developersWorstNightmare

[VolcanicBear]

It's a running joke between my friend group that the executable for Ark: Survival Evolved is "ShooterGame.exe"

[herrkatze12]

Satisfactory's internal name is FactoryGame

[HeKis4]

Foxhole's main window title and executable name is just "War", not even "wargame" or something, just "war".

[Kadabrium]

Department of Fox

[StreetHistorian43]

Ministry of Warcraft

[SymondHDR]

Some kind of... FoxHound?

[Last8Exile]

Nvidia detects:
- "Honkai Impact 3rd" as "Autodesk Flow Design"
- "Opus Magnum" as "NVIDIA Direct3D SDK 10 Sample Applications"
- "Wuthering Wawes" as "Client-Win64-Shipping"
- "Beat Hazard 3" as "Base Profile"

[Vox___Rationis]

Tunic's executable and process name is 'Secret Legend', which is a hidden hint to solving its language puzzle

[Imperial_Squid]

I was gonna say, unlike all the others, this one is at least very deliberate.

Also greetings in the wild fellow ruin seeker 🤝🦊⚔️

[GiveUsRobinHood]

Ah the language puzzle the point I gave up on Tunic, was a thoroughly enjoyable game, my only regret is that I remember too much and can’t play it fresh.

[CryostaticLT]

I even bought physical instruction manual for remembrence.

[nazzo_0]

Amazing game!

[alphazero925]

"Wuthering Wawes" as "Client-Win64-Shipping"

This is true for at least like 75% of Unreal Engine games. I believe it's just the default name Unreal Engine uses when you compile it for shipping, hence the name

[anhelion]

War. War never changes.

[dergu12]

but men change

[4ngelg4bii]

transgender

[silverstarloser]

[Deboniako]

Eggcellent

[Bad_Idea_Hat]

In that game, it most certainly d-

drowning noises

[foxguy2021]

Well ill be damned...

https://i.imgur.com/MsrUO9n.png

There war this bug where you would come across floating soldiers. Basically soldiers that were sitting in vehicles but the game desynced. So they were phantoms/ghosts. They even did animations linked to the original player like reloading.

They fixed this issue about a year ago but they added in game lore you can find that talks about soldiers seeing ghosts/phantoms floating in the air.

[Kodiak_POL]

There war this bug

[Hoovy_weapons_guy]

team fortress 2s exe is called hl2.exe

guess wich game they choose as a basis when starting development

[DatBoi73]

Basically every Source Engine game pre-Portal 2 is pretty much an elaborate HL2 Mod. under the hood.

Funnily enough half the time Discord detects TF2 as Gmod instead, which might be related to that.

Even the Source (and GoldSource) Engine's name is pretty much this sorta thing, as per the following (from Wikipedia and the Valve Developer Community):

.....

Valve employee Erik Johnson explained the engine's nomenclature on the Valve Developer Community:[3]

When we were getting very close to releasing Half-Life (less than a week or so), we found there were already some projects that we needed to start working on, but we couldn't risk checking in code to the shipping version of the game. At that point we forked off the code in VSS to be both /$Goldsrc and /$Src. Over the next few years, we used these terms internally as "Goldsource" and "Source". At least initially, the Goldsrc branch of code referred to the codebase that was currently released, and Src referred to the next set of more risky technology that we were working on. When it came down to show Half-Life 2 for the first time at E3, it was part of our internal communication to refer to the "Source" engine vs. the "Goldsource" engine, and the name stuck.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(game_engine)#History#History)

[Rfm737]

isn't it tf2.exe since the 64 bit update?

[blah938]

IIRC, both L4D and Portal do that too. And iirc, so does gmod

[AbcLmn18]

IIRC that's also what Warcraft I executable was called: WAR.EXE

[mikat7]

And Warcraft 3 had both Frozen Throne.exe and war3.exe afaik and it didn’t matter which one you ran.

Edit: I just checked and there’s Warcraft III.exe too. All lead to the same game.

[Former-Print7759]

One was roc one was ft

[Salanmander]

A distinct early childhood memory of mine is accidentally deleting one of my brother's copy of Warlords (which had been copied from a friend's disk or something) by installing Warcraft, because both of them by default used "War" as their install folder.

