The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

VinDuv · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

FTWRT era sgnirts sdrawkcaB

PJH · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

http://what.thedailywtf.com/badges/168/-badge-edirrevo-tfel-ot-thgir

JBert · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

I could use a String reverser to read all the comments which will come...

Jalmer_van_de_Berg · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Backwards Intfrvifw

balazs · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

xpsa.esrever/moc.snoitcnuf-gnirts.www//:ptth

aliceif · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Your fancy website can't handle RLO properly: [image]

Keith · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

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FTFY

aliceif · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Notepad++ also doesn't seem to get along with it - unlike Notepad.

dkf · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

I love the touch with the variable naming.

CoyneTheDup · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Rejected by QA. Entered the word "detartrated"; the string was not reversed..

[image]

Hanzo · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

aliceif:
Your fancy website can't handle RLO properly: <img src="/uploads/default/13162/c77d8429eb27ecfc.png" width="522" height="500">

Oh, is that how you translate to Welsh.

accalia · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

CoyneTheDup:
Rejected by QA. Entered the word "detartrated"; the string was not reversed..

reproduced with the word radar

Keith · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Broken for phrases too:

rats live on no evil star

flabdablet · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

JBert:
I could use a String reverser to read all the comments which will come

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leet-key/

PJH · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Hanzo:
Oh, is that how you translate to Welsh.

You don't translate Welsh; you just shove some random vowels in amongst all the consonants to produce something pronounceable...

PJH · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

flabdablet:
uggcf://nqqbaf.zbmvyyn.bet/ra-HF/sversbk/nqqba/yrrg-xrl/

V pna gubebhtuyl erpbzzraq guvf nqqba.

Filed under: Bugger - selected the wrong menu item

accalia · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

PJH:
consonants to produce something unpronounceable...

FTFY.

:-D

leahmehler · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

To be fair, the programmer's solution was sound and correct. The problem was to reverse a string. Not any string. Least of all any parameter string.

And string reverse it does. Oh yeah, man!

PJH · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

No - it's unpronounceable to start with - the vowels reverse that...

Are you trolling for badges again? :imp:

accalia · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

PJH:
Are you trolling for badges again?

never!

PJH:
No - it's unpronounceable to start with - the vowels reverse that...

... adding vowels make it more plausibly pronouncible, but if you are doing proper welsh then you can't add so many vowels that the entire thing is pronounceable.... just parts of it.

on and make up a few glyphs that are only used in welse and treat them ad consonants sometimes anf vowels other times.

PJH · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

accalia:
but if you are doing proper welsh then

.. you'd be missing the point of my joke.

accalia · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

PJH:
.. you'd be missing the point of my joke.

nah, rather i'm attempting to extend it.

public class Accalia_Joke extends PJH_Joke {
   //jokey stuff goes in here
}

PJH · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

accalia:
nah, rather i'm attempting to extend it.

I'm fairly certain my joke doesn't need any enterprise adding to it..

accalia · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

enterprise‽

ENTERPRISE‽

how can it be enterprise‽ i didn't use XML at all!

JBert · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

flabdablet:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leet-key/

!sknahT

flabdablet · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

JBert:
!sknahT

WTB1J3IzIHczfCgwbTMu

NedFodder · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

I bet Discourse would have taken an MD5 hash of the string and used a rainbow table to find the reversed string.

bryan986 · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
...
         string f = "E";

The best part is using the variable 'f' for the character 'E' because the variable 'e' was already used.

eViLegion · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

I really want to know where the string "F" is supposed to be assigned.

VinDuv · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

NedFodder:
I bet Discourse would have taken **an MD5 hash of the string** and used a rainbow table to find the reversed string.

That’s already covered... http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/cannot-escape-in-bolditalic-markdown/4993/7?u=vinduv

JBert · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Yet it is also supposed to be fixed.

vita10gy · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

I hate questions like this at interviews because the correct answer is "every language ever has some built in method of reversing strings. I would look it up if I didn't know it."

You're quizzing them to make sure they can do the exact thing you DON'T want people to do, which is to brute force "solve" every problem like they're the first human being to ever come across it.

Masaaki_Hosoi · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Words cannot properly express the sheer stupidity of that code.

Jaloopa · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

vita10gy:
the correct answer is "every language ever has some built in method of reversing strings. I would look it up if I didn't know it."

That's the correct answer to "how would you reverse a string in a realistic scenario", not to "please demonstrate to me your understanding of strings and collections by writing a method to reverse an arbitrary string"

vita10gy · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Right, which is why I object to it.

"Please demonstrate you know what you're doing by doing something you would never do and we would fire you tomorrow if you did" is an inherently idiotic interview question.

Are array functions ok? Are other string functions ok?

boomzilla · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

PJH:
I'm fairly certain my joke doesn't need any enterprise adding to it..

Let's get this joke turned with the wind. <reverse midway!>

da_Doctah · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

PJH:
V pna gubebhtuyl erpbzzraq guvf nqqba.

QA tested by Cheryl Purely, Pyrex Clerk.

(It tickles me to note that "irk" and "vex" are both ROT-13 reciprocals and synonyms.)

Gaska · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

da_Doctah:
vex

I saw this word two times in my life - once was in C++ rant, and another was NPC's name in Skyrim.

accalia · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

da_Doctah:
vex

hmm... i see that a lot around here.

http://www.vexrobotics.com/

Gaska · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

vita10gy:
"Please demonstrate you know what you're doing by doing something you would never do and we would fire you tomorrow if you did" is an inherently idiotic interview question.
Are array functions ok? Are other string functions ok?

WIth most interviewers, you get bonus points for just using the bloody library function.

Obligatory Rust: println!("{}", "ABCDE".chars().rev().collect::<String>());

aliceif · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Oblig. C#+LINQ:

Console.WriteLine(new String("ABCDE".ToCharArray().Reverse().ToArray()));

Gaska · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

@ben_lubar

HardwareGeek · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

PJH:
Welsh ... pronounceable

No repro.

JBert · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

Ok, first step in the scenario: get drunk.

accalia · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

JBert:
Ok, first step in the scenario: get self embalmingly drunk.

FTFY

dkf · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

aliceif:
Oblig. C#+LINQ:

You've done it now! You fool!

puts [string reverse ABCDE]

NedFodder · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

dkf:
You've done it now! You fool!

Oh great, it's started. How long until we see GolfScript and Brainf*ck?

aliceif · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

I wonder if posting APL source code would kill Discourse.

dkf · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

It'd certainly confuse me…

PleegWat · 2015-01-22 Reply Admin

char c, *p, *q;
p = str;
q = str + strlen(str) - 1;
while( p < q ) {
    c = *p;
    *p++ = *q;
    *q-- = c;
}

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