r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TheJenkinsComic • Mar 29 '23 • 1

Poor seank Meme

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I have been seank. I hope he is able to laugh about it.

At least he got a coffee out of it.

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u/Czuponga Mar 29 '23

I once screwed up and redirected all of the push messages to my account. At least no one saw it, but the amount of notifications I got was horrendous

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u/jexmex Mar 29 '23

Man that had to be bad. One time early on in my learning I accidentally created a endless loop for email pushes. Needless to say, my email filled up so fast the host had to stop the email server and clear out the backlog. They were not happy. Thankfully it was just dev.

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u/Salanmander Mar 29 '23

At the college I went to there were mailing lists that you subscribed to by sending a correctly formatted email to a specific email address. So you would send

subscribe fishies-l

to subscribe to the mailing list "fishies-l".

You could also send a command to subscribe a different email address than the one you were sending to. So you could send

subscribe myOtherEmail@myServer.net fishies-l

to sign up your other email.

Occasionally someone would accidentally subscribe one mailing list to another, by trying to subscribe to two at once with

subscribe fishies-l cathodeTechnology-l

and then all the email that got sent to cathodeTechnology-l would be forwarded to fishies-l. This would quickly get caught and fixed, as all the fishies enjoyers were like "what are all these cathodes doing?".

There were also protections in place to make sure a mailing list couldn't be subscribed to itself. But there were no protections against circular subscriptions. One time two of the above mistakes happened in relatively quick succession, in opposite directions. As soon as the next email got sent, it started bouncing back and forth between the two mailing lists, and the server just gave up. And that one took out the school email for the entire college.

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u/Phyllis_Tine Mar 29 '23 edited Mar 29 '23

I read about an out of office notification someone set up in a big global firm, but also how it sent "received" messages and read messages (I think). In any case, there were something like 250,000 emails in a short span of time. I'm butchering the story, and will update with the real thing.

Edit: I think the person set up out of office replies to all incoming emails, but also got notifications when a sent email from him (as in OOO notifications) was received, triggering more OOO emails, and so on, in an infinite loop. And somehow it was set up for all employees at the firm, or reply all. Brutal.

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u/victori0us_secret Mar 29 '23

Happened once at Microsoft. Bedlam 3.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/surviving-bedlam3-email-storm-brought-down-microsoft-richard-bliss/

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u/goldfishpaws Mar 29 '23

gloriously rendered three characters at a time by LinkedIn

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u/victori0us_secret Mar 29 '23

Oh no! That's on me for taking the first source I found.

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u/goldfishpaws Mar 30 '23

Lol that's on LinkedIn for having fixed margins in flowing content

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u/CaptainNeedleMouse Mar 30 '23

Thankfully the link to the original blog near the beginning of the article is well rendered and worth the read anyway.

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u/goldfishpaws Mar 30 '23

Cheers

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u/snerp Mar 29 '23

A second case happened a few years ago when I was at an ms owned game studio. Some kind of error about forwarding from the employee store account went out to all of ms and everyone kept relying all for the lols. My inbox had tens of thousands of emails that day lol

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u/hongooi Mar 29 '23

There's also an account of a similar 1991 incident at Apple in the Unix-Haters Handbook (p.125 of 360, or page number 85 in the book itself). It's there as part of a generalised rant about the terribleness of the Unix email framework.

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u/canadajones68 Mar 30 '23

I was thinking about exactly this! That book is glorious, and more people should read it. Not 'cos modern Unix-like (GNU, mostly) tools are bad, but because it's a funny book and it illustrates how things used to be. Also, it shows examples of both good and bad software design.

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u/TheOneWhoPunchesFish Mar 30 '23

We should make a Wikipedia page or a website with a list of email storms

These are so fun to read!

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u/SalBBB Mar 30 '23

This was a good information. Thanks for sharing this is because I didn't actually read it. Don't have any idea about this

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u/Tossallthethings Mar 29 '23

Voip phones used to have a discovery port or some such thing, that if you plugged into the wrong port, it would port scan or notify the network. You could create a nice feedback loop and take down a whole office network in seconds. Figuring out it was a phone that did it is a hilariously good time.

