Thinking about the time when another dev on the same project didn't understand what a static field was and tried to use one for an online shopping cart in an ASPNET app as an Application level var. Then he was actually surprised when everyone's stuff kept getting tangled into one cart. 🤦‍♀️ - ThreadSky

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rachelappel.bsky.social • 46 days ago

Thinking about the time when another dev on the same project didn't understand what a static field was and tried to use one for an online shopping cart in an ASPNET app as an Application level var. Then he was actually surprised when everyone's stuff kept getting tangled into one cart. 🤦‍♀️

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darcylussier.bsky.social•46 days ago

Did he get…Bounced outta there? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #StaticJoke

rachelappel.bsky.social•46 days ago

D'arcy.

hyr.mn•46 days ago

Long ago, a dev wrote an aspnet app that would crash IIS when it served two concurrent users. The team added in error logging and patched around things to get it to work.

He was told not to touch the code after he kept reverting changes.

hyr.mn•46 days ago

He then cracked another dev's account to push a change that removed all error handling and logging. Because "an app as beautiful as this shouldn't be made ugly with such things"

I started after he was let go. My last big gift to the team was to rewrite it from 100k lines to 17k lines.

rachelappel.bsky.social•46 days ago

Omg this sounds exactly like the person I'm talking about. I think he said nearly those identical words once. Where do they come up with such ideas?

tommx.bsky.social•46 days ago

I once was asked by a fellow developer how to convert an integer into a string in C#. My response was "You're joking, right?" She theoretically had a Masters in CS.

rachelappel.bsky.social•46 days ago

I've to explain that to multiple people, some with computing degrees, along with other greats like "Why should I use a function?" and "Why isn't this constant changing its value?"

timpurdum.bsky.social•46 days ago

Switching between client apps and server apps, I'm always paranoid I'll make this mistake. More than once I've caught myself thinking it would be a good idea before remembering that everyone uses the same global env.

devlead.se•46 days ago

But he saved loads of memory allocations...😎

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