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Content Hacker Scripts 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 (I) 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 I'm keeping those

Content Sophie Koonin type error What do you call a pickup line from a software developer? A pull request. 12:09 AM 20 Feb 19

Ah, the sacred ritual of code handoffs. Six months of work, zero documentation, and now two devs staring at each other with the same confused expression. "Add comments," says the first guy who wrote 2,000 lines of spaghetti code with variable names like 'x1' and 'temp_fix_v3'. Meanwhile, the second dev is secretly planning to rewrite the whole thing anyway because "it's faster than understanding someone else's logic." The circle of life in software development continues...

Content Teacher: The test isn't that confusing The test: Is this a a valid c program or a valid python program? include stdio.h define print(x) int main()printf(x); print( "Hello World!")

The classic bait-and-switch of software development. The developer casually agrees to deliver five features by next week—a miracle in itself—but the moment unit tests are mentioned, reality hits harder than a production bug at 4:59 PM on Friday. It's like asking someone if they want dessert, waiting for them to get excited, and then adding "but you have to run a marathon first." Suddenly that chocolate cake doesn't seem worth it. The blank, horrified stare says it all. Writing code? Fun! Writing tests to prove your code actually works? Existential crisis territory.