This code has bugs. It did.

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute CRUELTY of throwing an innocent intern into the bottomless pit of legacy code! Look at that poor child sobbing over his spaghetti - LITERALLY what it feels like when you're staring at 10,000 lines of uncommented code written by some developer who left the company in 2007! The intern's tears are basically the universal debugging fluid at this point. That face is EXACTLY what happens when you realize the bug you're fixing is actually holding the entire application together like some kind of cursed load-bearing glitch. Whoever did this to the intern deserves to maintain a COBOL application with zero documentation for all eternity!

Content How people reacts differently to a single word. "Bug" Tester Developer Manager

Content Programmer outside interview The entirety of stack exchange at their beckoned call Code not working? I'll fix it tomorrow Programmer during interview Makes use of the best IDEAs Waaa I forgot how to write for loops

The ultimate Git soundtrack for those weekend coding sessions! Someone created a Spotify playlist with tracks that perfectly capture the emotional rollercoaster of version control. From the hopeful "Pull It" and "Push It" to the triumphant "Committed," the playlist quickly spirals into the all-too-familiar territory with "My Computer is Dying" and "Catastrophic Failure." And the grand finale? "F*** This S*** I'm Out" - the universal anthem played right after running git merge on the wrong branch at 11:59 PM on Friday. Only 17 minutes long because that's exactly how long it takes for Git to destroy your weekend plans.