A long time ago I worked at one of the big office supply stores and this was “true” back then too. The caveat was that the ink that came in the printer was usually only half full. The printers themselves were sold at a loss and the companies made their money on selling the ink.
There are a couple that come to mind.
Definitely the worst, a C# .net mvc application with multiple controllers that were 10s of thousands of lines long. I ran sonarqube on this at one point and it reported over 70% code duplication.
This code base actively ignored features in the framework that would have made things easier and instead opted to do things in ways that were both worse, and harder to do. For example, all SQL queries were done using antiquated methods that, as an added benefit, also made them all injectable.
Reading the code itself was like looking at old school PHP, but c#. I know that statement probably doesn’t make sense, but neither did the code.
Lastly, there was no auth on any of the endpoints. None. There was a login, but you could supply whatever data you wanted on any call and the system would just accept it.
At the time I was running an internal penetration test team and this app was from a recent acquisition. After two weeks I had to tell my team to stop testing so we could just write up what we had already and schedule another test a couple months down the line.
I once saw an application that would encrypt (not hash, encrypt) passwords but then when a user was logging in, they’d encrypt the password candidate and then compare the cipher texts to see if they were the same. This was using 3des, so no IV.
There’s a great interview somewhere with the writers of one of these shows talking about how they knew this was shit and they had unofficial competitions with other shows to constantly one up each other on the stupidity.
I absolutely loved how epic rap battles of history handled Michael Bay. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_wYtG7aQTHA&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
I’m sure those folks that took the Louvre aint waiting on no manager to unlock deodorant at CVS.
Fuck it, just to be a little bit contarian, how much of a selection bias do you think might actually be present in the assumption “…then why don’t the rich ascend to this purer existence in a trailer park? Why is it always the poors?”
For sure we hear about the people that get rich and only want to get richer and fuck over everyone that gets in their way, but personally now that I think about it, I actually do know a few people that got lucky, made a bit, and thought “fuck it, I’m done. I’m going to go farm and smoke weed” or some similar equivalent. You’d never hear about those kind of people unless you directly know them. How many trust fund kids are out there just chilling and enjoying life without trying to exploit everyone around them?
It’s an “educational website” pushing a strong right wing narrative.
Edited to add, and by right wing narrative I mean alternate “facts” and revisionist views of history. https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63329/prageru-is-a-conservative-video-giant-heres-why-its-trying-to-get-into-schools
There used to be a spot near me that did exactly this. It was awesome.
Hol up, DS is now old enough to be considered retro‽
Why does my back hurt so much? Unrelated I’m sure.
A person I know (and don’t particularly like) created a start up on this idea a couple of years ago already. It’s creepy AF.
This show was the shit when I was a kid!
You just reminded me of the early days at a company I worked where the factory pattern was absolute. There were interfaces and factories for fucking DTOs. It was insanity! That was the place where I really learned the concept of “cargo cult”
I’ve already seen the taking point showing up on the right that the “… and domestic” part applies to the “antifa terrorists turning our cities into war zones and besieging federal (especially ICE) buildings.”
It’s a huge problem in any industry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_cross-selling_scandal
Oop just didn’t know the correct term for a HANO jump.
It has now been officially confirmed that he is in fact dead.
Doesn’t have my favorite classic, I’ll have to add it later.