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The eternal programmer struggle summed up perfectly! Our adventurer discovers the "scroll of truth" only to find out that MATLAB's bizarre 1-indexed arrays actually make mathematical sense. The immediate "NYEHHH" reaction and throwing the scroll away is every programmer who's been traumatized by switching between languages. Sure, it might make sense for math nerds, but try explaining that to my muscle memory after 10 years of array[0] . This is like finding out your arch-nemesis has a valid point - technically correct but I'll die on this zero-indexed hill anyway!

The eternal battle between "clean code" zealots and the pragmatic hackers who actually ship features. First panel: Someone proudly declares they like "clean code" - that magical unicorn every bootcamp graduate puts on their resume. Second panel: Someone dares to ask what that actually means. Third panel: "It means he's afraid of useful code" - the brutal truth bomb drops. Fourth panel: The clean coder desperately denies it. Final panels: And then we see the "scary" code - a fast inverse square root function that's actually efficient and solves a real problem, but doesn't follow the sacred "clean code" commandments. The horror! Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a "clean code" purist like a function that prioritizes performance over readability. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to make the damn thing work before the deadline.

That moment when you're just trying to write a simple loop but somehow end up implementing cryptographic-grade randomness in C. Nobody plans to become a cryptographer, it just happens while you're debugging pointer arithmetic at 3 AM. The worst part? You'll never be able to reproduce this accidental genius again. Your code is now simultaneously terrible and brilliant—Schrödinger's algorithm.

Content Safari a 17:37 1 Tweet Claudia Pellegrino cpellegrino 3d Does T-Mobile Austria in fact store customers' passwords in clear text tmobileat? PWTooStrong Telekomhilft SeloX SeloX AUT Replying to cpellegrino PWTooStrong and Telekomhilft Had the same issue with T-Mobile Austria. Apparently they are saving the password in clear because employees have access to them (you have tell them your password when you're taking to them on the phone... 94 17702 1,462 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat Replying to cpellegrino PWTooStrong and Telekomhilft Hello Claudia! The customer service agents see the first four characters of your password. We store the whole password, because you need it for the login for mein.t-mobile.at andrea 04042018, 07:29 453 Retweets 367 Likes 17 Claudia Pellegrino cpellegrino 2d Replying to tmobileat PWTooStrong and Telekomhilft Thanks for your reply Andrea! Storing cleartext passwords in a database is a naughty thing to do. plaintextoffenders.comfaqdevs What can we do to get your devs to fix that? 9 5 1797 M 1,564 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat 2d Hi cpellegrino, I really do not get why this is a problem. You have so many passwords for evey app, for every mail-account and so on. We secure all data very carefully, so there is not a thing to fear. Kthe 266 17307 M 266 EricM Korni22 1d Well, what if your infrastructure gets breached and everyone's password is published in plaintext to the whole wide world? 1761 M 1,288 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat 1d Korni22 What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good? Kthe 369 17527 (644 1 Eric Korni22 1d Bad news for you Kthe, nobody's security is that good. No, not even yours. It's not that I say you are 100 getting hacked - what if an employee accesses the database directly? 1766 2,017 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat 1d Korni22 Excuse me? Do you have any idea how telecommunication companies work? Do you know anything about our systems? But I'm glad you have the time to share your view with us. Kathe 343 17214 M 267 EricM Korni22 1d Well, I do since I worked for deutschetelekom, but thanks for asking. 3 years of something that's called Ausbildung" a bit more as contractor. 94 1723 954 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat 1d Korni22 So, you never worked for us in Austria though. But thank you very much for sharing your opinion. Kthe 043 1719 M31 Tweet your reply

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