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Hmh, so the only issue here is that the boolean value is being negated. Which is clearly a bug, but not a WTF. So what?
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Bug + in production + due to bad logic - reasonable code review = WTF
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Even worse is that FILE_NOT_FOUND was not even considered...
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I'm assuming the two
&;tokens in there are just artifacts of borked HTML encoding and not part of the original code sample.Admin
I guess he wrote
&;where he meant just&.Admin
"No, I didn't write a unit test. It's such a simple function it doesn't need one."
Narrator: He did, indeed, need one.
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God I hate Ruby