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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 15 points 1 year ago

I feel like a hero in this particular case, it was a bug in a code that was written when I was still too young to even read. And no one knew how to run it. We didn't have access to the pipelines so no one knew how to build it and how to run it. It was a very obscure hybrid of C and PHP. I basically had to be the compiler, I went line by line through the whole codebase, searching for the code path that caused the error. Sounds easy enough, right? Just CTRL+click in your IDE. Wouldn't it be a shame if someone decided that function names should be constructed as a string using at least 20 levels of nesting where each layer adda something to the function name and then it's finally called. TL;DR it was a very shitty code.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What the fuck. I'm so appalled I had to leave this useless comment to digitally stare with an agape mouth.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

To be fair, they said I'll be dealing with legacy code from time to time during the interview.

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