• Anon (unregistered)

    !--TEST COMMENT - DO NOT USE FRIST ----

  • JimmyCrackedCorn (unregistered)

    I actually developed applications on the North Coast of Alaska that relied on microwave relay links. They were highly sensitive to wind, blizzards, and yes, solar flares.

  • ANON (unregistered)

    I would also be annoyed if I couldn't read thedailywtf.com because of idiots who are reading docs.oracle.com. :)

  • Jaggerbush (unregistered)

    <troll>The real WTF is oracle, amirite?</troll>

  • eVil (unregistered) in reply to Jaggerbush
    Jaggerbush:
    <troll>The real WTF is oracle, amirite?</troll>

    It isn't trolling if you espouse the correct opinion.

  • spammy (unregistered)

    Just a head is up?

  • Jim the Tool (unregistered)

    Obviously the BOFH has taught the manager well. Solar flares.

    http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl

    Or it could be evil hackers from Serbia. Or maybe the CPU needs recalibration.

  • Sum Yun Gii (unregistered) in reply to spammy
    spammy:
    Just a head is up?
    Just the tip.
  • Mike (unregistered)

    I love the unit tests one. My supervisor did that 5 years ago. He made some changes and the unit tests didn't pass, so rather than "do the right thing", he commented out all the unit tests. We never recovered from that. Apparently "the clients didn't want to pay for unit tests" (the clients don't know what a unit test is). But now they're paying for costly maintenance whenever they want some changes (which is... all the time).

  • (cs)

    I always love the Unit Test ones like that.

    Dev: The tests are failing, what do we do? Idiot Boss: We can't ship with failing tests. Turn them off so they will all pass. Dev: WTF?!

  • Tim (unregistered)

    I thought 419 was the US national pension scheme?

    poh-tay-to po-tah-to I guess :-)

  • Pista (unregistered)

    Yeah, the one about unit tests is a real gem. It's so big a WTF that it justifies, by itself, the very existence of this site. All the others from the past ~10 years are just icings on the cake :-)

  • ClickClock (unregistered)

    I remember our unit tests failing caused management to add a new category to the pass/fail criteria and we had FAIL, OK and POK (or partially OK) which usually meant that the test didn't actually crash the unit, but the result wasn't correct.

  • Meep (unregistered) in reply to eVil
    eVil:
    Jaggerbush:
    <troll>The real WTF is oracle, amirite?</troll>

    It isn't trolling if you espouse the correct opinion.

    That is an entirely accurate definition of the term "trolling."

  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to Tim

    I thought 419 was a spray cleaner?

  • Salad Dressing (unregistered)

    Why did you display the unit test e-mails out of order like that? That's both strange and odd.

  • (cs) in reply to Salad Dressing
    Salad Dressing:
    Why did you display the unit test e-mails out of order like that? That's both strange and odd.
    Top-posting. It is indeed strange and odd.
  • JM (unregistered) in reply to Salad Dressing

    It was one email that replied to and quoted the other. Like this.

    Salad Dressing:
    Why did you display the unit test e-mails out of order like that? That's both strange and odd.
  • (cs) in reply to dkf

    Top-posting has one advantage in the presence of people who won't snip properly (i.e. 99% of the Internet's population). If you want the answer, you can read it immediately because it is right there at the top of the mail.

    dkf:
    Salad Dressing:
    Why did you display the unit test e-mails out of order like that? That's both strange and odd.
    Top-posting. It is indeed strange and odd.
    Interleaved (not bottom-posted, which is an offence suitable for punishment by impaling) replies are well-suited to messages that answer multiple points, but even then they require judicious snipping.
  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered)
    Just a head's up - Verizon is performing some maintenance in Coralville, Alaiowaska (it's apparently the new state produced by the merger of Alabama, Iowa, and Alaska). Network service might be interrupted.
    FTFY
  • Herwig (unregistered)
    Why no more Unit Tests? (from Antonio Yon)

    Not much to say here - the email pretty much says it all.

    Fake. There's noone working at my company named Antonio.

  • Paul Neumann (unregistered) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    I thought 419 was the US national pension scheme?

    poh-tay-to po-tah-to I guess :-)

    naw, US Pensions are the 912, not 419.
  • PHB Boss of the Department of Redundancy Department (unregistered)

    Dammit! What is wrong with you devs?

