Old DailyWtf article about a VCS reading .js comments
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Apparently I'm bad at google now.
Does anyone remember the old DailyWTF article about how an entire production environment died after a developer deleted all the comments out of JavaScript files only to discover that the deployment system actually used the .JS comments as part of the site deployment thereby making them actual executing code in that context?
Could I haz link plz?
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@WhatYouSay I dimly remember something like this approximately nine years ago. Sadly my Google fu is also parking
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Perhaps:
The Inner JSON Effect
Jake eagerly stepped into his new job, grateful for more experience and new challenges, craving to learn new software stacks and see what his new company had to teach him about the world of software. They told him he’d be working on some websites, dealing with JavaScript, Node.js, JSON, and the...
But the problem came when comments were added (to JSON, which doesn't actually have comments anyway), so ... maybe not.
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@Watson thank you! I was wrong on the details but this is exactly the one I was thinking of
