• Tundey (unregistered)

    I am an American of Nigerian origin. Why did I mention that? Because the funky language this dude was using is my native tongue. He seems to be pretty right one in his glossary but I don't know about all that Spanish explorer crap. FYI, the language is Yoruba and is native to people from western Nigeria and some other western african countries (like Sierra Leone).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language

  • Tundey (unregistered) in reply to Kevin Fairchild

    Me neither.

  • (cs) in reply to jay
    jay:
    Well, Microsoft did something like this with Hungarian Notation. But I don't think they understood it either, so it didn't really work.

    Probably why FxCop goes out of its way to tell you not to use it or anything like it if you run it over your .NET code.

  • consequat (unregistered) in reply to monkeyPushButton
    monkeyPushButton:
    luptatum:
    Anonymous:
    TSParent:
    Normally, I only quietly read TDWTF, but today hit a nerve. <snipped some rubbish about tourettes>
    <snipped some rubbish about tourettes being rubbish> My advice for Tourettes sufferers: just stop doing it you fucking weirdos! There, problem solved.
    Actually, its not a concious urge. You just blurt stuff out without any control of it.
    Please don't feed the trolls.

    Troll feeding is a time honored tradition around here.

  • Ersatz (unregistered)

    Re: 9 and 13 Nine is lucky in some countries, and thirteen is unlucky ... although not in the same ones. So maybe that's it?

  • DesGrieux (unregistered) in reply to Richard
    Richard:
    Anyway, one of his habits was using 9 and 13 instead of TRUE and FALSE. I don't remember how long it took me to figure that out. <<Shudder>>

    And what number did he use for FileNotFound?

  • My village needs me (unregistered) in reply to Kef Schecter
    Kef Schecter:
    If it were 7 and 42, or 19 and 76, you'd have asked the same thing.
    No shit. Is there a point in there somewhere?
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to My village needs me
    My village needs me:
    Richard:
    We had a weird contractor once, oh, a decade ago. One of these guys who charged 5X what the regular code monkeys got, and wrote lots of crap that needed lots of hours from him to keep up and running. Eventually he went away, and I was left to fix (read: rewrite) one of his modules.

    Anyway, one of his habits was using 9 and 13 instead of TRUE and FALSE. I don't remember how long it took me to figure that out. <<Shudder>>

    OK, I give up, why 9 and 13?

    Isn't it obvious to you people? In the Finnish version of Scrabble "TRUE" is 9 points and "FALSE" is 13, assuming you lay it on non-boosting squares.

    (Why, yes, I did have to look up Scrabble values to find out if there was a language where that made sense)

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to The 2-Belo
    The 2-Belo:
    If a horse were to contract Tourette's, would you be riding it and all of a sudden it would just blurt out, "INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO!"?
    You can't "contract" a mental illness, it's not like a cold, but despite this you've made the best comment all day!
  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    The 2-Belo:
    If a horse were to contract Tourette's, would you be riding it and all of a sudden it would just blurt out, "INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO!"?
    You can't "contract" a mental illness, it's not like a cold, but despite this you've made the best comment all day!

    also horses can't talk

  • Lee K-T (unregistered) in reply to Chris

    Either this or they just don't want to talk to you!

  • Paul Abraham (unregistered) in reply to Chris
    Chris:
    Anonymous:
    The 2-Belo:
    If a horse were to contract Tourette's, would you be riding it and all of a sudden it would just blurt out, "INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO!"?
    You can't "contract" a mental illness, it's not like a cold, but despite this you've made the best comment all day!

    also horses can't talk

    [Forgot to quote]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Ed

  • Peku (unregistered)
    Scrolling down through the rest of the code, Richard was glad he had the glossary.

    Of course Richard had the glossary, wasn't he the one who wrote it?

  • Mark Z (unregistered) in reply to Richard

    And 17 meant FILE_NOT_FOUND?

  • Pony Princess (unregistered)

    Neighing is perfectly okay! I'm shocked about this submission to the TDWTF.