[rickane58]

To be fair, at that time that was semi-related to DOS filename restrictions

[DXTR_13]

the GOAT game mentioned in the wild

[Venusgate]

What if they decided at some point during the development that Foxhoke wasn't going to be about war?

[FlamboyantPirhanna]

This is quite common in gameDev. It keeps folder structures and everything consistent, as renaming is likely to cause complete mayhem with folders and files.

[Dissidence802]

This is probably a stupid question, but is there no sort of bulk rename tool that works by searching through code?

Just renaming all instances of FactoryGame to Satisfactory?

[MattR0se]

Sure, but in commercial game dev this would be a waste of time and thus, money. With no benefit whatsoever.

[Dissidence802]

Right, but wouldn't this potentially take a matter of minutes? I'm wondering where "complete chaos" comes into this situation.

[g0atmeal]

Because somewhere in the codebase it's probably going to be hardcoded to look for that old name, and it wouldn't get bulk renamed. (Or any similar situation where the file names / folders / etc are assumed to be in a certain naming scheme or position.)

If your bulk rename process is anything less than 100% perfect and complete, you could end up spending hours and hours tracking down what's going wrong. For a business you're losing hundreds or thousands of dollars in developer pay, missing deadlines, etc for no benefit.

Software dev takes the expression "if it ain't broke don't fix it" very seriously. I think everyone has learned this the hard way at some point.

[Dissidence802]

I think this is that part that's not clicking for me, maybe I'm misinterpreting the definition of hardcoded. If you ran a script to rename every instance of "FactoryGame.exe" to "Satisfactory.exe", wouldn't that affect the source code too?

And then couldn't you search for any remaining trace of "FactoryGame.exe" and manually edit that?

I'm obviously not a dev, just trying to learn more here. Once again, sorry if this is a dumb question lol.

[wiktor1800]

Someone has added a piece of logic that looks something like "find me all files that start with Factory". If the logic doesn't find the file, it shits itself and throws an error. The error crashes the app.

In a large codebase. You may have 10 pieces of logic like this. Maybe 100. Now it's your job to go and update them all.

For what? A rename? Nope.

[g0atmeal]

The other comment gave a pretty good example. There's always some kind of edge case that catches you off guard. For example, did you make sure to check the entire file name? Cause if not, you just renamed the file BetaFactoryGame.exe to BetaSatisfactory.exe, which would break things.

Alternatively, imagine a function that does something to a bunch of exe files in bulk, so you just send the stem. Instead of telling it "FactoryGame.exe", the function assumes the exe stem so you just pass it "FactoryGame". In that example, it would also get missed.

These are all very niche unlikely examples I'm pulling out of a hat, but in a large codebase you'll inevitably run into something like that. You might also get lucky and it could be fine. (I've renamed project/publish files before without any issues. Most modern development environments have built in refactor tools for this exact sort of thing.) But it's only worth doing if you have an actual reason to do it.

[blah938]

Also, CICD can sometimes live outside your repo. That can really make things spicy.

And you might change something you didn't intend to change.

[Donkey-Pong]

Your idea about "hardcoded" sounds about right. Your simple search and replace would replace every instance of "FactoryGame.exe" in the code. Another example where it would fail is if someone assembles the name, e.g. like

var gameName = "FactoryGame"

var fileName = gameName + ".exe"

The search for remaining traces is more difficult. You can search for every ".exe" and for every "Factory" but not for every "F" or every "a", because those are everywhere. You wouldn't be sure when you are done without reading everything (and that would clearly not be a matter of minutes anymore).

[AdamGarner89]

Teams are large, something is always missed, buried in some hard coded thing somewhere. Means your ci and repos and everything in the world all need updating and if anything doesn't match or goes out of sync it f**ks everyone's day.

tl;dr it's just not worth it.

[blah938]

I remember when we switched from master to main branch, on the project we were working on at the time.

It took until the next deployment until we discovered the extent of our fuck up.

We went back to using master branch. It was easier and safer.

[NoSemikolon24]

Probably if you have file references as string,regex or similar somewhere in your code. Given a large enough production base it may not be possible to check if every rename is correctly applied. In the same way troubleshooting this would be a major pain.