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u/shw798 Mar 30 '23

This mostly happen this days. A lot of people experience in receiving and identified numbers and this always comes to our mind that is a scam

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u/jexmex Mar 29 '23

Haha. Dangerous command loophole.

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u/HerrSIME Mar 29 '23

The dumb thing is not that a mailing list can subscribe to another mailing list, it's that anyone can put any email on those lists. Only allowing users to put thier own email on a list is a quite obvious precaution.

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u/Salanmander Mar 29 '23

Oh yeah, for sure. It was definitely a "we gave everyone too many permissions" type mistake.

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u/DumbMuscle Mar 29 '23

We had a similar issue with a system for sending in-character emails in a roleplaying game. You'd get an email address for your character, for which the system would auto-redirect messages to whichever out of character email address you specified (and copy in the game runners).

So of course when someone set their redirect address to be their character's address, the thing went into an infinite loop the next time they got an email, and filled up the inboxes of all the game runners (oddly not the inbox of the person who actually caused the error) before being taken offline.

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u/hostchange Mar 29 '23

I did that too at my first NOC job back in the day...

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u/Derp_turnipton Mar 29 '23

I worked at a place with thousands of servers and some mail was directed to root. It wasn't aliased anywhere (good if it is) and it was practically never read or deleted

Also the mail was held on a filesystem where the max file size was 4 GB.

If the file got so large mail bounced it generated more mail about that and the mail queue got insane

That not being my job really but I had some code I ran regularly - I included in it renaming root's mail file if large and removing older versions.

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u/DaughterEarth ImportError: no module named 'sarcasm' Mar 29 '23

I trained a guy who structured the folders for a new server instance in such a way that it endlessly created new instances in sub folders when he ran the command. This was his 3rd time making them. Thank goodness he was on a test server cause he shut the whole thing down.

I also had a tester who deleted all user permissions in her test environment.

Neither of these scenarios are reproducible, I have no idea how they did it

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u/Rand_alThoor Mar 30 '23

r/JournalOfUnreproducibleResults

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u/fibojoly Mar 29 '23

Well, that's what dev is for. But yeah, been there, done that, was not happy about it either ;D

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u/L3tum Mar 29 '23

We were deploying stuff through the environments and everything checked out. It had a change in it that would be processing millions of datasets and generate emails to send to a special email address (yes, don't ask why).

Well, 5 minutes later we found out two things: One, the change made an infinite loop due to some state saving not working.

And two. We accidentally had a typo in the email address and were sending millions of emails a minute to a fairly large group. Needless to say, both the servers and the people were deeply unhappy.

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u/SteampunkBorg Mar 30 '23

At my first post college job one mailbox accidentally had the "print every incoming mail" setting enabled. There was no printer defined in the profile though, triggering an error message that got delivered to the user as an email. Which the server tried to print. Triggering another error message...

Several gigabytes of text only mails were generated within minutes.

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u/agnihotrimayank Mar 30 '23

Thankfully you find a solution to stop it. If it's not stop, i guess the one handling you would be very disappointed with you and you might lose your job as well

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u/Okonomiyaki_lover Mar 29 '23

Devs wanted to stress test push notifications but each user had to be unique. They didn't turn off registration emails. 80,000 emails and a couple hours later, auto test registrations are banned from generating emails.

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u/Versaiteis Mar 30 '23

Want to see me do Microsoft Bedlam?

Want to see me do it again?

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u/0100_0101 Mar 29 '23

At least you did not check in your personal contact information into the windows source code.

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u/RoboErectus Mar 29 '23

I, too, have tested in production

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u/Will-Intent Mar 30 '23

I took down a national travel data service at 6AM EST the day before Thanksgiving, don't AMA.

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u/nerdmania Mar 29 '23

I interpreted it as it was Sean K that did it on purpose to get a free coffee.

