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Today's anonymous submitter works in finance. I'll let them start the introduction:
This is a legacy application that has been running for nearly a decade in production so one could say that it's been thoroughly tested by daily production use and nothing needs changing
This is a collection of two C# methods, and we'll start with ValueAGPFund, which isn't a WTF...
Lillith was integrating some new tools into an existing Ruby on Rails API. The existing API allowed you to send a dry_run flag along with the request, so that you could have the service calculate its changes without applying them.
The problem was, the new tool Lillith was integrating could send, in the body of the request, {"dry_run": false}, but the s...
This week we have got a couple of Mathanon's. Maybe they're the same person, maybe they're not, there's really no way to know!
Frist anon has a "Numeric fun fact" for us: "Got a form sent from work to express interest in some event. They actually enforced the validation that the answer must be a number, so I submitted "42"." Bravo.
Today's anonymous submitter has spent a long time toiling through many, many tickets. Their effort has been an attempt to "save" their employer from the disaster left behind by by a highly-paid consultant. As one does, our submitter started with the highest priority tickets with the highest severity. Eventually, they whittled down that list, and had some bandwidth to start lo...
There's a language out there called "Progress Advanced Business Language" (or "Open Edge Advanced Business Language"). Just hearing that string of words in a sequence tells you you're in for it. It's a verbose, "English-like" programming language. But we're not here to pick on the language.
A long time ago, Mirjam had the "pleasure" of working in a Pro...