The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

My favorite part is where you claim to have been a PhD student at one time. Every time I read your retarded posts, I smell large cow patties. So, you're trying to get some cred by saying you attended a university longer than any of us? Creative use of imagination where you include some very specific bogus details to try to prove that.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

The Lions:
My favorite part is where you claim to have been a PhD student at one time. Every time I read your retarded posts, I smell large cow patties. So, you're trying to get some cred by saying you attended a university longer than any of us? Creative use of imagination where you include some very specific bogus details to try to prove that.

perv

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

So how long until someone sees someone trying to write a non-existent directory that someone decides to well, create said directory and lose the entire ticketing system?

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

Too bad he was too lazy to learn COBOL. There's a lot of contract COBOL jobs out there, and they all pay big money.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

Bob:
Too bad he was too lazy to learn COBOL. There's a lot of contract COBOL jobs out there, and they all pay big money.

Don't you have a retarded son to attend to?

CAPTCHA: appellatio -- I have no idea what a "pellatio" is supposed to be

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

Born Texas Proud:
The Lions:
My favorite part is where you claim to have been a PhD student at one time. Every time I read your retarded posts, I smell large cow patties. So, you're trying to get some cred by saying you attended a university longer than any of us? Creative use of imagination where you include some very specific bogus details to try to prove that.
perv

Only steer and queer come from Texas! Which one are you?

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

Sgt. Ermy:
Born Texas Proud:
The Lions:
My favorite part is where you claim to have been a PhD student at one time. Every time I read your retarded posts, I smell large cow patties. So, you're trying to get some cred by saying you attended a university longer than any of us? Creative use of imagination where you include some very specific bogus details to try to prove that.
perv
Only steer and queer come from Texas! Which one are you?

Prob'ly both.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

It seems to me that Jesse created an injection exploit, and executed it on company systems. That is a willful breach of corporate security policy. Not only am I shocked that he received a job offer, I'm also surprised that he was not summarily dismissed, and turned over to law enforcement officials.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

So... they implemented connection bureaucracy?

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

iranonymous:
When two words have exactly the same meaning, use the shorter one.
Unless of course you are an ignorant pompous blowhard.

That's ironic since "ignorant pompous blowhard" can be drastically shortened using words with the same meanings.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

Ben Jammin:
iranonymous:
When two words have exactly the same meaning, use the shorter one.
Unless of course you are an ignorant pompous blowhard.
That's ironic since "ignorant pompous blowhard" can be drastically shortened using words with the same meanings.

Why, aren't you an observant one. I'm impressed.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

TGV:
Robert:
ParkinT:
"Irregardless" IS NOT A WORD!!!!
Read the HTML comments
ORIGIN early 20th cent.: probably a blend of irrespective and regardless. usage: Irregardless is widely heard, perhaps arising under the influence of such perfectly correct forms as irrespective, but should be avoided by careful users of English. Use regardless to mean ‘without regard or consideration for’ or ‘nevertheless’.
Reading HTML comments is the greater WTF.

At least the comments give some insight into what passed for a thought process.

It's supposed to be a quote, but the protagonist is talking with a group of people at the time. Unless they chanted the answer out in unison, it's not a literal description of the event. As such, Remy deserves nothing but contempt for including that sequence of letters in his summary of it.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

I don't know about you guys, but if someone referred to me as "The smiling intern" I'd be a little upset.

PiisAWheeL · 2012-09-20 Reply Admin

Not Enterprisy enough. He should have used some regex somewhere.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

Jesse:
I built that form, but when I show you how it works, don’t hold it against me.

Clearly Jesse didn't know what to do with an intern.

My intern was built with great form, and she did hold it against me.

2012-09-20 Reply Admin

Where's the WTF? The kid's a genious! Made a silk purse out of a sows ear (or however the stupid saying goes).

2012-09-21 Reply Admin

Nagesh:
Why, aren't you an observant one. I'm impressed.

