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0 pointsboring_twenties5y ago0 comments

Well that's true for anything, so it means nothing. I know someone who was told with a straight face, in a meeting about an out of control memory leak in some software, "not leaking memory wasn't in the requirements."

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chosenbreed375y ago

LOL! That must have been some poker face! Unbelievable!

WrtCdEvrydy5y ago

I mean, they're not wrong, but I've handled that stupidity by making sure my next requirements included "Do not have sexual intercourse with your coworkers" and "Be a professional software engineer"

Edit: It's kinda like the story of the guy on the ship who was forced to write accurate logs and wrote "The captain was not drunk today"

aaomidi5y ago

And leaking memory is actually a valid tactic when you're writing software for financial systems that have scheduled times to turn off.

In various HFTFs GC is completely disabled since that valuable cpu time is useful for other things.

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