IBTSOCS: I Bemoan The State Of Computer Science

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Are you bemoaning the state of computer science today? Tell us why!

I wrote "change state->status" in a git commit log. Through some combination of heroku and slack integration, the single > got HTML-escaped (&amp;amp;amp;amp;...) 79 times. IBTSOCS

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Posted by yoz 1450474821 seconds after the Unix Epoch (12/18/2015 at 4:40:21 p.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (503) PEBKAC (94)

Google forgot lifespans are a thing and let a certificate (for their mail services) expire. IBTSOCS

#94 |

Posted by leee 1429708216 seconds after the Unix Epoch (4/22/2015 at 9:10:16 a.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (441) PEBKAC (87)

I tried to post an ibtsocs story and discovered that apparently ibtsocs.com is using a varchar(255) for entries.

IBTSOCS.

#93 |

Posted by glasgall 1414895863 seconds after the Unix Epoch (11/1/2014 at 10:37:43 p.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (428) PEBKAC (98)

Driver support in Linux. IBTSOCS.

#92 |

Posted by leee 1412133126 seconds after the Unix Epoch (9/30/2014 at 11:12:06 p.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (405) PEBKAC (102)

Django gratuitously broke everything again. IBTSOCS.

#91 |

Posted by glasgall 1409193296 seconds after the Unix Epoch (8/27/2014 at 10:34:56 p.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (306) PEBKAC (182)

From the news today: "CVE-2014-0097 Spring Framework: empty passwords may bypass authentication."

IBTSOCS.

#90 |

Posted by glasgall 1395426046 seconds after the Unix Epoch (3/21/2014 at 2:20:46 p.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (158) PEBKAC (355)

It's 2014 and perforce not only defaults to ex-style diffs, but will only show ex-style diffs in p4v. IBTSOCS.

#89 |

Posted by glasgall 1391810452 seconds after the Unix Epoch (2/7/2014 at 5:00:52 p.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (93) PEBKAC (392)

It's 2014 and lots of mailers still default to Windows-1252. IBTSOCS.

#88 |

Posted by glasgall 1389372555 seconds after the Unix Epoch (1/10/2014 at 11:49:15 a.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (86) PEBKAC (393)

I still have to look up how to use openssl to generate a private key and CSR every time I have to do it. IBTSOCS.

#87 |

Posted by glasgall 1388428604 seconds after the Unix Epoch (12/30/2013 at 1:36:44 p.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (105) PEBKAC (367)

It's 2013 and the compiler I have to use for building something can't handle 64-bit inumbers on files. IBTSOCS.

#86 |

Posted by glasgall 1384621322 seconds after the Unix Epoch (11/16/2013 at 12:02:02 p.m.)

I agree, computer science sucks (77) PEBKAC (325)

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