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This reads a bit like an article from "the daily wtf", I used to frequent that one often [0]. [0] https://thedailywtf.com/
I still have their mug! (Which my child consistently gives me shit for. "Dad, why we we have a cup with the F-word on it!?")
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I recommend to edit your post with an "update" so others don't have to dig to find this clarifying comment
HN locks out edits after a little while.
A couple of years ago, I lived in an apartment and made a doorbell repurposed from an Amazon Dash button. Basically I have a daemon that sends a message each time a button press is detected to my homebrew mqtt server. Then I have a bash script that runs on the raspberry pi board that has a speaker installed, something of this sort to play the doorbell chime: while [ true ]; do mosquitto_sub --exit-after-first-message…
SSHing to your doorbell to make it stop bothering your neighbor would be an awesome move
This reads a bit like an article from "the daily wtf", I used to frequent that one often [0]. [0] https://thedailywtf.com/
I still have their mug! (Which my child consistently gives me shit for. "Dad, why we we have a cup with the F-word on it!?")
Yes, son, the Future is the new F-word. And you'll be living in it. You're welcome.
I worked for a large retailer on their iPhone app and our test environments were terribly slow so we tended to do most of our development against production. This retailer is pretty old and had issued their own credit cards that didn't have any sort of checksum validation. This made making test orders easy because any sequence of numbers for that credit card type would let the "checkout" call succeed, and then the or…
They literally didn't have a Lunh check digit? Like, 1960s math? My gobs are smacked.
What’s that boast again, “move fast and break things” …
Breaking things isn't ideal, but it's not the worst. What's truly problematic is when everything appears to be functioning perfectly, while underlying issues go unnoticed—exactly the situation in this story.
It’s the same cavalier attitude taken by startups that treat user data and privacy as something to worry about later, someday.
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I worked on a large makeup website for a while, and it was common for us to place test orders and subsequently cancel them. The dev doing it usually put their name and the office address as the shipping address. One day, we got a big box of makeup at the office - turns out their warehouse had gotten so fast that in the time it took us to cancel the order they had already picked & shipped it. After that we put "TEST D…
One day, we got a big box of makeup at the office now that's a true end-to-end test.
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