The Silent Scream Of Debugging

Content What we say What we mean Horrible hack Horrible hack that I didn't write Temporary workaround Horrible hack that I wrote It's broken There are bugs in your code It has a few issues There are bugs in my code Obscure Someone else's code doesn't have comments Self-documenting My code doesn't have comments That's why it's an awesome language It's my favorite language and it's really easy to do something in it. You're thinking in the wrong mindset It's my favorite language and it's really hard to do something in it. I can read this Perl script I wrote this Perl script I can't read this Perl script I didn't write this Perl script Bad structure Someone else's code is badly organized Complex structure My code is badly organized Bug The absence of a feature I like Out of scope The absence of a feature I don't like Clean solution it works and lunderstand it We need to rewrite it it works but I don't understand it emacs is better than vi It's too peaceful here, let's start a flame war vi is better than emacs It's too peaceful here, let's start a flame war IMHO You are wrong Legacy code It works, but no one knows how XCquit ESCIESCJC I don't know how to quit vi

JavaScript's type coercion is like that friend who tries to help but makes everything worse. Look at this beautiful chaos: typeof NaN returns " number " because obviously not-a-number is totally a number! Loose equality says true==1 but strict equality says true===1 is false. Make up your mind! Floating point? 0.5+0.1==0.6 is true but 0.1+0.2==0.3 is false. IEEE 754 strikes again! Math.max() with no arguments gives -Infinity while Math.min() gives Infinity . Peak logic. The masterpiece: (1+[]+[]+![]) has length 9 because it converts to "1" + "" + "" + "false" = "1false" And my personal favorite: true+true+true===3 is actually true because JavaScript converts booleans to numbers for addition! No wonder the creator is smirking. He unleashed this beautiful monster on us and now we're all stuck with it. And we can't even escape because the entire web runs on it!

Content This is Bill Bill is not a Computer Scince major When Bill meet anyone who is CS major Bill did not ask them to fix his computer. Bill is smart Be like Bill

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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

ChatGPT just pulled the ultimate edge case handling! Someone asked how many r's are in "straberry" (misspelled), and it correctly counted two r's. But then it went the extra mile with that "However, if you meant 'strawberry'..." follow-up. It's like when your code has that one bizarre conditional branch that saves your entire system from crashing when users type "straberry" instead of "strawberry." The kind of defensive programming that makes senior devs nod in approval while junior devs wonder why you're handling cases that "will never happen" — until they absolutely do happen in production.