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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by hawkice on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @07:21AM (#18344758)
Holy smokes I just had flashbacks to working at a place that tested things in production and ended up with a couple of these production-db IDs in the code. Shudders
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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:31AM (#18345475)
Your codebase only has a couple?
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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by hawkice on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:48PM (#18349856)
You're already hitting a database, you can add a column for whatever information you want. I've heard people are spooked by having too many columns, but more spooked than having essentially untestable production IDs in their code? No thanks.
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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by beobab on Thursday November 01, 2018 @06:36AM (#18352564)
I remember one place I worked, someone released code which only returned data permissions for the test user (id 5).
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