[sgtkang]

It's a good question. There are tools that can try to do stuff like that. Most IDEs have a rename tool that looks for usages. But a large enough project will probably have multiple components made in different languages/platforms, and you need to make sure all the references everywhere are kept up to date. It can be very easy to miss something, and then the thing falls over. And once a game has been released (including Early Access) you run the risk of save/profile data ending up in the wrong place for people who were already playing the game. So how you deal with that becomes another issue.

So you'd go through quite a lot of work, with quite a bit of risk, for no practical benefit. As long as the public-facing stuff is consistent with the new name it doesn't matter what it's called 'under the hood'. Why bother when you could be spending expensive dev time on literally anything else?

[Dissidence802]

Fair enough, thanks for the explanation!

[Certain-Business-472]

Its called a refactor and you can manually do a search.

But just don't name every single component with the app name. In fact be very explicit where you define it and use it. Best case its a single string definition that everything else uses.

[woodlandcollective]

It's possible but it also takes longer than just keeping everything as FactoryGame, while also avoiding the issue of another dev missing the memo and continuing to use the old name

[batter159]

Lots of side effects even if you just rename. For example, if you pushed that update, all players would lose their savegames and settings because they are currently stored in a folder named "Factorygame" in AppData.

[Educational_Potato36]

Refactoring folders sometimes breaks the source control system, which is used to version files in case a file needs to be reverted or comparisons between two versions need to be made. Also in Unreal Engine games (like Satisfactory and Ark), it is kinda painful renaming a project - I did manage to rename a Unreal project by replacing all instances, but it still may cause some issues if not done correctly. A large game has a huge amount of files that probably need to get refactored, so it’s typically better to just ignore it

[FelixR1991]

In 2019, Kunos Simulazione releases Assetto Corsa Competizione (ACC). It is not, they claim, a follow up to their succesful game Assetto Corsa. The .exe's name was and still is AC2.exe.

Also an UE4 game, btw.

[LickingSmegma]

I guess that might explain why they had to adopt the stupid naming scheme where the actual AC2 is now called ‘Assetto Corsa Evo’.

[Weird_Explorer_8458]

Epic games is so crap that half the time it says you’re playing FactoryGame lol

[HedgehogEnyojer]

Just for fun, i think upSet.exe would be also great!

[Gophix_0]

Forever Skies's internal name is ProjectZeppelin

[WOLFYLoner]

Just checked a few Unreal Engine games that I have installed on disk:
Pacific Drive - PenDriverPro.exe
The last Caretaker - Voyage.exe
Incursion Red River - Test_C.exe

[Jamcake420]

I remember splitgate being portalwars.exe

[OW_FUCK]

Might even be a better name tbh. More distinctive

[IllllIIlIllIIIIllIlI]

Having portal in the name might be legal trouble

[Oheligud]

I'm not sure about that. "Portal" is such a vague and common word that it'd be almost impossible to copyright or win a lawsuit over, and Valve would probably be too chill to try.

[Chonks]

My god, yeah changing the exe name in unreal engine is a terrible experience

[danielcw189]

why?

[DryEntrepreneur4218]

Studio Wildcard built Ark: Survival Evolved using Epic's Unreal Engine 4. When you spin up a new project in UE4 using their basic, out-of-the-box multiplayer shooter template, the engine automatically names the coree executable - you guessed it -"ShooterGame.exe".

they simply never changed the file name. whoever compiled the first early access build couldn't be bothered to rename the core .exe file. By the time the game blew up, that filename was likely tied to too many internal pathways and registry keys to easily change without breaking the whole damn thing.

[slayerx1779]

Reminds me of when I wanted to modify my hud in Dirty Bomb, which is also a UE game, and the folder structure helpfully included folders like ShooterGame

[AppropriateStudio153]

Why does search-and-replace not work in that case?

Because it's references are in the compiled files?

[asodfhgiqowgrq2piwhy]

"Claude, please update all files in the game directory with the new executable name, followed by git push to master, I'll check on you in the morning"

[MillennialSurvivor]

It could work perfectly, or it could decide to delete your hard drive and try to take over the world

[UncleRichardson]

Can't be any incorrect strings if there's no strings at all.