    Your "unit tests" are breaking my changes to the build, and all this incessant browsing to "docs.oracle.com" on company time is unacceptable! If you need to access the web for frivolous purposes, you must use the MUMPS API during break hours as per company Acceptable Internet Usage policy.

    IT better get their act together, finish the Alabama/Alaska/Iowa maintenance, and fix solar flares so I can reply to my email and claim my new gift card!

  • JAPH (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    I thought 419 was a spray cleaner?

    Try Formula 409.

  • Chelloveck (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Salad Dressing:
    Why did you display the unit test e-mails out of order like that? That's both strange and odd.
    Top-posting. It is indeed strange and odd.
    And, dare I say, TRWTF?
  • hrezs (unregistered) in reply to ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL
    ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
    Just a head's up - Verizon is performing some maintenance in Coralville, Alaiowaska (it's apparently the new state produced by the merger of Alabama, Iowa, and Alaska). Network service might be interrupted.
    FTFY

    no?

    Ala-iowa-ska

  • (cs) in reply to Meep
    Meep:
    eVil:
    Jaggerbush:
    <troll>The real WTF is oracle, amirite?</troll>

    It isn't trolling if you espouse the correct opinion.

    That is an entirely accurate definition of the term "trolling."

    It's "trolling" iff you do it on purpose to get angry replies, regardless of whether it's true or not, or whether you actually believe it.

  • (cs) in reply to JM
    JM:
    It was one email that replied to and quoted the other. Like this.
    Salad Dressing:
    Why did you display the unit test e-mails out of order like that? That's both strange and odd.
    The fun starts when people start mixing both systems.
  • (cs) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    I always love the Unit Test ones like that.

    Dev: The tests are failing, what do we do? Idiot Boss: We can't ship with failing tests. Turn them off so they will all pass. Dev: WTF?!

    TRWTF:

    "The tests are failing, what do we do?"

    You mean: you don't know what to do when the tests fail? See this boot? Bend over, I'm about to apply it to your fat, useless arse.

  • (cs)

    I worked for a while for a company that had an unwritten policy that any site that got much access would be blocked, because our office had a really slow Internet connection, and used an Oracle app that ran from Mexico. If you web browsed, you'd block people using POS terminals from making customer orders. Of course, that's TRWTF, not that sites are getting blocked--the blockages are actually a reasonable workaround to an unreasonable system.

    It would be interesting to know what the Oracle docs that were being browsed were--if it's, say, Java docs, then there's not really any good reason not to download the docs and host them locally to avoid the network usage.

  • JWBS (unregistered)

    We actually did have some Sun servers of a specific model that went wonky whenever there were solar flares. Some sort of problem with one tiny wire in a controller chip being too thin. Before I came in I'd check a solar flare site and if the sun was having a bad day, sure as shootin' those servers would be having a bad day too. The correlation was too strong to be pure chance.

  • luptatum (unregistered)
    It has become apparent that many of the Application Development staff are regularly accessing thedailywtf.com during work hours, consuming large amounts of internet bandwidth.

    Since this is negatively impacting externally facing business processes, this site has been blocked, effective immediately.

    FTFY

  • asdfg (unregistered) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    I worked for a while for a company that had an unwritten policy that any site that got much access would be blocked, because our office had a really slow Internet connection, and used an Oracle app that ran from Mexico. If you web browsed, you'd block people using POS terminals from making customer orders. Of course, that's TRWTF, not that sites are getting blocked--the blockages are actually a reasonable workaround to an unreasonable system.

    It would be interesting to know what the Oracle docs that were being browsed were--if it's, say, Java docs, then there's not really any good reason not to download the docs and host them locally to avoid the network usage.

    This is exactly the problem that a caching proxy (e.g. squid) is designed to solve.
  • eVil (unregistered) in reply to anonymous235
    anonymous235:
    It's "trolling" iff you do it on purpose to get angry replies, regardless of whether it's true or not, or whether you actually believe it.

    The intention is basically irrelevant (except to the person whose opinion it is) as it has no bearing on the subject matter as seen by a reader.

