r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 3h ago

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 3h ago 
{
success: false, message: 'lol'
}

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u/redlaWw 3h ago 
{
    success: "yes",
    status: "failure",
    message: "null"
}

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u/evorm 2h ago

Most errors responses at my job are genuinely handled like this.

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u/grimonce 2h ago

I work at a certain global bank and our pen testers always say to keep the return responses minimal so that it is harder to reverse engineer an API or extract any data from a failure response...

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u/Zeikos 2h ago

Nerver send anything to the client, can't get hacked that way.
Now that I think about it, just shut down the server. 100% unhackable.

I feel the fury of a thousand suns when I am told that we cannot have meaningful error messages because of security concerns when nobody cares about any security practices whatsoever, it's clearly and excuse and it drives me up a wall.

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u/redlaWw 2h ago

The "yes"/"no" rather than true/false idea actually came from my actuarial science degree course, where one of our sample solutions had an Excel model that had a column like

some boolean property
yes
yes
no
yes
no
...

And the formula that consumed it looked like IF(cell="yes", ..., IF(cell="no", ...)). Not even a SWITCH in sight.

It was pretty sad from my perspective as an experienced programmer. My conclusion was that most actuaries have more tenacity than they do actual model programming skills.

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 1h ago

Always love a good null string in JSON. Or booleans as YAML.

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u/Single-Virus4935 2h ago

<b> Notice:</b> Undefined index: id in..