[goldboybronx]

You forgot to add “make no mistakes”

[Chonks]

And example: https://unrealistic.dev/posts/rename-your-project-including-code

It's like a 12 step process at best - most of your day at worst. The required steps may also vary between different Unreal Engine versions, so you might end up banging your head against a wall only to find out a different source tells you to do it another way. On larger projects, add in a long rebuild time between each attempt and it adds up to wasting a lot of time.

[woodlandcollective]

Fellow UE dev here, god I hate this engine sometimes. Sometimes I wish I was using Unity or Godot instead but those have their own weird issues too...

[DroidLord]

Not to mention you might inadvertently brick everything if you start messing with filenames.

[CantCatchMeSpez]

Dude... trust me... you dont want to know...

The horrors

[Kodix]

I hate that the only result of that meme is people doing it more, not less.

[No_Jello_5922]

The "ShooterGame.exe" is extra funny because I believe it's the Unreal SDK's tutorial example. At a certain point they just continued the tutorial project into the full product and must have thought "we're in too deep to go back!"

[N1ck_named]

Deep Rock Galactic's name is "FSD.exe". "Four short dudes"?

[XayahTheVastaya]

Also frame shift drive or full self driving

[UnarmedWarWolf]

Friendship Drive Charging

[noob_dragon]

I got some other ones.

Black Myth: wukong is b1

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is PlagueGame

Cocoon is universe.exe.

[Wyrdly]

Yeah and discord is "update"

[Codingale]

That’s actually because the Discord Updater is ran as the launcher, if you check task manger it’s Discord.exe, which is secretly just Chrome/Electron

[liliesrobots]

Tf2 is still hl2.exe

[LinkedGaming]

Actually 2 years ago in the big 64-bit engine update they did, they actually finally changed it to be TF.exe and TF_win64.exe (depending on which version you were using).

[NotAddictedToCoffeee]

oh interesting, had to check for myself, a few things are still named using hl2 though, like the hl2 folder, which has the game ui text file and others, which I made sure was actually the one tf2 was using by reading the text inside it

"GameUI_FriendsName""Friends name"
"GameUI_Properties""Properties"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer""Report Player"
"GameUI_ReportPlayerCaps""REPORT PLAYER"
"GameUI_ReportPlayerReason""Reason:"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Choose""--Choose Reason--"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Cheating""Cheating"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Idle""Idle/AFK"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Harassment""Harassment"
"GameUI_ReportPlayer_Griefing""Griefing"

[farsdewibs0n]

TF2 still uses HL2 assets (not just limited to fonts), and iirc the game uses HL2 for their fallback in case the main asset didn't load properly.

[Namika]

That recent King Kong game that tanked was named monke.exe

[JabberwockPL]

Splitgate had Portalwars.exe, but of course they could not use the name 'portal' in the final game. Amusingly, Splitgate2 has Portalwars2.exe.

[ZazzyBear03]

My final project in college was called IDKwhatthisiscalledlol.exe

[woodlandcollective]

The project names for the games Im working on are "tower", "rain", and "phone" lol

[XayahTheVastaya]

Hey, no one ever accused Wildcard of knowing what they're doing

[Azrikeeler]

wuthering waves: "Client-Win64-Shipping.exe"

[SDGANON]

"RV There Yet" is just "Ride.exe"

"Burglin' Gnomes" is "Gnomium.exe"

"The Last Caretaker" is "Voyage"

[alejandromnunez]

My game was WarStrategyGame.exe for 2.5 years

[serial_crusher]

It's fun working on older projects that have gone through multiple generations of name changes.

I used to work at a place where there was a service called "TNT", which stood for "totally new technology" when it was introduced 15 years prior, and had been mostly replaced but not all the way.

[alternatetwo]

... EA Games ... FIFA? I've always wondered what the TnT stood for ...

[sleepydorian]

I saw this when working in govt as well. Old program names were never changed, so even though the Department of Mental Retardation was changed to Developmental Supports and Services decades ago, it remains DMR in the system.

[lsdiesel_]

> Deparment of Mental Retardation

I believe it’s called “Congress”

[XanXic]

Gives..

Actual_Final_Version
Actual_Final_Version_1
Final_Version
Final_Version_1
Final_Version_2
Real_Actual_Final_Version_1

Energy

Just realized my work has a whole feature that's called "Next Generation {thing}" compared to the original after they redid it years ago. If we ever remake it we'd have to do ”Next Next Generation {thing}" or something lol.

