Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

Post by cscurmudgeon » Thu, May 05, 2022, 10:02 PM UTC

KMag wrote: post #139

haliskerbas wrote: post #131

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Some people might get off on that kind of culture. But this story makes me glad I don’t work there for some reason.

There's a good deal of responsibility in writing code that is going to run over every single page (and PDF document, MS Word doc, the higher ranked Flash animations, etc.) in the visible web. For my part, I once made a bad assumption about how the Google SAX-style parser handled callbacks for zero-length XHTML start-stop tags. I presumed that would get a callback with the end-of-open-tag and start-of-close-tag pointe…

Post by hawski » Thu, May 05, 2022, 10:04 PM UTC

technothrasher wrote: post #59

blueberrychpstx wrote: post #4

When I come across posts like these, I just wonder, "How in the world did the user discover this in the first place?!" Let's place bets: A) The user just let autocomplete "take it away" (not sure about this one since they were able to access the console) B) Pen Testing? C) Error copy and pasting? D) Actual dialog in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic love story where a robot discovers the Turing test and attempts to set itsel…

Years ago in school, maybe about 1992 or so, I managed to make xdm (X Display Manager) crash and dump me a root window by simply holding down a key until the buffer ran out. I remember wondering how anybody didn't discover this before me. Similar behavior with the university phone system (repeatedly pressing '0') eventually dropped me an outside line that I didn't have to pay for (yes, for you young folks, we used to…

Post by MiddleEndian » Thu, May 05, 2022, 10:04 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #124

MiddleEndian wrote: post #68

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Google Docs crashes in Firefox on Windows 10 with your link. When I re-create the document from scratch, it does not crash. When I copy the link to my non-crashing document and load it in a new tab, the crash then occurs when I edit the document in the new tab but not when I edit it in the original tab.

Maybe your "spelling and grammar" isn't on by default? Try toggling it on in your "from scratch" document (little "A" icon with a checkmark).

Post by coreyp_1 » Thu, May 05, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

AlexMuir wrote: post #144

Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row. The answer was as follows: The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog an…

Post by Alex3917 » Thu, May 05, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

KMag wrote: post #123

Alex3917 wrote: post #96

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Probably just getting triggering excessive backtracking on some regex.

Ironic, from the authors of RE2. They know the correct way to implement regexes. Though, when I worked on Google's indexing system, some researchers were having machine learning generate regexes to run on every page in the visible web... and mis-implemented the feature to re-compile the regex to DFA (which re2 effectively lazily converts to NFA via memoization) for every single page load. The speed of the indexing sy…