The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

wouldIDoHer should be an enum not a bool. Everyone knows there are three possible values:

Would Wouldn't Why not?

Indrora · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

BentFranklin:
wouldIDoHer should be an enum not a bool. Everyone knows there are three possible values:
Would Wouldn't Why not?

You forgot FILE_NOT_FOUND.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

BentFranklin:
wouldIDoHer should be an enum not a bool. Everyone knows there are three possible values:
Would Wouldn't FILE_NOT_FOUND

FTFY

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

frits:
Maurits:
Vladimir Poutines:
He probably meant to do root-sum-squared but forgot the root.

Skipping the root is a common optimization if you're just using the result as a sort key.

I wasn't aware of that. It makes sense for integers. I wouldn't try it for floating point numbers where values -1.0 to 1.0 were expected.

Why not? Try to come up with floating point numbers that break the sort order when the square root is skipped. I'll check back for your solution.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

xtremezone:
boog:
Actually, it's very easy to remove files from a Subversion repository's history.
Coincidentally, it's even easier to completely demolish your repository while doing so.
http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal

Unless you know of a better way. It seems #subversion doesn't. Do tell.

Nope, that's the only way I know how, although I did find a page outlining the steps: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/560684/svn-obliterate

As I was saying, the shell commands are very easy, but one wrong move could trash your repository.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

CodeNinja:
I don't think you understand what a const reference does...
Of course, if you get something as a const reference, you can't modify it without being a tool and casting it back to a normal reference (IE: 'girl1.face = 1' would fail at compile time if girl1 was a const reference). Besides, he's not attempting to modify any values in the Girl, just access them. Perfect example of a proper location to use a const reference.

xtremezone:

Sutherlands:
No, that makes sense. That way whatever you do to it in your function doesn't make it back to the original.
Ahem, const...

"Ahem", please read the reply again, both of you.

"TRWTF is passing by value" "No, that makes sense because [...]"

If you DON'T pass by const ref, you get a duplicate of the object, so you can "do what you need to."

Geez, it's like talking to 3rd graders.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

boog:
Nope, that's the only way I know how, although I did find a page outlining the steps: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/560684/svn-obliterate

Looking at this link again, it's a perfect example of how ridiculously easy it is to completely trash your SVN repository.

Read the comments on it to see why.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

This is a pretty elaborate advertisement for "Quiet War [by?] GollanczF Paul McAuley."

frits · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Mike:
frits:
Maurits:
Vladimir Poutines:
He probably meant to do root-sum-squared but forgot the root.

Skipping the root is a common optimization if you're just using the result as a sort key.

I wasn't aware of that. It makes sense for integers. I wouldn't try it for floating point numbers where values -1.0 to 1.0 were expected.

Why not? Try to come up with floating point numbers that break the sort order when the square root is skipped. I'll check back for your solution.

Your right, I'm wrong. Sorry. Didn't think that one through. I was thinking about how numbers less that |1.0| squared are smaller than the original number.

hoodaticus · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Enterprise Architect:
TRWTF is passing Girl by value instead of by const reference…

GOOD ONE!

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Sadly, this just ruined my faith in daily WTF. I though you guys were posting real code and not making stuff up. It's funny but no way did that actually happen.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

O(log(n)) vs O(n)

double NthPower(double m, unsigned n) { double prod = 1.0; while(n) { if(prod & 0x1) prod *= m; m *= m; n >>= 1; } return prod; }

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Erasmus Darwin:
A few things no one's seemed to have commented on:
NthPower is a case of reinventing the wheel, poorly. It's an inferior version of C/C++'s pow.

The scoring algorithm should be its own function rather than being implemented twice in CompGirl. Hell, it should really be a method of Girl, but Dave seems intent on writing C in C++. He's taking advantage of a few syntactic conveniences of C++ while completely ignoring OOP.

Even if you ignore the social implications and creep factor of ratings girls like that and wanting to blackmail Kendrick, Dave still seems to be a shitty programmer.

Two things wrong with that:

0: Treating a woman as an object is liable to get you into a lot of trouble in the workspace, and should be avoided.

1: Expecting a woman to properly evaluate herself would be risky at best.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

How can you resist making changes to that one and checking it back in?

Add another woman, maybe a useful function or two at the top?

My oh My!

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Eileen:
Sadly, this just ruined my faith in daily WTF. I though you guys were posting real code and not making stuff up. It's funny but no way did that actually happen.

No kidding. There's no way this would happen. Darcy's body is a 3, tops.

