Trying to fix a long standing problem (which exposes another problem etc…)
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How time feels when participating in a meeting with non-technical people
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When another company that develops an opensource project gets acquired
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Paying a visit to development after spending another whole day dealing with a silly product bug
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Mandatory operations manager study in order to be able to interact with other teams
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Our operations team when a customer is visiting the place
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When marketing announce to developers what they have sold
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When discussing raid and one mentions that more than two disks may fail
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When a person that works for Oracle is spotted in a devops gathering
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When you find a stackoverflow question about your problem and there is no response
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Spent 4 hours on a bug only to find it was a misspelled variable name
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Trying to push a merge conflict fix and receiving a merge conflict
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"Our engineers are working to fix the problem". In the meantime behind the scenes...
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Fix recommended by Security Researcher with no coding experience for vulnerabilities he found.
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When “security rockstars” start to drink at defcon and decide to pick on the noobs
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How I feel when I find out a squirrel caused an outage at the datacenter.
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Script kiddie tries to crack a system while the sysadmin’s logged in
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My newbie girfriend thinks she can put a keylogger in my Linux distribution
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when you discover that you’re not alone on the server you run metasploit from
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Upper management sees my proposed infosec budget for next year
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When they told me project managers could do security reviews based on a checklist
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That moment when you find out all developers know the root password
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My reaction when company’s security director enters his credentials into phishing link.
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When marketing promises something impossible to the client
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When I leave a doomed project just in time to work on a new one
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When a co-worker tells me that the answer of my question is on the intranet
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When I come in the morning and everyone asks me for help
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When I finally have to admit that I wrote something wrong
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When I try a random solution on someone’s code and it actually fixes the bug
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When I see the list of bugs from QA after a build release
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When the client tell us he wants to create a social network to compete with facebook
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When a new technology gets introduced and I’m the only expert
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When you have the solution of a big problem and you come into the boss’ office
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When the intern asks me a technical question in front of the boss, that I can’t answer
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When I let the intern do his first transactional operation alone
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When a bad rm command accidentally deletes production files
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What the client sees when I open the console in front of him
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When I open the folder that contains code from the intern
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When a client tries to click on our screenschots during a presentation
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When they tell me the website has to be supported by IE6
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When the boss is looking for someone to work on a complex and urgent debug
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The two sides of SaaS: Development vs What the world sees
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Waiting for indexing to finish for the site to come back up
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Customer changes specs a few days before project deadline
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When you read the new specs and they say to change the framework
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When that one cool python feature that you need is only available in python 3
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How people feel when CTO enforces dressing code for board meeting
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When the customer wants to add more features before the deadline
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When I accidentally show the wrong feature during a demo
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when the project manager asks if we fixed all reported bugs before the release
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switching frameworks just because a feature sounded cool
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When a colleague hands me his keyboard to help him fix a bug
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When the boss tells us there will be no end of year bonus
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Realizing what the boss is asking us to do is not a joke
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when a colleague claims that the new version of IE is better
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when the client reboots his server while I’m working on it
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when I try to understand the meaning of an Oracle error message
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When the new guy applied directly his modifications in production
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when the network falls down in the middle of the afternoon
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when I finally meet the guy who wrote the library I had to use for 2 years
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when I find a stupid bug on a big company’s website that gives me backend access
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when I try to use powershell after not using it for a few months
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when I am the only developer available to implement an important feature
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when I have to choose between quality code and just get the job done
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when your colleagues work on a new project, and you have to fix bugs on the old one
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when I see a controller class with more 1000 lines of code
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when I watch my collegue coding for the first time on emacs
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When asked to solve a bug of a software that we do not know
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Hearing that your project failed, then realizing it was someone else’s fault
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Gemalto Execs reading the news about them been hacked by GCHQ and NSA
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Replacing all the SSL certs again, for SHA-1 to SHA-2 migration
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When I visit a site that still uses tables for navigation
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Developers finding out about PM’s plans for the next release
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When major company claims they are secure and you already have a shell on the box.
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When the Project Manager asks to approve an implementation plan despite heavy security flaws
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Microsoft and Android teams watching the Apple Watch/Macbook Live
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12 hours later, hosting still don’t have CVE-2015-0235 in local mirrors
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2 pentesters, SE test, trying to blend in surreptitiously by the smokers’ door…
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How the security awareness person feels day-in and day-out
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The production server receiving a new and completely untested feature
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When people tell me PHP is not a real programming language
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When they tell me I have to use Wordpress to develop the website
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When a bug I found leads to an argument between 4 companies
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When I have no choice but to work directly on the production server
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When I hear the sales guy talking technical with our client
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When I tell a developer’s joke to a non-developers audience
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When the intern wants to show his skills to a senior developer
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When the customer thinks the mockup is the finished product
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When my boss offers me a free afternoon with “no strings attached”
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Running the data migration scripts on the live production on Friday
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CTO introduces me to the visiting investors during an outage
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