  • Dave Ross (unregistered) in reply to TSParent

    Thank you for pointing that out. Other than our tics, people with TS are otherwise normal. And, we're certainly capable of writing code that doesn't make TDWTF (at least I hope not).

  • SR (unregistered) in reply to Dave Ross
    Dave Ross:
    Thank you for pointing that out. Other than our tics, people with TS are otherwise normal. And, we're certainly capable of writing code that doesn't make TDWTF (at least I hope not).

    All of you except this contractor

  • (cs) in reply to jay
    jay:
    Hey, just curious: Has anybody on this forum ever actually bought anything based on one of the spam posts? From the fact that the spammers keep doing this, SOMEBODY must be buying from them, or they wouldn't keep doing it, right?
    They could be attempting to link from here in an attempt to fool Page Rank and similar algorithms.
  • (cs)

    "Richard is Brillant !"

  • Mr Oku (unregistered) 
    ourTree.bearFruits(ourOku.haunt, ourFocus.contender);

    I don't care if it is a wtf, this is the greatest line of code I have ever seen.

  • C (unregistered) in reply to MisterCheese
    MisterCheese:
    TGV:
    Ask for different meds, because it is quite obvious that 9 + 4 == 13, so if we have a value, say x, and we want to test whether it is true or not, all we have to do test x & 4. Simple. Now, the good thing is, you can use bitwise | and & and it still will work, just like with ordinary boolean representations. And of course, you can add them, so 22 can be FILE_NOT_FOUND (easily detected because it is not an odd value). It's just perfect.
    Indeed. It is also very simple to invert: y=11-(x-11)

    I wish all the code I support was written by elves.

    I think you missed the main point of TGV's post... inverting is as simple as y=FILE_NOT_FOUND-x

  • TJ (unregistered)

    I've never bought anything from spam. But Juicy Jewelry has me intrigued. And a bit hungry....

  • Older & Wiser (unregistered) in reply to TheRider
    TheRider:
    cross-eyed:
    MrsPost:
    (You asked...)

    You must have missed the original reference - it was already posted twice.

    Really? I don't think so. Whooooosh!

    This makes no sense. The original post to which the 'you can say that again' was referring was posted twice. Thus the 'you can say that again' response was a joke about it already being said "again". Therefore, the saying it again by MrsPost missed the actual joke.

    Sheesh!

  • Older & Wiser (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    You can't "contract" a mental illness, it's not like a cold, but despite this you've made the best comment all day!

    Bull! I caught my insanity from my kids.

  • J (unregistered) in reply to Splork
    Splork:
    blah:
    Fools. They fired the man who is going to revolutionize quantum computing.

    Do re mi fa so la...

    I assume you meant "Do Do Re Mi So"

    Actually, it should be ..do re mi sol fa... (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfege)

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix
    fuzzix:
    jay:
    Hey, just curious: Has anybody on this forum ever actually bought anything based on one of the spam posts? From the fact that the spammers keep doing this, SOMEBODY must be buying from them, or they wouldn't keep doing it, right?
    They could be attempting to link from here in an attempt to fool Page Rank and similar algorithms.

    Too bad every link is marked as rel="nofollow" which means no pagerank for the linked site.

    No, spammers are paid by the message I believe. They'll advertise X messagse for $Y, and they'll email or post those X messages as agreed to, and get paid $Y. Thus, even if all X messages are deleted promptly, spammers still get paid. It's the idiot business that hires the spammers that's scammed of money. Spam filters capture most of the crap these days, and very few make it past them. Thus spammers aren't really caring if people see the message. There's just that many businesses wanting "marketing solutions" and willing to toss money to spammers to do so, even if the ROI is zero or negative.

  • All-Beef Patty (unregistered) in reply to My village needs me
    My village needs me:
    Richard:
    We had a weird contractor once, oh, a decade ago. One of these guys who charged 5X what the regular code monkeys got, and wrote lots of crap that needed lots of hours from him to keep up and running. Eventually he went away, and I was left to fix (read: rewrite) one of his modules.