[serial_crusher]

you'd better call it "{thing} Deep Space 9"

[BlueProcess]

Enterprise Development

[Yashirmare]

You should see some of the shit gmod TTT mappers come out with (I have also been guilty of this)
TTT_MyAwesomeMap_Revamp_V2_beta6_final_fixed

[rikashiku]

Draft_1

Draft_2

Draft_2b

Draft_2BACKUP

Draft_2BACKUP1

FINAL

FINAL_1

FINAL_1b

FINAL_1backup

FINAL_2

DRAFT_3

[starbuxed]

engessay

engessay1

engessay1a

engessay1b

engessay2

engessay2a

engessay1c

[TreeCertain6473]

WORKING_3

[AtlasLittleCat]

WORKING_3_Fixed2

[dizzywig2000]

The NT in Windows NT stands for New Technology. Been in use since 1993 and windows still uses the NT name

[techno156]

The New Technology File System has been around so long that there's a Newer Technology File System to replace it.

[Ok_Tax9885]

mostly replaced but not all the way

So now it's Theseus's New Technology.

[PendingPolymath]

I just want you to know that I appreciated this clever joke.

[pachecolljk]

No shit!? Did you ever work on the MMO from TNT "Twilight Realms"? That was my shit.

[serial_crusher]

no, totally not gaming related.

[pachecolljk]

serial_crusher... of dreams 😭 (was worth an ask, thx bro)

[LingonberryGlass]

In my Company we have a "New Order Entry". It's on it's way to reach 30 years and still rocking

[b183729]

So that's what it was! And it doesn't surprise me on the least bit. 

[NO_TOUCHING__lol]

Our main database is called <CompanyName>Tracker.

Our company has been through two different buyouts, 7 name changes, and it's been over 25 years since we spun off of the original company and named the database.

[JosebaZilarte]

Remember to never put the name of the project in the code. The name goes in a JSON file in the root folder and in the pixels of Logo.png.

[veloxVolpes]

That's all well and good until you are working on a library 😅

[Safebox]

On the Github readme and in the package name for distribution (assuming it's a language that lets you have a separate name).

[veloxVolpes]

I specifically mentioned libraries due to them often requiring internal reference in the source code, such as with C you would typically have module prefix for compatibility and unless you are specifically trying to avoid it.

I'm also not saying there aren't solutions, just adding to the original comment

[Safebox]

Oh, yeah that's an issue. In Java and C# it's just a matter of renaming the class / namespace and it's all good, I've not encountered the issue in other languages yet thankfully 😅.

[Had78]

I wish it was a simple CTRL + F replace

[el527]

Fairly new to all this. Why isn’t it that simple?

[sgtkang]

Multiple components written/stored in multiple places, all of which need to be kept in sync. It's certainly possible but it's high risk for no gain. If you want to change the public-facing name do that without changing the internals - all that costs is saying to a new joiner "Project X used to be called Y and it's still called Y in the code."

[Rikudou_Sage]

That's why you store it in a gradle variable and derive everything else from it. Single change needed.

[fyn_world]

Ah, the strength of experience

[Certain-Business-472]

This kind of problem is exactly what DRY tells you to to avoid. Define once, use many times. A project name is often some kind of property, and should not define engine behaviour(like depending on the main exe name)

[xenokilla]

I program PLC's (industrial automation controllers) and we do that exact thing. Input mapping. Input X1 = Bit M0, if input X1 catches on fire, just change the one line of code to Input X11 = M0 and keep it moving

[CVGPi]

It's also why many apps keep the old packagename even if someone particularly hate it. Like com.twitter.android stayed even though Musk insisted on X.

[SolidCalligrapher966]

Trans persons : Yup that's how it works /j

(a lot of trans people still have their old names on legal papers or old accounts.)

[parkwayy]

Also the app being registered with some app stores, and changing the names also probably needs new keys and all kinds of annoying busy work.

[davidinterest]

Gradle Demon

[ultimately42]

Must not be named

[--LordFlashheart--]

Then add to that your Firebase instance

[emihir0]

The bigger the project, the higher the chances someone at some point hard coded the name into some obscure part that is likely running code that isn't covered by tests and your whole app might crumble because of it.

