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lol

feel free to delete no issue in this on this page of the thread with a codeblock. Unless it is the use of multiple codeblocks in a thread?!

^ Was that the forum equivalent of adding "Here" print statements while trying to debug your code? 😄

>The music files you purchase from the Apple Music Store (AMS; formerly the iTunes Music Store) contain approximately 6 % of the digital equivalent of nothingness. I’m not referring to silence, but continuous blocks of empty space set aside inside the files. It serves no purpose other than to pad the files to make them 0,5 MB larger.

public class Order
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public int Quantity { get; set }
}

Somewhere in a PR....

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*deep sigh*

[Test]
public void DumbestFuckingTestOnEarth()
{
    var order = new Order 
    {
        Id = 7,
        Quantity = 100
    };

    Assert.Equal(order.Id, 7);
    Assert.Equal(order.Quantity, 100);
}

I assume that the class(es) that are using that new Order class already have their own unit tests? Did the code you modified to use an Order object not already have unit test coverage?

It looks like an issue with existing test coverage.

So are there tests that use the Order POCO or not? Apart from the pointless ones you list.

There's a point where caffeine can no longer help 😂

Ah, this is what you call job security. Write deliberately buggy or poorly optimised code for the initial release

Then in the weeks before your annual review you suddenly roll out a bunch of "improvements" and put down a 500% performance enhancement as your accomplishments for the year

I'm guessing since you're fixing someone else's code that strategy didn't work for them 😂

Was the company paying people to fix bugs per the Dilbert classic: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/k5hka0/bug_free_programs_a_dilbert_classic/

I worked as a 'code monkey' for most of my career, before landing a hands-on IT Project Leader for a big multinational in the mid-90s.

In the second week there, the IT Manager came in and plonked a bill from Eircom for £20,000IEP for a months worth of usage on an ISDN line we had linking our Dublin office to our Belfast office so they could run a terminal session to our IBM AS/400.

A week later, the Belfast office get a £17,000GBP bill from BT for the same ISDN line for the same period.

The link should be costing the company around £400 a month to operate, but suddenly it's now £40,000.

Just before I joined, the company had employed a small two-man Dublin based company to set up the ISDN network link between the two offices and the Netware file server in the Belfast office.

I contact the initial two man company who set up the link, but they're next to useless.

Coming from a coding background, I pull out the gigantic ring-binder manual for the Cisco router and get cracking. I also get hold of some packet sniffing software. It's all new to me and totally daunting.

Again, this is going to turn into a long IT war-story, so let me know if you want Part II.

Not a dated technology in the mid 90s when the poster was doing this.

I expect that both lines were dialling into America or some such, but it would be interesting to know if this was a code error or bad design.

Lol, got the timeline wrong 🤣 was wondering what a company was doing with such a line in modern times