EDIT: I did not know the context when I posted this. It is: https://redd.it/124tawf

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u/BogdanPradatu Mar 29 '23

Thanks for the context. Kept wondering what this is all about.

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u/gulasch_hanuta Mar 29 '23

To the top!

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u/opulent_occamy Mar 29 '23

I once accidentally sent out an email blast to about ~2000 users informing them of my clients new website, with links to the demo, a few weeks before launch. Luckily the client was very understanding, but we ended up basically soft-launching the site early, that was a fun one...

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u/Konraden Mar 29 '23

if you sent an email afterward saying you goofed up I'd be pretty understanding. We've all deleted databases in production before.

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u/dub-dub-dub Mar 29 '23

Thank god he works for Starbucks and not Hawaii’s nuclear missile defense system!

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u/Airowird Mar 30 '23

And then they fired the one person on this planet that would never make that same mistake for the rest of their life!

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u/implicitpharmakoi Mar 29 '23

I have been seank. I hope he is able to laugh about it.

At least he got a coffee out of it.

We are all seank on this glorious day.

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u/Maximum_Photograph_6 Mar 29 '23

Je suis seank o7

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u/DopeBoogie Mar 29 '23

We are all seank on this glorious day.

Speak for yourself

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u/implicitpharmakoi Mar 29 '23

I am all seank on this glorious day!

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u/Affectionate-Fun7260 Mar 29 '23

I am feeling like seank today and am really appreciating these posts. Thanks seank- you’re not alone!

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u/XxTheUnloadedRPGxX Mar 30 '23

lets be honest, the amount of pr starbucks is getting from this seank is doing just fine

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u/very-polite-frog Mar 30 '23

He'll put "Interned at Starbucks where I deployed UX changes to production" on his linkedin profile

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u/all_of_the_lightss Mar 29 '23

Bosses need to learn to chill out.

Unless the job is literally saving lives (nuke codes, hospitals, food safety, etc) then no mistake is worth flipping shit over.

If people are going to have meltdowns over production incidents, then blame the people who manage permissions and backups before you project all of their anxiety on entry level staffers navigating the mess that is 80% of networks

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u/andrej_83 Mar 30 '23

He has the solution that everyone wants to have. He is the programmer but i think it's not always good to depend all of the things to him

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u/Daedalus_Mind Mar 29 '23

Context: https://redd.it/124tawf

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u/eppinizer Mar 29 '23

Thank you. I have been sitting here rereading the comic for five times trying to figure out what I was missing

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u/Regorek Mar 29 '23

I was out here wondering what "Seank" was slang for, and why I hadn't heard of it before now.

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u/bgaesop Mar 29 '23

Seank the Heghonk

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u/dishbin Mar 29 '23

Seank the heank

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u/GoatHoovesPi Mar 30 '23

Hands down the funniest comment ever. 💀

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u/eppinizer Mar 29 '23

Lol, at first I thought it was like a new word for Python. From Python into Snake into Seank. But then that didn't make any sense in context

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u/Fuzzybuzzy514 Mar 30 '23

Sean Kingston

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u/TheRavenSayeth Mar 29 '23

Whenever the joke here doesn’t make sense just assume it’s a cobol joke. That may not be true but it’s easier.

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u/absolutarin Mar 29 '23

Thank you.

I love inside jokes. Love to be a part of one someday

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u/MisplacedMartian Mar 29 '23

Hint: Go inside. Now all jokes are inside jokes!

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u/KKlear Mar 29 '23

That's some inside the box thinking!

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u/hugglesthemerciless Mar 29 '23

if you think about it every meme is basically an inside joke

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u/juggling-monkey Mar 29 '23

/r/unexpectedoffice

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u/Smallwater Mar 29 '23

And here I was, thinking this was a Bobby Tables joke

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u/General_Tomatillo484 Mar 29 '23

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/124tawf/starbucks_intern_hard_at_work

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u/Daedalus_Mind Mar 29 '23

Yes, that's the link.

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u/Wise-Cheesecake-238 Mar 29 '23

Why are they not allowing me to click this link?