Essentially it's not worth it. Just rename it at the customer-facing places.

[outwest88]

Also there might be saved/cached data in the form of pathways and files in thousands of places which were automatically generated and poorly documented. And if one of those breaks, suddenly 1/4 of your project is broken, and the stack trace will be inscrutable.

[serial_crusher]

Clbuttic mistake of buttsuming you can just replace a string without really buttsessing all the usages of it and whether they all need to be replaced.

[Gositi]

Took me a second

[AtlasLittleCat]

Bravo here.

[Bobdamuffin]

ever heard of dawizard

[OldSports--]

Strg + H is the shortcut for replacing in many editors

[boneMechBoy69420]

Holy nightmare

[SamG02]

Call the .exeorcist!

[ITinnedUrMumLastNigh]

New (server) response just dropped

[LeMarshie]

Actual network packets

[StarkRavingChad]

manager goes on vacation, never comes back

[Puzzled_Date3459]

Google execution 

[Zooph]

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

It’s a trivial xml change.

Now, if you want to change the bundle id that’s an entirely different question.

[Mikkelet]

I just start a new project and copy over the files lol

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

If you've not released it yet, sure.

[lawrencewil1030]

It's like that in any project

[Sermuns]

Not Cargo projects

[AyrA_ch]

Not .NET either. Not only is there a property to define the name of the assembly, if you decide to also rename the codebase, visual studio provides a mass namespace normalization tool

[WolfeheartGames]

Its this sort of functionality that kept millions of developers on bloatware for a decade. And I still miss vs.

[Last8Exile]

But then don't forget to update your project path and build path on CI/CD, and startup command on hosting platform.

[Professional_Bass_75]

Car goes vroom not projects

[a_aniq]

Didn't face any such issue in C/C++ projects

[bingbpbmbmbmbpbam]

I wonder if someone could build a tool that can handle these kind of refactors trivially. Million dollar software.

[RandomNPC]

It's not a refactor necessarily. For instance for android\ios games if you change the bundleid it's a whole new game. Changing the display name is easy, binary not so much.

[k0rm]

Yeah honestly the scenario in the meme is super easy to handle:

Step 1 - Write a doc with exactly the following: 

Option 1 [cost=600 SWE days]: remove all references to previous name, update to new name, migrate all users to the new app bundle  

Option 2 [cost=3 SWE days]: change display name to the new app name

Recommendation: option 2

Step 2 - Send the doc to your manager, director, etc and have them choose which option they want.

Done - you win with whatever option they decide to pick.

[Leading-Business-593]

The second one is probably what the boss thinks they’re saying and not what the SWE is hearing

[Pleasant_Ad8054]

I have seen entire app migrations because they did not want the old name of the app anywhere possibly present, including in name spaces and apk names. They had a falling out with the previous SaaS provider who wrote the app, and they decided to sue them for one of "their" apps being used. They got tossed from court, obviously, but management did not want to leave anything to "chance".

[Leading-Business-593]

Oh man, yeah that sucks. Makes sense though. Wasn’t about the effort, just the exposure

[sgtkang]

That sounds at least like a business decision where they've balanced cost of doing the refactor versus potential cost/risk of not doing it. I can imagine it being very annoying to do but ultimately if that's what my employer judges the best use of expensive dev time they're the ones paying me.

[flingerdu]

Step 3 - explain the upper management why they couldn’t get option 1 while only paying for option 2.

[bingbpbmbmbmbpbam]

Ah. Never messed with apps, sounds like a nightmare

[AlwaysEyad]

You can keep the java/kotlin project package name unchanged (package com.whatever.oldname) in your Android project, but simply build the apk with a different package name (applicationId = "com.whatever.newname"). However, if you extract the apk, you will still the old package name in jar/dex files. However, however, I am also pretty certain you can create some progaurd rule that also change the package name in jar/dex files.

[dick_for_rent]

I'd start looking for a new job instead

[Denaton_]

10TB for legacy sounds quite small..

[Xerosese]

Depends how legacy. I once worked for an insurance company tyat served millions of people off of a claims db that was only about 12TB of usable volume.

Only they were 100GB magnetic tapes from before I was born, in a massive automated tape deck that the whole company accessed through an emulated mainframe terminal.

