The Testing Food Chain

Forget renewable energy – just hire programmers! The meme shows a bracelet that converts stress into electricity, followed by an image of a programmer who's literally glowing with power like a human lightbulb. If tech companies actually harnessed developer anxiety, we'd solve the global energy crisis overnight. That deadline-induced panic when your code won't compile? That's not a mental health crisis – that's just you becoming a walking power plant. Silicon Valley's next big innovation: stress-powered data centers where the ping pong tables are actually just there to give you a false sense of hope before they throw another impossible sprint at you.

Ah, the sacred tomes of legacy code! A stack of books with the spine message "THESE BOOKS ARE HERE FOR AN ESSENTIAL STRUCTURAL PURPOSE. THEY ARE NOT FOR SALE." is basically the perfect metaphor for that 15-year-old codebase nobody understands but everyone's terrified to touch. Just like these books holding up some mysterious shelf, that spaghetti code written by a developer who left in 2008 is somehow keeping your entire production system from collapsing. Touch it? Refactor it? Don't be ridiculous! It's not meant to be understood—it's meant to be structural . The irony is delicious. We spend years learning clean code principles only to worship at the altar of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" when faced with the ancient scripts. The documentation? Oh, that left with Dave from Engineering years ago.

Content stackoverflow Questions git rebase: "error: cannot stat 'file': Permission denied" 91 13 I'm using git, and made a small commit followed by a large one. I decided to use git rebase to squash the two commits together before pushing them. (I've never done this before.) So l did: git rebase - i HEAD-2 This gave me my editor, where I chose to pick the earlier commit and squash the later one. When I saved, git said: error: cannot stat 'filename': Permission denied Could not apply sha1 for later commit... initial line of text for that commit Now: Neither commit appears when I do git log. git status tells me I'm "Not currently on any branch." One file is listed as modified and in the index, and two files are listed as untracked. My first commit had just one file (I think), and my second commit had a good dozen. What happened!? How do I fix it? gIt I git-rebase share edit close flag asked May 11 '11 at 21:33 Kyraless: 116k 26 137 183 Are you, by and chance, using git on windows? - Charles Bailey May 11 '11 at 21:35 Yes. I run the commands in a DOS window. - Kyralessa May 11 '11 at 21:36 49 Just close VISUAL STUDIO. It might work share edit flag answered Sep 25 '13 at 19:55 GEl Mandan 03 616 This worked for mel - Fillip Peyton Aug 15 '14 at 18:45 this is the correct answer.. Thank You! - toha Dec 17 '14 at 7:51 I had visual studio locking those files, too. Unlocker showed me. - Varga Tamas Jan 14 '15 at 8:13 Thank you! Worked for me - juliet Feb 11 '15 at 22:16

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Content Based on a true story: xxx: OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living inside the terminal. You know, that type of a guy who loves Vim, creates diagrams in Dot and writes wiki-posts in Markdown... If something - anything - requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that. xxx: So we're sitting here, looking through his, uhm, "legacy" xxx: You're gonna love this xxx: smack-my-bitch-up.sh - sends a text message "late at work" to his wife (apparently). Automatically picks reasons from an array of strings, randomly. Runs inside a cron-job. The job fires if there are active SSH-sessions on the server after 9pm with his login. xxx: kumar-asshole.sh - scans the inbox for emails from "Kumar" (a DBA at our clients). Looks for keywords like "help" "trouble" "sorry" etc. If keywords are found - the script SSHes into the clients server and rolls back the staging database to the latest backup. Then sends a reply "no worries mate, be careful next time". xxx: hangover.sh - another cron-job that is set to specific dates. Sends automated emails like "not feeling wellgonna work from home" etc. Adds a random "reason" from another predefined array of strings. Fires if there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am. xxx: (and the oscar goes to) fucking-coffee.sh - this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like sys brew . Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half- caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk. xxx: holy sht l'm keeping those