robocall@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 7 months agoHas this ever happened to you?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down131
arrow-up11.02Karrow-down1imageHas this ever happened to you?lemmy.worldrobocall@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 7 months agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-squareAa!@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up86·7 months agoNot quite this, but I did have a validation team that didn’t know when to quit. The project was a Windows service, and they would be constantly opening bugs saying “program crashes when we deleted xxxxx.dll” Like… Yeah. If you delete necessary libraries from the installation directory, the program won’t run correctly.
minus-squarezarkanian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up25·7 months agoThat should be elementary computer literacy: if you don’t know what the file does, then don’t delete it.
minus-squareXatolos@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·7 months ago“I didn’t know what it was, how was I supposed to know not to delete it?”
Not quite this, but I did have a validation team that didn’t know when to quit.
The project was a Windows service, and they would be constantly opening bugs saying “program crashes when we deleted xxxxx.dll”
Like… Yeah. If you delete necessary libraries from the installation directory, the program won’t run correctly.
That should be elementary computer literacy: if you don’t know what the file does, then don’t delete it.
“I didn’t know what it was, how was I supposed to know not to delete it?”
But that’s how you learn!