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Old 03-29-2021, 09:58 PM   #389
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Originally Posted by soundman98 View Post
it's the software equivalent of making a square peg fit in a round hole. except you've got no idea it won't fit just by looking at it, and to trim things to size, you must go through 500+ lines of text in a code editor, line-by-line sometimes to find the spot that doesn't fit.

i like my physical hammers and chisels better.
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...then try to run it on hardware it was never really meant to run on using janky-AF OS and firmware/bios configurations, and then basically disable 1/4 of said library functions because certain mofos said you have to because it makes their job easy. Then you have to explain to the coder that "Works on my machine" doesn't field a system, which is significantly easier than telling the customer that the shit application they gave you to put in 2 weeks before they wanted the final product delivered not only doesn't work the way they said it would, but also breaks their own damn rules.
All this just to have some security schmuck say you have a buffer overflow which results in RCE. Then he expects you to be grateful for pointing it out, and asks for a bounty.
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