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u/LagSlug Mar 29 '23

are you seank?

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u/Mostly__Relevant Mar 29 '23

I’m sure they can find out

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u/Daedalus_Mind Mar 30 '23

Starbucks is coming for you, seank...

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u/Heroic_Onion Mar 29 '23

I was getting so annoyed seeing the notification screenshot posted a thousand times, but this made me laugh more than it should have.

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u/SexyMuon Mar 29 '23

Sean K doing gods work out there

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u/GhostalMedia Mar 29 '23

Am I the only one who has been pronouncing seank like a fucked up version of “sneak?”

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u/chazzaward Mar 29 '23

I’ve been reading it as pronounced C-Ank, because I forgot the name sean exists

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u/xCreeperBombx Mar 29 '23

PULL THE LEVER CANK

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u/BesottedScot Mar 29 '23

Shawnk for me. Like shank with a w.

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u/AydonusG Mar 29 '23

I've been pronouncing it like Cartman saying sink during his Latino teacher days. "How do I fix this seank?!"

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u/hey_ulrich Mar 29 '23

Why? What's the limit? Who dared to set a limit for laughing about this?

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u/pekkhum Mar 29 '23

I had to do something like this once, but it was "we are supposed to be using fake data in test, who keeps sending [ridiculously famous person's] real social security number to the printer from dev?"

It took a bit, but I found them and murdered their data set.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '23

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u/pekkhum Mar 29 '23

My company went to great lengths to remove real socials and names from Dev. My boss then went behind their backs and bypassed it all. But, as you say, our laws don't actually hold companies accountable, so unless his boss gets mad, it won't change.

I usually can't even get our security team to care about massive impersonation and remote execution risks because "legacy is out of scope."

By legacy, they mean the system with all the PII, that processes every record and prints legal checks, has an active dev team of 8 people, 4 QAs and pushes new releases daily. It is literally the beating heart of the company and it is "out of scope" for security.

I need to go calm down for a bit. 😡

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u/no_talent_ass_clown Mar 29 '23

Get it in writing....

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u/KimmiG1 Mar 29 '23

It was not exactly uncommon for European devs to have access to prod data befor gdpr. Some even developed agains a copy of the prod database.

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u/bacondev Mar 29 '23

I was once a software developer who had read access to the production database that had names, addresses, SSNs, phone numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, etc. We had an auditor come in and I mentioned it to them. I left the company to focus on my education. I came back and the most sensitive information was thankfully unavailable. However, they keep daily backups on S3 and never change the password. So not like the change did a whole lot. No longer with that company.

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u/PM_ME_UR_COFFEE_CUPS Mar 30 '23

Certainly not in my company. Sensitive data is extremely locked down. Maybe in others but not mine for sure. Many times as a dev I didn’t even have read access to my own database in prod, only in case of emergency could I gain access.

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u/TeddyBearComputer Mar 29 '23

The difference is that the wild west existed more than data protection...

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u/fghjconner Mar 29 '23

If you run a service that has access to some piece of data, then some developer can almost certainly access it too. You can slap layers of encryption and protection on top, but someone has to have access to those as well.

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u/dkpatkar Mar 29 '23

I appreciate the fact that somebody created this art just for fun.

u/db2 Mar 29 '23

I wonder how many people have ordered today and put 'hello test1' as their name.

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u/Hyperpoly Mar 29 '23

seank bout to get a promotion.

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 29 '23

They really should give Seank a promotion and add a Seank product (I take giftcards Starbucks)

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u/ma-int Mar 29 '23

I just recently sent 80k customers an email with a wrong discount price in it. Whoopsie doodle, shit happens.

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u/big_boi_26 Mar 30 '23

How does the company handle that? Honor it? Send a redaction?

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u/snakefinn Mar 30 '23

I imagine the standard procedure is to pretend it never happened / quietly fix it

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u/ma-int Mar 30 '23

Yes. Usually we do not push customers noses into mistakes and let customer support handle those that reach out.

However in this case we did send an apology to those customers since the volume was so high.

We also did a post mortem and improved processes a bit.

