Those who make liberal use of 'git bisect' can not be so easily trolled.
Even better, git bisect run. Why manually bisect when the computer can do it for you? :)
Things to commit just before leaving your job
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Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not some - all* US jurisdictions. From the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S. Code § 1030(5)(A)): >knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer
English isn't my first language, and I don't live in America so it's not like this matters to me, but now I'm curious. How is editing a source file you're meant to be editing "transmitting" anything?
The CFAA intentionally used broad wording, so it could be used in many different circumstances as possible. Here "transmitting" would be when the employee (who certainly doesn't have authorization to intentionally break things, mens rea) transmitted the file to the source control server.
Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not some - all* US jurisdictions. From the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S. Code § 1030(5)(A)): >knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer
English isn't my first language, and I don't live in America so it's not like this matters to me, but now I'm curious. How is editing a source file you're meant to be editing "transmitting" anything?
Modifying source code is transmitting information.
Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#104Something I wrote to amuse the junior front end developers here: document.write('Error: Script not found.'); var node = document.currentScript; if (node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); } Pop that in a JS file called something like jQuery.min.js and add it to an HTML page with the usual . It'll run when the page loads, add the line of text to the page, and then it'll remove it's own tag so there's no…
Why wouldn't you search for 'Script not found' in the source code..?
I'm a junior dev with just 1 year of experience and this was my immediate instinct.
Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not some - all* US jurisdictions. From the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S. Code § 1030(5)(A)): >knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer
English isn't my first language, and I don't live in America so it's not like this matters to me, but now I'm curious. How is editing a source file you're meant to be editing "transmitting" anything?
Not a lawyer, so this may not be 100% accurate:
Transmission is probably loosely defined as a means of getting code to the target system. It would likely include physically typing into the source file, uploading your own file through CLI or GUI, or pushing to a repository.
Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#106The horror story that I heard was a disgruntled engineer silently replaced the source codes (C++ based) in the project with compiled binary object files and he kept the source codes on his local computer, not checking those in. He did this over an extended period of time to make sure this crept into the backup tapes as well. No one found out because each engineer owned a code module of their own. Then he resigned. Wh…
That's insane.. He must have really hated his job.
and everyone else. Seriously. No sympathetic human being would do this without a deep-rooted hatred to everyone involved.
Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#107I would suggest before you leave your job, you say "it was nice working with you" to the people you liked working with, and absolutely nothing to those who you did not enjoy working with. The tech world is big in some ways, but also equally small in others. A select few might find this funny, but others will not appreciate their day (or longer) spent debugging your practical joke...and on the chance you actually get…
It's the correct advice, but I'm sure 99% of people reading this are seeing it as simply a joke. For the other 1% see above.
(author of the gist...) Anyone really thinks it's not a joke? This was all a few years ago, but IIRC the original thought behind it was something I saw on twitter, or perhaps just pondering how evil can C/C++ preprocessor could possibly be.
Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#108Ooh. I recognize one of the contributor names, @cmuratori, from another HN post: Handmade Hero: C game from scratch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604489
And another, @mike_acton, from CppCon 2014: Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design and C++” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8391464
Yeah there was some crowdsourcing via twitter back when I wrote the (initially short) gist.
Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#109and i read it just in time to have
"So basically just #include "
as the last comment, i think it was an interesting summary
Re: Things to commit just before leaving your job
#110I watched my friend swap the 'm' and 'n' keys around on the two tech directors keyboards the evening he left after goodbye drinks, the next day they both had to contact the IT support department as it turns out they still look at their keyboard whilst tapping in their passwords... amazing!