The Great Departmental Divide

The most magnificent lie in gaming history. That disclaimer about "no programmers' bug count records were harmed" is the digital equivalent of finding a unicorn riding a rainbow. Anyone who's shipped software knows the truth—programmers were absolutely sacrificed on the altar of deadlines, their souls crushed under the weight of 3,427 Jira tickets labeled "critical." Their bug count records weren't just harmed—they were utterly obliterated, along with their sleep schedules, social lives, and will to remember what sunlight looks like. The gaming industry's version of "we value work-life balance" is just telling developers they can sleep when they're dead... or after the day-one patch ships. Whichever comes first.

Content int counter 0; while(true) loop for 5 seconds for (int i 0; i 2147483647 ; i) another loop because it's 2012 and PCs have gotten considerably faster :) for(int j 0; j 2147483647 ; j) ... System.out.println(counter ". Hello World!"); counter;

Content PYTHON OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING POOP

When your PR shows "-9,953" lines of code and your manager gives you a thumbs up. Nothing says "senior developer" like knowing what code not to write. The most efficient code is the code that doesn't exist. Somewhere a project manager is frantically updating their burndown chart while wondering how to report "negative progress" to stakeholders.

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

Content MEG I mean, if it had said 'error at line 16', I'd be the happiest man in the world But at line 548!? In a 70 line file?