Today I encountered the phrase "I wired the router to be connected to the main light switch. So when nobody's in the office, it's impossible to hack in!"
Oh, no, that dude wasn't a software engineer. He was just painful. And I figured you'd understand.
The software engineer was the guy who went *out of his way* to do the thing that Microsoft's knowledge base says is not just unsupported but insecure and *bloody fucking crazy*. And demonstrate it to the execs with the web server running as a logged-in Administrator on his XP desktop, and then have them come to me saying "Software Engineer promised us that he could make this work in production last week. this is the first you're hearing of it, so why didn't you make it work already?"
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Date: 2009-05-30 02:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-30 03:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-30 03:59 am (UTC)No really.
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Date: 2009-05-30 04:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-30 04:15 am (UTC)The software engineer was the guy who went *out of his way* to do the thing that Microsoft's knowledge base says is not just unsupported but insecure and *bloody fucking crazy*. And demonstrate it to the execs with the web server running as a logged-in Administrator on his XP desktop, and then have them come to me saying "Software Engineer promised us that he could make this work in production last week. this is the first you're hearing of it, so why didn't you make it work already?"
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Date: 2009-05-30 05:34 am (UTC)Your software engineer sounds self-taught, and self-taught stupidly. But then, he's doing Windows work, so it shouldn't shock us.
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Date: 2009-05-30 07:31 pm (UTC)wouldn't it be great if the two could be combined somehow?
Date: 2009-05-30 09:23 am (UTC)