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

Post by rawoke083600 » Fri, May 06, 2022, 7:08 AM UTC

jiggawatts wrote: post #175

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.

Conversely I would prefer to work in a place like that. Professionalism at scale isn’t achievable by tolerating idiotic behaviour and being nice to everyone no matter how dangerously stupid they are being. There is a point where someone has to put their foot down and demand things be done properly, otherwise the inevitable consequence is a giant mess leading to disaster. You might be used to small startup teams with…

Post by greggsy » Fri, May 06, 2022, 7:12 AM UTC

kklisura wrote: post #55

``` TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'C') at Ccf ( https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/js/157553674-... ) at Bcf ( https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/js/157553674-... ) ``` Has something to do with grammar. The document does not fail when `Show grammar suggestion` is turned off.

Post by bobbieie » Fri, May 06, 2022, 7:17 AM UTC

KMag wrote: post #213

quakeguy wrote: post #204

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What a great story nevertheless.

It helped me empathize with young engineers dealing with their first high responsibility bug. About 4 years ago, I was managing a guy right out of school who pushed a minor bug that broke real-time risk calculations for a major multinational financial institution in the middle of the European trading day, prior to the NYC open, and people were yelling over email that they were trading blind. Someone had committed an…

Post by omnicognate » Fri, May 06, 2022, 7:20 AM UTC

astrange wrote: post #262

rob74 wrote: post #212

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How about "Whereas", "Insofaras", "Notwithstanding", "Thetruthofthematter", or "Despiteallobjections"? Didn't try them, but these were "reserved words" in Go (actually an easter egg) until 2017 ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489803/notwithstanding-... ).

This is the strangest parsing fact I've learned since PHP having a token named T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM. (Because the parser was developed in Israel.) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/592322/php-expects-t-paa...

Post by karlding » Fri, May 06, 2022, 7:23 AM UTC

joseda-hg wrote: post #248

technothrasher wrote: post #59

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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…

I seem to remember that a few years ago some versions of either TouchWiz or Android, that you could overflow into unlocking the phone. The number required was pretty high, but you could get to it by copy pasting an already typed (In the emergeny dialer) number for a while, crashing the lockscreen until the next reset