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“...but when I show you how it works, don’t hold it against me.” I have lost count of how many times I have said something very similar.
PERSONAL RANT: "Irregardless" IS NOT A WORD!!!!
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Yup, that sounds very familiar. Stuff often times look weird two years after you made it.
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Where in this process is the ticket text passed? Does Jesse's code try to write a file called "I have the following problem with my printer driver. It does not translate to french."?
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Remy has been playing a touch too much skyrim methinks.
I wonder what sort of affect that shout would have in game? I'm guessing it would trigger a general protection fault.
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When I heard a guy doing narration on some old 30s or 40s B&W movie I watching one day use the non-word "irregardless," I decided that battle would never be won.
ALSO, this isn't enough of a WTF, I mean, where are the LAZORS to the Moon??
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Reading HTML comments is the greater WTF.
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Oh, yeah. When reading a Remy story (as opposed to a CodeSOD), always read the story in page source (unless you have some other way to read HTML comments from the webpage). I heard that someone had created a Remify add-on for firefox? That would be useful.
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I use Chrome's "Inspect Element" (Firefox has an equivalent feature built-in, and it also has the Firebug plugin which is way better) to read the comments.
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I think this is a beautifull lesson in life and I think many of us recognize a part of our life in this.. Many times, you have to do things in a WTF way, because you just can't do it any other way.. That's sad!
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Actually, scratch that. Neither Firebug nor Firefox's built-in tool show comments, at least in any obviously visible way. I guess it's Chrome or nothing.
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There goes the weekend...
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Don't forget to click on COBOL.
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I think this is known as the Rube Goldberg machine.
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I've been missing so much for so long...
captcha: suscipere - For when it is suspected you will disapear
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C20? C21 maybe...
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=regardless%2Cirregardless&year_start=2000&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
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Yeah! You're rigth! It is like a Rube Goldberg machine! Although I'm not sure it's the best thing in programming to make Rube Goldberg machines ;-)
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Loved the story. Thank you for sharing!
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A few years from now after Jesse is gone, another developer will see his ticket system and, without knowledge of why it's so messed up, will re-submit it as a CodeSOD.
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I used to be a programmer like you, then I took a WTF in the knee.
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Some of the comments for a previous remy article have some good examples of bookmarklets and/or userscripts that will do the job for you.
http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/The-Reporting-System.aspx
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Hmmm... Jesse at least didn't use XML in the files he threw against the mainframe. If he did, then it's a wrap and got a "WTF" sticker.
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I heard about it but never tried it. I program in C++ and do a lot of SQL.
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Here's a bookmarklet that will do the thing (both in article view and the comment's view):
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Not quite an addon, but a bookmarklet:
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Irregardless, it could have been a joke.
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Why didn't you minify that? Why didn't you take out the spaces, at least? Why did you use new Array()? Most importantly, why did you indent using five spaces?
Also,
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ParkinT : PERSONAL RANT: "Irregardless" IS NOT A WORD!!!!
English is a living language. You may not like that, but irregardless, that's the way it is. Irrelated question, how do you do a proper quote on this site?
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Yep, it happened to me just yesterday. The app vendor for our payroll package uses a "novel" approach to security to keep anyone but their web app from calling their stored procs. Normally in this sort of a situation I would wrap it in a proc and do an EXECUTE AS USER = '<user>', but their code actually prevents this from working.
To get around it, I threw the call to the proc I want to hit into an after insert trigger on a throw away table. When it's time to run the proc I insert a record.
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PERSONAL RANT: "Irregardless" IS NOT A WORD!!!![/quote]
Merriam-Webster disagrees with you (my emphasis added):
The most frequently repeated remark about it is that “there is no such word.” There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.
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A flat-file what, Remy?
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It's a perfectly cromulent word. It is constructed according to the perfectly legitimate rules of word amalgamation of English, by prefixing "ir-" to the word "regardless", which is constructed by suffixing "-less" to the word "regard".
Both "ir-" and "-less" indicate a negation of meaning (i.e. change the amalgamated word X to without-X), so "irregardless" means without-without-regard.
So it's a word, but it means the opposite of its common usage.
I use it regardless of its connotation, irregardless of its denotation. You're free to disregard its use, or continue to regard it as unacceptable.
--Joe
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Pure JS:
HTML-version (sorry, can't post a full anchor-code, href only):
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I think this is known as "middleware".
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Ad "Remify!": And even a bit better (revised timing) ...
Pure JS:
HTML-version:
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Rube-Goldberg-ware!
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I've mentioned this before, but here's something I did at my last job. (IT for a collection agency) Scenario: Windows environment; Client Access accessing an AS/400; Cisco Callmanager IP PhoneSystem. Client Access has its own Macro language with shortcut keys, and has a COM object. Objective: Dial a phone number on the screen to the users phone using a shortcut key in Client Access. How: Pressing the shortcut key called a CA macro. This macro called a local javascript windows script host file. This local javascript:
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That's nice...
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Yep, like my first technological WTF:
Some 13 years ago I started on my PhD and got to work with a newly build contact dilatometer (system for measuring changes in the height of a sample to a precision of 1 to 2 micrometer as a function of temperature, atmosphere and mechanical load).
The system was situated in a non-ideal position making it necessary to walk around a pillar between changing some parameters and telling the system to do a measurement and log it.
I didn't want to spend all my day changing something, getting up from the chair and walk some 4 meters, push the space bar on a keyboard and then walk back again, so I acquired an eraser, a foll of tape, a straightedge, 10 meters of 1mm diameter wire and 2 weights (one 1 kg, the other 4 kg) as I had noticed that at a height of 3 meters ran some of those cable racks/trays. I fixed it so that the eraser and straightedge made sure that when the small weight descended from the string it was attached to it would push the space bar on the keyboard. Thus I could sit on the other side and adjust the test parameters and then just lift the 4 kg weight to to a measurement.
I can still remember the face of one of the senior lab technicians when he walk through the lab and noticed the setup. He suddenly stopped and looked paralysed as his head followed the small weight going up and down for some 20 seconds before he nearly choked on his laughter.
The setup didn't last long however, as some of the higher up's thought that it looked far to much like a rube Goldberg contraption for their taste, however the test system was changed so that the measuring system was moved so it could be reached from the workstation (a change I had originally asked for but couldn't get approval for).
So sometimes you have to build / code some strange contraption to get your work done.
Yours Yazeran
Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.
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With this method of grabbing the contents of files which cannot be created we don't even need a filesystem. Genius.
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Internet Explorer: F12
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WTF is everyone talking about?!
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Unless of course you are an ignorant pompous blowhard.