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signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting
I really enjoy dev comments when they know it won't be read by end users. Here's something I encountered today:

quote:

USB Install stick

Overview

You are about to destroy the data on a flashstick to make a flashstick which destroys the data on Linux machines. Exercise a little caution. I should really operate an LLC.

quote:

Script Usage

Under Linux (somewhere)

./prepare_install_stick.sh -d /dev/sdx

where /dev/sdx is the USB drive YOU WANT TO MURDER.

You guys got good dev teams???

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Che Delilas
Nov 23, 2009
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One of the devs in my company's ancient past got into some kind of fight with the architect about how to implement access to features of an application, and lost. So when he implemented it the way the architect told him to, he named all the tables and associated stored procedures "hack." So a feature goes into the feature_hack table, roles go into the role_hack table, and the stored proc to associate a user with a role is insert_user_role_hack. Stuff like that; there are a decent number of these. I can just see the guy seething in his chair, coding this up.

Our poo poo is implemented juuust poorly enough that it would be dangerous (and therefore take time that we don't have) to rename things, and gives us no benefit. And it's funny.

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