    Anyway, one of his habits was using 9 and 13 instead of TRUE and FALSE. I don't remember how long it took me to figure that out. <<Shudder>>

    OK, I give up, why 9 and 13?

    Ascii 9 = Horizontal Tab = HT = Happily True Ascii 13 = Carraige Return = CR = Contradicts Reality.

    How is that not obvious?

  • Hellotoothpaste (unregistered) in reply to Scotty
    Scotty:
    Raven Darke:
    This is why linguists do not make good programmers...

    Not even cunning ones?

    Programmers usually do not make good cunning linguists. :-\

  • (cs) in reply to TJ
    TJ:
    I've never bought anything from spam. But Juicy Jewelry has me intrigued. And a bit hungry....
    Probably a pearl necklace.
  • A Nony Mouse (unregistered)

    You have all missed the point!!!!!!

    Consider: "District 9" & "Warehouse 13" [Google if you don;t know the references].

    OBVIOUSLY the person had inside knowledge that one was TRUE while the other was FALSE.

    "The Answer is Out There....."

  • taiki (unregistered) in reply to TSParent
    TSParent:
    Normally, I only quietly read TDWTF, but today hit a nerve.

    "Making animal noises" wasn't the reason the person was fired, and I hope wasn't even one of the reasons they considered firing him. Making those types of sounds is a very recognizable symptom of Tourette's Syndrome. FIring the person for not performing their work is one thing. Firing them because of a disability that has them making odd sounds... wrong.

    (Most people have no realization of what complex verbal tics are, which can range from animal sounds to cursing. And yes, I have a son with TS, who not only "neighs" at times but also "paws" the air like a horse.)

    Sorry for the rant -- it just irritates me when I see people responding to TS (and TS-type symptoms) with prejudice due to lack of information.

    And, as someone who works with someone who still things single-character variable names are great -- why wasn't someone reviewing his code, and thus catching this WTF?

    Usually most people with TS or other neurological conditions which can be negatively impacting to a work environment will explain these things.

    Why wasn't this caught? If it was a smaller work environment, and there isn't enough time or man power to double check someone else's work.. Granted if they did check in on this dude's code that first friday, they wouldn't have lost two weeks of work.

  • Azarien (unregistered)

    He wrote pre-obfuscated code!

  • TadGhostal (unregistered) in reply to Vilhelm
    Vilhelm:
    ...I can choose to quit twitching, but after a few minutes, my involuntary mind takes over.

    That is because you are weak minded, obviously, nAAAAAYbor.

  • Xythar (unregistered)

    I think an awful lot of you are probably missing the fact that the whole "animal noises" thing is more likely than not creative license and probably didn't actually happen.

  • fdizzle (unregistered)

    Clearly this guy studied the guide to unmaintainable code: http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

    Clever bastard, bet you had fun rewriting that mess :S

  • nisl (unregistered) in reply to no comment
    no comment:
    Raven Darke:
    This is why linguists do not make good programmers...

    You can say that again.

    He already did!

  • uxor (unregistered) in reply to Scotty
    Scotty:
    Raven Darke:
    This is why linguists do not make good programmers...

    Not even cunning ones?

    Well, maybe if they're brushing up their Danish..

  • ClaudeSuck.de (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    zach:
    well captcha's been cracked...
    They wish! If the captcha had been cracked and the spam posts were automatated then it wouldn't take them two tries to get the BBCode formatting right. So we have to assume that the spammers are actually lurking on TDWTF and posting their spam by hand. Which means we are dealing with the single most retared spammers ever to hock their wares over the internet! Hey spammers, I hope you're learning something!

    Not only they type it by hand but they also produce a regular WTF: printing, scanning on a wooden table, OCRing to MS Word and then copy it to the daily WTF.

  • Sin Tax (unregistered) in reply to Dianne
    Dianne:
    Last week I was working in the programming language in which you have to bless all your objects. I can't help but feel that there's something just slightly sacrilegious about that.

    Only if you were using the curses library.

    /Sin Tax

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