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Today's tech horror: "Hey, buni, can you figure out what version number of this software library we're using based on the copyright notice?"
Turns out, yes, I can. The copyright notice gives the last year we got an update, which in turn gives me a possible range of code commits which would have been our last. Visually diffing source files against files in those commits narrowed down the version number to "the last one for which we had all the commits."
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I hate having to do shit like this. I am proud of my ability to do it.
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