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The 80.000-line monster: How our entire company lived in a single server.js https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/1n4y7xd/the_80000line_monster_how_our_entire_company/ #JavaScript #DailyWTF #ProgrammingHorror

Rust devs think #C++ is like a horror film where memory leaks are the monster that keeps coming back for sequels nobody wanted. 😂 Meanwhile, C++ devs are proudly riding that memory leak rollercoaster, proving the point with every malloc-mishap! 🎢💥
https://www.babaei.net/blog/rust-devs-think-we-are-hopeless-lets-prove-them-wrong-with-cpp-memory-leaks/ #Rust #memoryleaks #programminghorror #developerhumor #codinglife #HackerNews #ngated

As a programmer slash reverse engineer with two decades of experience, I have seen many things. But today I saw something new. A full SaaS application with its entire backend interface built as … a single <canvas> tag.

That’s right, everything — user/permission management, uploaded file browser, system configuration screens — everything is painstakingly drawn programmatically as individual shapes and texts. Thank fuck I’m here as a user and not a developer.

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Why? Why would you do this?

Does anyone know which JSESSIONID cookie wins in this case? Based on my empirical studies, it is the last one, but I don't know it for sure.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can't change IIS settings on a web server to force `Accept-Encoding: br` onto every HTTP request that comes in.

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It's been a while since I fixed something by carefully crafting a `setTimeout`. #JavaScript #ProgrammingHorror

Just two more days of this inconsistent nonsense…
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freelancers, man

“my yarn build script fails, I’ll run `composer update`”
“shit, that didn’t help, I’ll install a new version of yarn”
“nope, let me just reinstall all the node_modules with this new version of yarn”
“yessss, it works now, time to push it”
“hey, dude, your build pipeline fails on my code, fix it”

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I never thought I would be sorry to see our current SAP integration gone, but this freakshow is making me rethink that.

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that sinking feeling when you realize this project has 100+ tests using #Symfony DomCrawler to open routes and submit forms, but they don’t have a single assert to verify the received response codes

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I'm going to share a terribly embarrassing secret:

In a recent programming assignment I created a doubly linked list. Somehow I had a bug that wasn't always assigning a previous value to a node. Couldn't track it down for the life of me!

So... rather than tracking down the bug in the limited amount of time left before the assignment was due, I created a function that traveled down the list to compare previous and next values and force them to match.

It is the hackiest thing I have ever written and I hope the professor never finds it!

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