> The person writing the "bricking the train" part should have realized that there is practically no legitimate reason for that code to be written
Hey Janusz, can you build a safety feature that prevents the train from operating under certain conditions. We don’t know all the conditions yet, so leave it flexible.
Even so, wouldn't someone still have to write either an if-then statement, or a database entry, to connect the geofencing capability to the bricking capability? Even if that was only a single line of code or SQL, it seems like a smoking gun and whoever did it can't possibly plead ignorance. No one who can operate a keyboard is that dumb.
Hey Czesław, I cannot leave it flexible, because it's a train that can run over 100km/h with 500 passengers inside, so I need to know the details to perform the required safety analysis. All in all, my name will be in the commit log if someone runs... git blame.
I think I owe you an explanation, as I was referring to the fact that in Poland "Januszex" is a meme.
Back in the 90s, when market economy started here, many many businesses' names had the "-ex" suffix, as apparently it sounded western.
And Janusz is a popular first name, which became a meme for a specific type of a businessman, I suspect that because years ago when the meme started, many of those businessman actually had that name (i.e. it was very popular in that generation).
Now, when you open januszex.com, what's there is a meme of "Janusz Alfa" [1] (I think it should be self-explicable), and a related long-nosed monkey meme (I guess they could be thought of as "Janusz Beta" ot sth like that).
EDIT: [1] The real person from the photo is a Polish politician. I couldn't find if he somehow "triggered" the whole meme situation, so I guess it was just a coincidence--someone stumbled upon his photo, used it, and the rest is history.
Hey Janusz, can you build a safety feature that prevents the train from operating under certain conditions. We don’t know all the conditions yet, so leave it flexible.