Recovering a database from a backup is often possible but often a pain in the ass, and depending on the application you may not consider it acceptable to lose a day of data

that's assuming they tested the backup system

When I sat down today I thought I was just going to be updating some properties file with oauth end points.

This is so blatantly stupid that I now have to pick through the code base and write up a change request and incident avoidance report 😕

Actually, this code is also used in their side business manufacturing cattle prods, that line must be excluded from the prods or else they may become sentient and form a cattle prod based skynet.

Only thing better is finding commented out code below that which would actually prevent it from running in Prod. Bonus if there's a code comment next to it saying "disabled per email" with no further explanation.

I'm stealing this. This is a fantastic way to say a comment was good.

^C^C^C^C^C^C

Heh. That looks like it has decent odds of being a "company ending event" incident, to be specific.

But at least there's lots of comments. And maybe someone already put a safety net in somewhere else and just forgot to update the 20 comments. It could happen.

That would be silly. Why pay for QA staff when we can spend customer good-will instead?

Edit: Sorry, I've worked with this kind of stupid so long, I can hear the logic in my bones. The only target that matters is this upcoming quarterly report. The quarterly report after that happens to future me, and he's never done anything for me.