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What's your biggest screwup?
dane_doherty
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I once interned for a development shop that made web apps for some local governments. Often times there was nothing to do, so I got bored and started removing ORM statements that I thought were redundant. Fast forward a few years... well, turns out they weren't reduntant and caused most of their data to eventually get corrupted, along with all the backups they made over the years.
So yeah, that's my biggest screwup. How about you?
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One of my biggest...
Converting all the BTC ColoCrossing received from customer payments in 2014-2017 immediately into USD and deposit to our bank account.
I knew cryptocurrency was going to pop up, just didn't expect it so fast.
My whole life basically
Same here.
I also thought the ipad was stupid when Steve Jobs first told the world we needed one.
Ugh.
Man of culture
tell me that apple pencil is not stupid??!!
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Dropping out of school. Getting arrested at 17. Waiting until my 30's to go back to school and get certs. coasting in my 20's
Many many years ago, when I was getting acquainted with programming, I did not like GET and POST, because ONE method should be enough for everybody. So I missed the early years of web apps, didn't become a millionaire and didn't write Wordpress, Mantis or Mediawiki. Now it's too late, everything is already made up.
I didn’t check that the correct apparatus was present before I paid. You make the best of it, but you can’t help but be slightly disappointed.
Also, I took out a the website of a major global company by accidentally adding a reference to an include in the code of the include itself, so as so as soon I deployed the code…. death spiral.
Global company took itself down by not having a staging/pre-production environment and deploying live without verification
Nah, we had that, a quick check in pre-prod and it looked fine, because the server wasn't under any strain it didn't collapse quickly enough for me or the testers to spot the problem before I pushed the include code live.
When I was 18-20 and didn't save and invest money when I was in a good position. Spent so much money on fast food and games like WoW, and wasted a lot of time. If you're in your late teens or early 20s the best thing you can do is open a Roth IRA and try to max out the $6500~/year contribution limits, even if you just invest it in long term ETF's it is better than blowing the money or letting it sit in a checking account.
To be fair, they get offended if you ask if they have a pussy.
Currently in this position right now. My personal view is, I don't want to regret NOT doing something (e.g. starting a business) when I get old, which is why I spend money on stuff. Vacations, rent in a good place, eating out, servers for fun, etc...
At the same time, I did create a Roth IRA and maxed it out (perks of being a software engineer, I guess!), but I didn't end up saving much else.
Any advice?
As an operations intern, I released a virus into the company's social networking website.
Every friend who reads my virus message would automatically repost the same message on their wall.
Their friends would repost the same when they encounter this message.
It's 2009 when many websites have XSS vulnerability.
I inserted the virus as a regular user via the browser, not from the data center.
In other words, any regular user could do so.
I released similar virus on other websites too, such as one on a college social network that causes everyone to add me as friend.
Nobody could figure out why this weird message is going around, until they asked me and I told them how it works.
This was the only time I was brought into the General Manager's office, where I got a warning.
I'm told not to insert any more virus on the production site, but should do such things in the validation environment instead.
Aftermath:
The XSS was quickly fixed; despite that, the website shuts down a month later and the vendor was not paid.
I find myself in charge of checking common vulnerability on all the websites made by vendors before they go live.
That's a slap on the wrist. The other person who did exactly that was raided under the PATRIOT Act and got his internet privileges revoked for 2 years.
The website was still in beta at the time.
We had a worse vendor than Myspace.
There's no filtering whatsoever on the server side.
I only need to capture request with Fiddler and modify it to contain a
scripttag.This one doesn't spread though.
I included a
formin my forum posts that submits a friend request into a hidden iframe.The whole post content is in a
buttonWhoever touches anything on my post would submit the form to add me as friend.
Nobody ever asked me about that, but they quietly changed the endpoint to require CSRF token, after I had thousands of friends.
My biggest screw up is where im at today. The shit show keeps rolling ...
sudo rm -rf /*
Firmware update took the company server down for several days
Excellent! Glad to hear you're doing that. Keep fully funding that Roth as long as you can. Once your income reaches a certain point, you may need to do a "backdoor Roth" to allow you to keep contributing:
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/retirement/backdoor-roth-ira/
Your Roth contributions alone may not be enough for retirement.
If you haven't already, get involved as soon as possible in your employer's 401k plan. Most of them will match your contributions up to a certain amount, which is free money for the taking.
Even if you can't contribute much at first, just keep doing it. It snowballs quicker than you might think!
Ouch! That's something... It wasn't like that before
Was that on purpose?
I understand if someone removes everything in the home directory instead of /home/user/ accidentally.
Not that big but I formatted my hard drive that had 2TB+ of old software some I could not recover
And also me deleting my genuine windows license that arrived as an email when I was cleaning up my inbox. Rip 100$
They really should remove the virus releasing job. I've heard of "Government make-work" before, but that's too extreme.
I was told to test the website that is in beta.
As part of my test, I decided to see whether I can post JavaScript in the timeline just like I did on Renren previously.
That inadvertently became a virus.
That's some bad testing.
at least you get laid for once.
I haven't get laid and still a virgin.
Pursuing computing for education and job. Should have just studied medicine or law.