Ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but for software development
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The fuck??? That's a horrible co-worker…
And this wasn't even his biggest disaster as long as you don't count the potential for death. The baseball-throwing gig was just him and his manager; for his next project he led a team of five developers that turned three months into three years and never produced working software. The only revenue it ever produced was an initial $50K from the client that was later refunded to preempt a lawsuit. For the project he chose Ruby-on-Rails despite the fact that neither he nor anybody else on the team - nor anybody else in the entire state for that matter - had any experience with RoR. I have to give him credit, though: he was a true Renaissance Man in the sense that he could fuck up a project in any language or platform.
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And this wasn't even his biggest disaster as long as you don't count the potential for death. The baseball-throwing gig was just him and his manager; for his next project he led a team of five developers that turned three months into three years and never produced working software. The only revenue it ever produced was an initial $50K from the client that was later refunded to preempt a lawsuit. For the project he chose Ruby-on-Rails despite the fact that neither he nor anybody else on the team - nor anybody else in the entire state for that matter - had any experience with RoR. I have to give him credit, though: he was a true Renaissance Man in the sense that he could fuck up a project in any language or platform.
Now, I don't have to be embarrased at the hobby project forks I make. Thanks!
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You fucking Donkey!
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Yes, but consider that the abbreviations alone would make the show unwatchable. "Hold on, babe, what's a SaaS?"
Could use subtitle style helpful info like in Alone
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You joke, but I've actually been responsible for a coder getting shown the door for running a coin miner on his work laptop.
In his defense, cyber security at that company was crap for a long time. After a ransomware outbreak, they started paying attention and brought some folks like myself in to start digging out. This guy missed the easy out of, "hey that's not mine!" The logs we had were spotty enough that we would have just nuked the laptop and moved on. But no, he had to fight us and insist that he should be allowed to run a coin miner on his work laptop. Management was not amused.
Am I just stupid or does that seem like an extreme reaction?
Apart from the ~0% profitability these days, what's the issue with running a coin miner? -
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Cute silly furry
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Still have a copy of Ubu 8.04 on CD somewhere.
Not sure if it still works though.Good times.
I wonder if there is a forgotten torrent of the ISO somewhere floating around with users still seeding it
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Someone would have to look at and understand the existing code and infrastructure rather than just throwing it all away and writing a data migration. In other words, it would never happen.
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It surprises me that there aren't more shows like that, just some random dude bursting through your job calling you all twats and pointing out where you failed, then helping you fix it.
I want carwash nightmares or retail nightmares shows.
Startup nightmares would either be cathartic or give me ptsd flashbacks.
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Am I just stupid or does that seem like an extreme reaction?
Apart from the ~0% profitability these days, what's the issue with running a coin miner?Analogous to someone using the company car to make some extra money as a uber/lift driver. Do you still not see the problem?
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This week I heard from a network group lead of a university hospital, that they have a similar issue. Some medical devices that come with control computers can't be upgraded, because they were only certified for medical use with the specific software they came with.
They just isolate those devices as much as possible on the network, not much else to do, when there is no official support and recertification for upgrading. And of course nobody wants to spend half a million on a new imaging device when the old one is still fine except for the OS of the control computer.
Sounds like a shitty place to be, I pity those guys.
That said, if you were talking about normal client computers then it's inexcusable.
It baffles me that medical device manufacturers use windows for fucking anything. You'd think just the licensing cost would push them away, but it being hot garbage for embedded software should have been enough. It's amazing any medical device certification process would allow them to use it at all, with the notorious unreliability and not giving a shit what you think about updates. People could die because of a fucking windows update at the wrong time.
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Silicon Valley
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Me and friends borked our school network by making it a doge coin miner in high school, the IT guy was not pleased.
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It's called incident response
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Am I just stupid or does that seem like an extreme reaction?
Apart from the ~0% profitability these days, what's the issue with running a coin miner?Besides the general security risk of they run trojaned clients, if they run it in the office they're spending the company's electricity
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I would watch this. Maybe something like "SRE Squad" with like a fire department type aesthetic and eagles and flags and butt rock theme song.
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Analogous to someone using the company car to make some extra money as a uber/lift driver. Do you still not see the problem?
Kinda, but not as a firable offense.
Using the company car for uber would raise the odometer, wear the tyres, use fuel, risk crashing, etc..As long as things are within thermal limits, it won't risk damaging the device.
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Am I just stupid or does that seem like an extreme reaction?
Apart from the ~0% profitability these days, what's the issue with running a coin miner?The first issue with running a coin miner is using company resources for your own profit. Your own system, using your own electricity, go for it. Running it on a company owned laptop, while at a company building, burning electricity the company is paying for. Ya, that starts to get uncomfortably close to fraud or theft. There is also that whole, "running unauthorized software on a company system, doing who knows what else in the background." There is a very real possibility that the coin miner has unknown vulnerabilities which could allow remote code execution; or, just outright be malicious and contain a remote access trojan. Maybe he was smart enough to audit all the code it was using and be very sure that's not the case. More likely, he just grabbed a random implementation of XMRIG, put his wallet in the config file and ran it. Either way, he also made a point of refusing to remove it, so we escalated up to management. With the recent ransomware outbreak having been in the multi-million dollar (possibly low tens of millions) damage range, refusing to remove unauthorized software went over about as well as a lead balloon. There may have been other factors at play; but, the unauthorized software and being a dick about removing it was what got him out the door.
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right? I don't watch TV because of all this crap. I don't understand how some people have the patience, honestly.
Our public TV has no midroll ads, only between programs, and I'm so happy I can use a guide and usually find something to watch when eating and get no ads. But I'm also watching the endless reruns of a series I like, so that's also not difficult to get.
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Someone would have to look at and understand the existing code and infrastructure rather than just throwing it all away and writing a data migration. In other words, it would never happen.
Op wrote software development, but the example is more infrastructure focused. Which is a lot easier to parse
