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I work in a company where that can happen. In fact we had just a case today. For the last 20 years, our ever growing C# monster application used across the worl
by xwolfi 4y ago
I work in a company where that can happen. In fact we had just a case today. For the last 20 years, our ever growing C# monster application used across the world to make millions, literally, had random crashes. Comes with volume spike, usage spike, we never quite knew: everything would display a red cross, the gdi handlers would reach 10k and bam.
For 19 year we just looked at it in defeat. For the last year, bit on and off. Starting last monday it crashed every morning for a user sitting next to me, a big nasty german boss (Im French).
I sat down, read his logs, saw it failed on ImageList creation again for some fucking reason, looked how many of these things we used and what they did. 2 hours later this 20 yo mystery bug dozens of devs had noped out of was fixed. We fully get it now. Wasnt even a matter of priority, it took 2 hours of looking at it. A lunch break basically.
I dont have a sort of morale of the story or whatnot, but well, Rockstar would have figured it out eventually. Just need a nasty fucker next to you whining abt it everyday.
- LegitShady 4y ago2 hours lunch are you guys hiring?
- xwolfi 4y agoYes, desperately even, but if you join just for the lunch break (where we fix bugs as you saw lol, I haven't eaten during a lunch break for the last few years), it's a bit of a red flag :p But seriously, look at tier-2 investment banks: we're nicer and less stressed than the Goldmans of the world but still make more money than most. And problems are interesting I find. But you need to like handling money and not "changing the world" in any shape or form.