The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2007-06-26 Reply Admin

it's so uncalled for, it's actually funny

2007-06-26 Reply Admin

So being able to create all needed sql, DAL, DLL, BLL for a project (in all of 3 mintes) is fake and uncalled for lmao... see I am a madman

who could fake that ugly code though lol

2007-06-26 Reply Admin

This guy was forced to work with JSP custom tags. What else do you expect?

2007-06-27 Reply Admin

I'd say you're right. But why do you doubt?

"Java does not have operator overloading - whether this was a good decisison or not may be debatable..."

Haven't those guys with their comments already convinced you that the decision was damn appropriate? (they certainly convinced me ;-)

2007-07-01 Reply Admin

Is it worse reading everyone's captchas or reading everyone's opinion on "The REAL WTF is ..."?

Personally, I think there should be a comment filtering system.

The real WTF is my captcha is poindexter!!!! Do you believe that? It's so relevant to this article that I'm sure everyone wants to know that I got it.

2007-07-13 Reply Admin

Or how about:

setTextColour(COLOUR_CRIMSON);
print(strReverse("MURDER"));

or simply:

Johnny.location = thisLocation;

2007-07-18 Reply Admin

//This is a miserable hack I am about to perform.

I've done that one myself a few times, but I was never happy about it. It's usually one of those cases where your manager is breathing down your neck to have it fixed yesterday, and no you can't have 2 more days to do it the right way.

I also, after arguing with one of our moron business analysts for a week over a training issue, was forced to add in an input check to look for unbelievably dumb input and give a "friendly" error message as opposed to the standard one telling them they entered an invalid command. The function to check for the particular string I named id10tValidation.

2007-09-12 Reply Admin

Some code of mine (actual boring code bits removed) from a long time ago:

switch(uMsg)
{
	case WM_INITDIALOG: //Main screen turn on.
	//...
	return true;

	case WM_COMMAND: //What happen ?
	//...
	return true;

	case WM_MENUCOMMAND: //What you say !!
	//...
	return true;

	case WM_MOUSEMOVE: //Move 'mouse'
	//...
	return true;

	case WM_LBUTTONUP: //Take off every 'mouse button'
	//...
	return true;

	case WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK: //We get double click!
	//...
	return true;

	case WM_PAINT: //You have a chance to repaint make your time.
	return DialogEvent[DlgID].Repaint();

	case WM_SIZE: //How big are you gentlemen !!
	return DialogEvent[DlgID].Resize(LOWORD(lParam), HIWORD(lParam), wParam);

	case WM_HSCROLL: //For great scrolling.
	//...
	return true;

	case WM_ACTIVATE: //It's you!
	//...
	return true;


	case WM_CLOSE: //Somebody set up us the bomb.
	//...
	return true;

	default: //What !
	return false;
}

2007-12-06 Reply Admin

I DO swear in my comments and exception handling(of course it is removed after the bug is gone)

//This is a miserable hack that I am going to perform <-- Seems like this guy is working with a poorly documented 3rd party lib

2012-06-09 Reply Admin

Hello! dcafkda interesting dcafkda site! I'm really like it! Very, very dcafkda good!

2014-01-21 Reply Admin

The very first thing I ever wrote in Java after the obligatory Hello World had a 'this is a terrible hack but...' comment in.

(Since replaced with something I'm at least not ashamed of, but there's a block of commented out code (with original comment) appended to the bottom of the file with the additional comment 'I definitely don't need this anymore but am preserving it as a memento to my very first WTF'.)

The app was a simple calculator and I needed it to handle negative numbers. I initially did it by replacing -'s that were 'subtraction operators' (as opposed to 'sign indicators') with @ signs. Since at that point I hadn't written any validation logic, it had the interesting side effect of making my Calculator able to parse things like 23@4.

2017-05-19 Reply Admin

I once had to maintain a Delphi project for a short time. THE ONLY comment in approx 200,000 lines of code was: "//Up yours!" and that was on a variable declaration.

2020-01-31 Reply Admin

I remember a program I once wrote. It contained juggling around with images that got displayed to the user. Sometimes (but only sometimes!) the app would crash miserably. Never quite figured out why. Anyway, I got it into a pretty stable state after some fiddling around, but if the user tried to exit the program from a "crashed" state, the program would raise errors everywhere. I got so fed up with chasing "unhandled exceptions" through the code, I just put an empty catch block on one of the calling methods. Figured, if the error hasn't been handled up to this point, we just silently close the program. I wrote "//fuck it, just exit the damn program already!" into the comments. Yeah, not really helpful.

I wonder if that program still is in use and if the poor soul that has to maintain it at least got a chuckle out of my inability to handle the exception gracefully.