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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

I thought testing 2s complement was a common thing. That's like your second year cs class

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

To be fair, the team at the time was all business majors. (Is "Computer Information Systems" what they call that degree most places or just at my alma mater?) I think I was the only computer science major there.

They'd done a surprisingly admirable job of cobbling together a working e-commerce, loss prevention, customer sercvice portal, orderfulfillment, and CMS suite. And their schooling was in, like, finance, MS Office, and maybe one semester on actual programming.

None of them had ever learned how to count in binary. Let alone been exposed to 2's compliment. And there were no QA engineers.

Oh, there was the sysadmin. He had a temper and was a cowboy. If you asked him to do something, it'd be fuckin' done, man. But you did not want to know how he made sausage. The boss asked him to set up a way for us to do code reviews and he installed Atlassian Fisheye/Crucible on a laptop under his desk. We used that for years. And a lot of the business logic of the customer-facing e-commerce site lived in the rewrite rules in the Apache config that only he had access to and no one else could decipher if they did have access.

Those were good times. Good times.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

My school also had a major called “Computer Information Systems”. That was in the 90s. Do they still even offer that? Last I checked I didn’t see my school still offering that.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah it's still pretty popular actually. Maybe because people want to do more business side or less coding and math

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know a french degree that I would translate to Computer Information System in English but there is waay more computer science in it that what you described... I'm so glad I didn't live thought the hardship of international studies!

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