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u/gordonv Mar 29 '23

seank should be a C level executive.

He/She/It is more well known than any other person at Starbucks.

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u/Suterusu_San Mar 29 '23

Your Executives can code in C? I'm almost sure ours don't even know how to code!

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u/gordonv Mar 29 '23

In all seriousness, I've met VPs who not only could code, but were actively coding for their job. This was in the financial industry. Top 4.

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u/Suterusu_San Mar 29 '23

Damn, for real? I've only ever seen it a few times, but they were long gone from their coding days, and it was generally in much smaller companies.

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u/kabrandon Mar 29 '23

The CEO of the company I work for actually co-authored the most widely used standard for email encryption using asymmetric cryptography. Highly technical leadership does exist and isn't a myth.

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u/GhostalMedia Mar 29 '23

Meanwhile, my company has some chiefs that never worked in the department, but now head up a line of business that they have no expertise in. Like having a car mechanic oversee a bunch of brain surgeons.

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u/diox8tony Mar 29 '23

mine was previously a coder. just does C(eo) stuff now.

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u/BobQuixote Mar 30 '23

VP is an overused, nigh meaningless, title in that environment, per my experience.

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u/ShitpostsAlot Mar 29 '23

I'm about 95% sure all my CEO knows how to do is drink and network. He's pretty good at his job, and things are pretty good for us as a result.

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u/Maximum_Photograph_6 Mar 29 '23

Your CEO is giving queen ant vibes. "We're just making sure they're fed, they're pretty good at that, so things are pretty good for us too"

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u/gordonv Mar 29 '23

And Ironically, It's today I see the name of Starbuck's CEO in a headline.

Howard Shultz.

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u/ranhalt Mar 29 '23

Starbuck’s

The company isn’t called Starbuck.

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u/sikuaqisnotslovenian Mar 30 '23

he she and it but where's they 😥

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u/Monoso22 Mar 30 '23

You could be so much more efficient and save so much time if you implemented the native gender neutral functions of the English language instead of covering multiple cases individually

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u/BobQuixote Mar 30 '23

native gender neutral functions of the English language

Honestly, that portion of the API sucks.

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u/Monoso22 Mar 30 '23

idk i thought it was straightforward enough when i learned it as a non-native speaker; if fellas from the 1600s could use it i dont see why not use it now

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u/BobQuixote Mar 30 '23

A crowd of married couples walked in, and each person gave me his coat.

If only 'it' had not somehow come to strip the subject of personhood, we would be fine.

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u/Monoso22 Mar 30 '23

'it' isn't the default gender-neutral pronoun, 'they' is

the use of 'they' as a pronoun for an individual person whose gender is unknown has been a part of the English language for many centuries now, and I assure you that you use the singular form of 'they' regularly and don't even realize it

>"Oh no, it appears someone left their umbrella"

is a basic example

the word 'you' is also a pronoun that can be used for a singular or a plural subject depending on the context

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u/BobQuixote Mar 30 '23

'it' isn't the default gender-neutral pronoun, 'they' is

Per the grammarians, that would be 'he' until relatively recently.

I assure you that you use the singular form of 'they' regularly and don't even realize it

I very much do. It sucks for different reasons than the other options, but it wins out for being the conventional solution.

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u/Monoso22 Mar 30 '23

actually, as far as I know, 'he' is only the default in some gendered languages (like Spanish, my native tongue). The use of 'they' as a singular pronoun has been documented for my centuries at this point, which is a well-known fact

here are two very easy-to-find sources: one and two

what is 'new', however, is the use of 'singular they' in the context of a nonbinary person (which isn't really 'new' either considering the presence of nonbinary people throughout history in different cultures (random example)). This doesn't take away from the fact that the word has been used as a gender-neutral for quite a while in English though

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u/BobQuixote Mar 30 '23

By the standard of "used," it appears to date to the 1300s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they .

Though some early-21st-century style guides described it as colloquial and less appropriate in formal writing, by 2020 most style guides accepted the singular they as a personal pronoun.