The real WTF is (a) Nagesh forgetting to write in character.

2012-09-21 Reply Admin

qazwsx:
qazwsx:
emaNrouY-Here:
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.

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.

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.

Yeah, but thanks to that comment I have discovered Firefox's "3D view" feature and had a good laugh. Thank you!

2012-09-21 Reply Admin

Irregardlessly

FTFY'all

2012-09-21 Reply Admin

Greasymonkey ftw

// ==UserScript== // @name TheDailyWtf - Show Remy's comments // @namespace TheDailyWtf // @include http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/* // @version 1 // ==/UserScript==

function exec(fn) { var script = document.createElement('script'); script.setAttribute("type", "application/javascript"); script.textContent = '(' + fn + ')();'; document.body.appendChild(script); // run the script document.body.removeChild(script); // clean up }

exec(function() { var regex = new RegExp(/Authors/Remy_Porter.aspx/);

var hasRemy = false;

var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');

for (var i = links.length; i--;) { var item = links[i];

if (regex.test(item.href)){
    hasRemy = true;
    break;
}

}

if (!hasRemy) { return; }

(function(b){b.innerHTML=b.innerHTML.replace(//g,')')})(document.querySelector('.ArticleBody')) });

Y_F · 2012-09-21 Reply Admin

My version:

// ==UserScript== // @name TheDailyWTF // @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js // @include thedailywtf.com // @grant // ==/UserScript==

showComments($('div.ArticleBody'));

2012-09-21 Reply Admin

ParkinT:
“...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!!!!

Corollary: I've had many times that I've looked at someone else's code and said, "That was a stupid way to do it. I'm going to fix that." Many hours of work later I discover why they had to do it that way, and I reluctantly revert my changes.

2012-09-21 Reply Admin

Mr Keith:
The Lions:
Danielle:
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!

I think this is known as the Rube Goldberg machine.

I think this is known as "middleware".

Or in some cases, "muddleware", when it's only purpose is to muddle through dumb problems.

2012-09-21 Reply Admin

Tangential comment: The beginning of this story with its reference to dozens of dropdowns reminds me of a far worse possible design that I've seen implemented.

At the hospital that I used to take my kids to every time they sneezed, they had this brilliant intake system. The clerk would ask you what your insurance company was. You'd tell her, and then she'd pull a binder off the shelf that apparently had a list of all their insurance company codes. She'd page through this until she found the right one and then type the code into the system. Then she'd ask who your regular doctor was. She'd then pull another binder off the shelf and search for the code for that doctor and type it in. Then she'd ask for your address, and she had another binder where she looked up something, I guess a city code or whatever it was. Etc. Some of the codes had few enough possible values that they fit on one page, and so they put the pages for those all in one binder. But every question she asked, she had to look up the code on a piece of paper. Apparently the system had no dropdowns and no look-up functions.

That hospital closed down a few years ago. I wonder if their user-friendly computer systems had anything to do with it.

2012-09-23 Reply Admin

The last five words before the

If you doubt this, then google "final solution".

2012-09-24 Reply Admin

Nobody has pointed the obligitory Tolkien reference yet so I will.

But the Greybeards were wise, subtle, and quick to anger

Tolkien

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

zelmak · 2012-09-26 Reply Admin

Robot:
Tolkien:
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Corrolary:

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

2012-09-27 Reply Admin

minitech:

javascript:(function(b){b.innerHTML=b.innerHTML.replace(/<!--/g,'<span style="color:red;">').replace(/-->/g,'')})(document.querySelector('.ArticleBody'))

You need to use document.getElementById('Primary') on the home page, otherwise only the first article gets decoded.

2012-10-07 Reply Admin

TRWTF: "Irregardless"

2019-08-30 Reply Admin

Updated version that works:

javascript:(function(b){b.innerHTML=b.innerHTML.replace(//g,'')})(document.querySelector('.article-body'))

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