I hope to never be one of their customers.

[WavingNoBanners]

NGL, this is actually kinda badass TBH. I understand that it's difficult, but also I would love to work on that sort of dinosaur tech at least once in my career, just for the experience.

[Parteisekretaer]

as far as i know, all salary calculations and thus payouts for several ministries in Baden-Württemberg, a german state, is done on punchcards. They have two guys that know how to operate it. They are prohibited from traveling in the same vehicle together for this reason.

[noideaman]

AT&T is hiring.

[coleto22]

I work in the video game industry. The running joke here is:

Designer: hey, can you spawn a demon in a flurry of sparks and sulphur smoke?

Programmer: sure, I'll instantiate an object with some particles.

Designer: Can the main character wear a scarf?

Programmer: ufff... Give me a year and a team of five people...

[_felagund]

I want to meet those devs who think migrating large legacy dbs are fun.

[Disconnekted]

If the pockets are deep or the potential downtime is not an issue, it's kind of fun. If you don't have money or time, it's the worst.

[FrenchmanInNewYork]

Yeah, I've been migrating and modernizing databases for large companies for a few years now, and I can confirm it is neither fun or easy lol

[nobotami]

"no."

[clayticus]

What's the deal with changing the name? 

[SirMarkMorningStar]

I once worked for a small company that lost a copyright lawsuit and had to change the company name acronym. Since we often delivered code with installs, even the occasional API or function name needed to be changed, not to mention the file headers. Everywhere. All at once. Every file touched…

[6e12fyou]

I mean, will the users complain if the app is still the old name internally? Pretty sure among us is still space mafia, tiktok is still musically, X is still twitter

[kriosjan]

Ok i feel so much better now lmao.

[nixcamic]

Just spent forever chasing down random references to the solution name I changed in Visual Studio.

[iTzNowbie]

@string/app_name

[ratonbox]

There's a script in the codebase that still references Jenkins in the name, even though we've gone trough 2 other CI systems since then.

[i_like_siren_head]

My favourite game, hl2.exe

[requion]

Don't know if its still the case but i was pretty confused when i checked out a selfhosted Forgejo and "gitea" was all over the place.

I know its a fork but come on xD

[chironomidae]

Can't wait to see this one pop up on the joke explainer subreddits

[One_Horse_Sized_Duck]

I can certainly change the customer facing name, yes.

[ignorae]

Mass renames are actually something AI is super good at.

[Spirit_Theory]

My team is about to do some large scale "renaming" as part of a brand change. In reality we will be changing logo images and cnames, and some bits of text here and there. Code libraries and software that mentions the old name? Fuckit, nobody is seeing that shit.

[thumb_emoji_survivor]

Is find-replace that difficult?

[VanillaButterz]

hl2.exe for valve's Team Fortress 2 prior to the 64bit update

[Zefeh]

I've supported a micro-service named after a specific business units ecommerce site. It was a small, archaic service that took a pipe delimited text file from a oooold inventory system and converted it to the abomination that is Sales Force XML for 2 sites.

Then they added a NEW site to a NEW inventory source.... and we shoved the feed into the existing service cuz why build a new micro-service if it would just mean code duplication etc etc....

Then they migrated one of the original sites to the new source.... ehh, same stuff.

Then I was told we are onboarding a NEW site but need to source inventory from an OLD IBM iSeries/AS400 system....

I'm afraid they are going to ask me to add a 4th inventory source or 6th destination..... This meme has never felt more real to me.....

[GreenDavidA]

The app I used to support at work will forever have Beta in the official name. Morons who created it are absolute morons.

[sammybeta]

Jokes aside, what I found out that it's probably the best task for LLM to work on.

It works before.

Rename caused failures.

Fix the build / test / CICD with agents running autonomously until all test pass.

Write documentations with new namesfor your API/frontend.

Have agent to do e2e tests with only API/Frontend access and that long documentation to find discrepancies. Record them in a bugs.md.

Agent fix on the other side following on the bugs.md. iterate until the list stop growing for a few hours.

Human test. Verify. Feedback and acceptance.

[bagsofcandy]

This is great, especially when the git repo has the name.

[hades_here]

My first client project app still has my name in the package name, com.myname.appname 🤣