By referring to the grammarians, I was making a prescriptivist claim. Sometime in the last decade or two, 'they' became widely prescribed.

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u/invitelongbug Mar 29 '23

Found him https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/seankim-808

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 29 '23

I deadass thought he’s called Seank

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u/anaveragebuffoon Mar 29 '23

I've been pronouncing it seeyonk in my head until now

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u/klavin1 Mar 29 '23

Shawnk

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u/ShitpostsAlot Mar 29 '23

For anyone unfamiliar with the pronunciation of this, it's either 'seank' or 'shawnk' but very rarely, you'll meet someone who says it 'shaunk'

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 29 '23

You mean the British call him Shaun?

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 29 '23

Valid

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 29 '23

See -yoink-

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u/Orangutanion Mar 29 '23

[ʃeɪŋk]

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u/Gabcab Mar 29 '23

[ʃeɪŋk]

I think it's more of a [ʃɑŋk]

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u/Orangutanion Mar 29 '23

You're right, I was going out of my way to make it sound sillier

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 29 '23

That’s what I thought!

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u/deadbeef1a4 Mar 30 '23

[ʃɔŋk]

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u/Adorable_Wolf_8387 Mar 29 '23

No setp on Seank

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 29 '23

Yes.

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u/BeauteousMaximus Mar 30 '23

Like “chonk” but with a soft sh

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 30 '23

I wholeheartedly agree with your perspective

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u/moustachedelait Mar 29 '23

seank drinks sanka

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u/Skadoodle69 Mar 29 '23

The fuck‘s a sanka

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u/moustachedelait Mar 29 '23

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sanka+coffee&iax=images&ia=images

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u/GhostalMedia Mar 29 '23

This is the way. I refuse to not call him “sea-ink”

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u/ThatGamingKid45 Mar 30 '23

I keep reading it as “Sink” XD

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u/ZentriX21 Mar 29 '23

I don't get it, sorry

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u/BlazingBlastEZ Mar 29 '23

Recently all IOS users of the Starbucks app have gotten a notification "Hello test1 from seank" which has been posted nearly a hundred times on this subreddit

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '23

I saw another one earlier with the same message from a different app. Same seank

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u/NoNameRequiredxD Mar 29 '23

Some apps are paying their respects to seank since they're probably in some trouble

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u/SKT_Phoenix1 Mar 29 '23

There’s no way any reasonable company would get him in trouble. If an intern can send push notifications to the entire user base that reeks of a larger access control issue that SeanK brought to light.

I just hope Starbucks is reasonable

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u/_Diskreet_ Mar 29 '23

I hear they were super reasonable to some stores that tried to unionise.

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u/bacondev Mar 29 '23 edited Mar 30 '23

Here's the thing. For any given company, how it treats its white collar works differs from how it treats its blue collar workers. Unless it's Amazon.

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u/jsalsman Mar 30 '23

My friends with Amazon dev jobs have told me they're cushy, but I don't know about post-layoffs.

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u/bacondev Mar 30 '23

I've read countless times that it's a toxic work environment. For example, it's encouraged to rat people out for stupid shit. Unfortunately, my memory is fuzzy enough on this that I can't give a more specific example.

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u/apc0243 Mar 29 '23

Someone's gotta take the blame and it sure as hell ain't gonna be management!

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u/FerricDonkey Mar 30 '23

I mean, this doesn't require blame because nothing bad happened. The company can laugh it off, say "poor seank did an oopsies, we've changed it so he can't again and gave him the day off and a Starbucks gift card to calm down, aren't we nice, reasonable accommodating people". Then rack in praise and free advertising.

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u/fghjconner Mar 29 '23

Technically, we don't know he's an intern. Could be he's a senior level developer that demanded this level of access for some reason. Most likely though you're right.

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u/myflesh Mar 29 '23

Even more since it could be a great place for free advertisement. People are talking about this and sharing this.