    Since it's not possible to distinguish between a fucking idiot, and a fucking cunt, there is no point in trying. Far better to simply take sentences at face value, and either ignore or agree as appropriate to the content.

  • jimbob (unregistered)

    Good thing none of my emails wound up on here.

  • (cs) in reply to asdfg
    asdfg:
    FrostCat:
    I worked for a while for a company that had an unwritten policy that any site that got much access would be blocked, because our office had a really slow Internet connection, and used an Oracle app that ran from Mexico. If you web browsed, you'd block people using POS terminals from making customer orders. Of course, that's TRWTF, not that sites are getting blocked--the blockages are actually a reasonable workaround to an unreasonable system.

    It would be interesting to know what the Oracle docs that were being browsed were--if it's, say, Java docs, then there's not really any good reason not to download the docs and host them locally to avoid the network usage.

    This is exactly the problem that a caching proxy (e.g. squid) is designed to solve.

    You'd hope so, but you know cow-orkers. True anecdote: I used to work with a fellow who would call 411 every.single.day to get the phone number for the (same) sandwich shop where he ordered lunch every.single.day. No caching at all.

  • Tasty (unregistered) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    I thought 419 was the US national pension scheme?

    poh-tay-to po-tah-to I guess :-)

    Not quite, it's a scheme to get US nationals' pensions.

  • LLC (unregistered)

    MUMPS stands for "Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System" and is a legitimate programming language. It's an older language but most programmers that have worked in the medical field know about it. Their question is a legitimate question. They are asking how to connect to a database (MUMPS can do this) and return a record set. They just don't know how to do it.

  • (cs)

    To be fair, a Nigerian willing away two fiddy seems more realistic than most scams.

  • Paul Neumann (unregistered) in reply to anonymous235

    Translated to C# for those unfamiliar with VB.

    anonymous235:
    It's "trolling" iff you do it on purpose to get angry replies, regardless of whether it's true or not, or whether you actually believe it !(It.IsOnPurpose && You.SeeksAngryReplies && !(You.Believe(It) || !You.Believe(It))) ? false : true;
  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to LLC
    LLC:
    MUMPS stands for "Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System" and is a legitimate programming language. It's an older language but most programmers that have worked in the medical field know about it. Their question is a legitimate question. They are asking how to connect to a database (MUMPS can do this) and return a record set. They just don't know how to do it.

    Whoosh!!!

  • bill (unregistered) in reply to Paul Neumann

    I thought they were 404: Pension Not Found.

  • eVil (unregistered)

    So, did our little domestic spammer finally stop?

  • n_slash_a (unregistered) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    I always love the Unit Test ones like that.

    Dev: The tests are failing, what do we do? Idiot Boss: We can't ship with failing tests. Turn them off so they will all pass. Dev: WTF?!

    Just remember to get that in writing. Also, comment out the affected areas of code too. When your boss asks why, you can forward his email back to him :)

  • Your Name (unregistered)

    Well we can see the Akismet spam filter is right on top of things, as always. :P

  • Neill (unregistered)

    Even 419ers are short on money these days:

    "Please indicate the registration Number and ask Him how much is their Security fee so that you can pay it."

    Well I am pretty sure God doesn't keep track of the 419 scammers fees, then again perhaps the angels get a discount...

    Neill

  • (cs) in reply to Your Name
    Your Name:
    Well we can see the Akismet spam filter is right on top of things, as always. :P

    Don't worry, it prevents us from ever linking to SO.

  • HTK (unregistered) in reply to JWBS

    Of course - they were Sun servers - their mothership was trying to call them back home.

  • ʘʘ (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    I thought 419 was a spray cleaner?

    Nope. 419 is the area code for Little Detroit.

  • (cs)

    The Oracle one: It's not surprising that it was a bandwidth hog. There seems to be a competition these days to see how much crud you can make the browser download with a web page. "Oh, you think 680 KB is big? My customers have to download 1.9 MB with every page they view! Including data from 69 ad sites!" Sing along with the rest if you remember the "wiener" song: "My page is bigger than your page!"

    The one that really gave me a snicker, though, was the one on the unit tests. I don't know why I never thought of that solution, but it solves so many things, to wit: "If it doesn't work, turn it off."

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