The Five-Minute Project Lifecycle

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Content gon chinesegon 2023-06-25 we had a good thing u stupid son of a bitch, we had free food, we had foos ball tables, we had insane tech salaries it all ran like clockwork. you could have shut ur mouth, coded and enjoyed it but you just had to blow it up w day in my life videos you and your pride and your ego ProdrammerHumor. io

Somewhere in the multiverse, SQL decided that letting you accidentally nuke your entire database was just too entertaining to prevent. That's why UPDATE and DELETE statements don't require a WHERE clause—they just strongly suggest it. It's like SQL is that friend who hands you a chainsaw and says "try not to cut your leg off" instead of giving you safety training. The number of junior devs who've learned this lesson by wiping production data is probably higher than the number of semicolons in their codebase. And yet, decades later, we're still teaching this lesson on classroom projectors instead of fixing the language. Classic tech industry solution: "Let's document the problem instead of solving it!"

Content Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut - AZ QUOTES

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Content ferlatte 12 days ago The Second Life updater just downloaded the updater.exe from the website and ran it with no validation. One day, that returned a 404. Cool thing about Win32: if you try to run an EXE, Windows checks to see if it's a valid format (PE). If it's not, it assumes that it's a COM: 16 bit 86 instructions, no header, no validation. The 404 page, when interpreted as 86 bytecode, effectively opened the LPT DOS device and wrote garbage into it. Windows would map that into your actual printer driver in some cases if you had a printer connected directly to your computer. Cheap inkjet printers don't do any validation, so they would freak out, spew paper, and in one case, physically break.