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u/ShadedCosmos Mar 30 '23

Plot twist: seank is a senio developer

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u/jonerthan Mar 29 '23

I am an iOS user of the Starbucks app and I have not received any message from seank. I feel left out :(

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u/snapwillow Mar 29 '23

You're part of test2

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u/robbodagreat Mar 29 '23

Seank always advocated the use of feature flags

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u/RadlogLutar Mar 30 '23

Wait, you are that Florida ounce person right?

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u/Icy_Fruit97 Mar 30 '23

what are florida ounces?

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u/Kegman10 Mar 29 '23

Me neither, we might both have notifications turned off for the app.

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u/bobcat7781 Mar 29 '23

Oh. I thought the comic was just showing a sneaky way to get his coffee "delivered".

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u/handyandy63 Mar 29 '23

I got that part, but I don’t get how the scenario in this comic is supposed to have resulted in that message being sent.

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u/TheBlackCat13 Mar 29 '23

I think the idea is that the programmer was trying to find "Hello test1" by informing every starbucks user in the world that the order is ready.

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u/handyandy63 Mar 30 '23

Ahh okay thanks

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u/TheBlackCat13 Mar 29 '23

That makes more sense. I was assuming it was some sort of malicious SQL query joke.

u/LagSlug Mar 29 '23

Wait.. so that was real?

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u/Khyta Mar 29 '23

Yes

u/missingJackeD Mar 29 '23

This is pretty funny but still doesn't beat the guy who sent the Hawaii missile alert

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u/DrThrowawayToYou Mar 30 '23

https://giphy.com/gifs/emibob-ads-missile-warning-system-xULW8wq0KtPBfXPRpC

u/Alarming_Rutabaga Mar 29 '23

Shonk

u/MisterChimAlex Mar 29 '23

had something like this happen, cant talk much about it but...

We missed some "messages" to some customers, someone in the team gather all those customers emails, did a pythin script with a while loop to send them the missing messages...unfortunately they didnt code the break of the while correctly so we ended up sending thousands of messages to the same N customers... not good... they had to talk to some lawyers .

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u/AnonPenguins Mar 29 '23

while loop

...why?

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u/MisterChimAlex Mar 29 '23

I think it was not the final version, they were testing the process of sending the messages and how many “messages we could send in X time”, thats the reason for the initial infinite while, we had a mock cellphones so they made sure it worked and it received the messages, eventually i think they just switched to the real deal not realizing about the loop and just pointing to prod and changing the csv with the customer data.

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u/SirToadstool Mar 29 '23

What a legend

u/jawshoeaw Mar 30 '23

Was working in production Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software and my goto patient was Test, John. We gave him all kinds of fun stuff. Fast forward a year or so and I wanted to test something so I pulled him up. Got a warning this patient’s chart was flagged for auditing and that any access was logged and reviewed. Ok shrug. Then I see a note “this is a real person!” Oops. I guess someone had the last name “Test”

u/_arctic_inferno_ Mar 29 '23

You made my day, thank you :)

u/odraencoded Mar 29 '23

Plot twist: it's not sean k, it's Sea, North Korea. They were testing their nuke system.

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u/ClarenceLe Mar 30 '23

I like the implication that Starbucks is a NK's shadow company that can send specific messages to their Starbucks' undercover/sleeper agents.

u/pikadrew Mar 29 '23

Is there any chance that this was done to fill the news results for today with this story and not the story that they're currently getting grilled by Bernie Sanders about their aggressive union-busting practices?

u/soulofcure Mar 29 '23

lol, that's how Sean K gets beverages

u/CuriousPenguinSocks Mar 29 '23

I mean, it did send out a notification, you can work from there seank.

u/Far_King_Howl Mar 29 '23

He didn't do what I did yesterday which makes me wonder why I still have a job, so he gets a pass

u/rollincuberawhide Mar 29 '23

honestly if anything it was free marketing for starbucks. I'd give him a month of salary bonus.

u/EmotionalGuarantee47 Mar 29 '23

I wonder if his name is pronounced as shawnk.

u/Fluffaykitties Mar 30 '23

I don’t know why I didn’t realize it was “Sean K.”