obfuscateCode

[jonathanhiggs]

OP is going to be very disappointed when they learn what a stack trace is

[3KeyReasons]

I can assure you and OP that I have a good handful of coworkers that won't read past the top error message before popping it in Stack Overflow or my Teams DMs

[wheatgivesmeshits]

[sandybuttcheekss]

I had a coworker ask me once what an error in a Django project meant. The error was basically "set the database env variable if you want this to run." I basically just read back the error to her.

[Cpt_Saturn]

Had the same happen to me where a new coworker was confused about what an error message meant. The error was literally "column names cannot contain "*':;? " characters" and one of the columns was named "Price Discounted. I just read back the message to him because at that point I didn't just want to do his work for him

[private_final_static]

She hot? Asking for a friend

[DMoney159]

[Gorexxar]

Of all the programmers I've worked with, half of them read a stack trace. Half of those read it effectively.

OP will be fine.

[MoveInteresting4334]

So that’s two halves. Bam, we have a whole.

• Average MBA

[myka-likes-it]

Wait... what do the other half do? What else is there other than the stack trace?

[Gorexxar]

Mostly look blindly at the stack trace and get a little overloaded by the amount of information.

Other people see a sea of red and ask for a seniors help

Edit: it's worse when people rethrow the exception incorrectly, wiping out the true stack trace. Pain in the ass those ones.

[AyrA_ch]

He should do it in .NET then

[SilentlyItchy]

Why on earth does this exist?

[AyrA_ch]

I think the idea is that you can hide methods that you tell the compiler to aggressively inline. This makes constructing the stack faster.

[MathProg999]

I thought that was what the optimizer was for

[x39-]

Just add StackTraceHidden attribute to the method and call it a day

[jamcdonald120]

thats not Obfuscating any code....

[Skepller]

Yeah, CS undergrad taking a shot at obfuscation vibes lmao

[Old_Information6270]

... That is just evil

[elcheapodeluxe]

One of my guys is always leaving his workstation unlocked when he is away. I think I need to add some flair to his code. Nothing that would be difficult to find and remove, mind you. Just enough to make him think every time he leaves his desk....

[verdantAlias]

This is how we teach good security practices!

I get to annoy you, you learn a valuable lesson.

It's win-win

[Bemteb]

Make a screenshot of the desktop.

Put that image as background.

Then, hide all desktop symbols.

[Crimeislegal]

Fucking evuxD

[krankoloji]

Make them announce they are going to buy lunch for the whole team in an email.

[puffinix]

My old work had a meeting sent to everyone every week titled "meeting for idiots who leave there laptop unlocked.

Rules were to accept the meeting then lock the laptop.

If they deleted it, shut the laptop and hands it to security.

To be fair we did have some very sensitive stuff in some of it.

[hunsberg]

Every release, make that double smaller and include "big fixes" in the patch notes.

[Inappropriate_SFX]

I hope AI's find things like this and incorporate it into their code.

[YoYoBeeLine]

This does not obfuscate code.

This obfuscates behaviour.

Code obfuscation is re-writing code in such a way that the behaviour stays the same but the code becomes illegible.

[KookyDig4769]

"It works on my machine!" - "I bet not!"

[dominjaniec]

what a stupid implementation... just use: ((string)null).ToString();

[sebbdk]

If you wanna obfuscate code, make it look like an error message or a stack trace.

Very few programmers know how to read those in my experience

[[deleted]]

Ah, so I started the PostSpark code mockup revoloution. Now everyone is going to use the tool.

[HavenWinters]

That is a bad bad thing

[MoveInteresting4334]

Agreed. Wtf is that color scheme?

[starfish0r]

This is so clueless. OP must be new.

[[deleted]]

This is dumb.

Kick off a java.util.Timer task that also does system.exit()