Silfax · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

toth:

Andy:

...

     double g1_score = Square(g1.face) 
-      + Square(g1.body) + Square(g1.legs);
+      + Square(g1.body) + Square(g1.legs) + Round(g1.boobs);
     double g2_score = Square(g2.face) 
-      + Square(g2.body) + Square(g2.legs);
+      + Square(g2.body) + Square(g2.legs) + Round(g2.boobs);

...

FTFY (why not use library functions that are already there?)

FTFY, I for one prefer my boobs to be rounded, not cubes

Weng · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

DeaDPooL:
Too far fetched to believe IMO

90% of programmers are socially broken. A tiny fraction of those are COMPLETELY BATSHIT OFF THE WALL PANTS ON HEAD RETARDED. Once you've met a member of that group, this kind of thing becomes "Wednesday" instead of "far fetched"

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

I wonder if after work he turned all suave and had trouble sorting out which girls he was going to do?

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Obviously, the computer is controlling Dave, and Dave.cpp is the rough draft for the master program to enslave the human race. Obviously, since the computer chose to start with Dave, it's going along very slowly.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

I don't get it....

Double cum for a girl with short face, short legs and short body - this bloke clearly likes small girls.....

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Admit it, this whole post was just a really subtle advertisement for tower defense games website, wasn't it?

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Weng:
DeaDPooL:
Too far fetched to believe IMO

90% of programmers are socially broken. A tiny fraction of those are COMPLETELY BATSHIT OFF THE WALL PANTS ON HEAD RETARDED. Once you've met a member of that group, this kind of thing becomes "Wednesday" instead of "far fetched"

And 57% of all statistics are made up on the spot. If 90% are socially broken, I must be the fucking MAN because I have friends AND a wife.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Martin Booth:
Why square everything in the comparison function? Without negatives it makes no difference. With negatives someone with a -5 for their face would rate higher than a 4.. didn't dave get this code reviewed?

It does make a difference.

Consider 1,2,3 (sum = 6, sum of squares 14) vs 2,2,2 (sum = 6, sum of squares = 12).

Ex: Now you try it with some other values.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Indrora:
BentFranklin:
wouldIDoHer should be an enum not a bool. Everyone knows there are three possible values:
Would Wouldn't Why not?

You forgot FILE_NOT_FOUND.

PORT_NOT_FOUND?

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

madjo:
Maybe the appointment is for his daily spell checker? "Remeber"? Where's the second M?

Remmeber?

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

JamesQMurphy:
boog:
So, the other day I was making the case that code was not a window into the emotions, experiences, and ultimately the soul of the developer.
After seeing today's example, I stand corrected. Well played, TheDailyWTF. Well played.

animal crackers or Lorna Doones
Lorna Doones. No question. Cookie always beats cracker.

I'm not sure if people outside the U.S. know about animal crackers here. Although they are called "crackers", they are actually sweet, like a butter cookie/biscuit. Despite Shirley Temple's song, animal crackers would not taste very good in soup.

Oh! I thought 'Animal Crackers' was a movie. did Shirley Temple's song refer to 'Duck Soup'?

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Remy Porter:
So, a non-WTF algorithm for quantifying people based on superficial physical characteristics would have the following features: 1) Attribute weighting: based on preference, attributes are weighted (some people will do anything for a pretty face, others for a massive rack, etc.) 2) Flexible attribute definitions: this algorithm offers nothing for the "ass man", nor does it offer fine grained control over "body", which- it's worth noting- contains many possible areas of interest.

Both of these are unneeded. This is Dave.cpp, so the attributes are weighted for him, as are the choice of attributes. He obviously isn't interested in fine grained control over "body", which isn't so unreasonable, given that the areas of interest aren't independent so he might as well combine them into a single value to avoid adding complications like covariance to the calculations.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

mfc:
//Remeber the f*cking appointment at 5 PM today
I hope the f*cking appointment is for an interview somewhere else.

It's a date. With Hashini.

henke37 · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

publiclurker:
1: Expecting a woman to properly evaluate herself would be risky at best.

Not to mention that it would lock you into whatever algorithm the woman feels like using, instead of using which ever algorithm the one actually using the application might want. Think of more than one user.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Harpo:
JamesQMurphy:
boog:
So, the other day I was making the case that code was not a window into the emotions, experiences, and ultimately the soul of the developer.
After seeing today's example, I stand corrected. Well played, TheDailyWTF. Well played.

animal crackers or Lorna Doones
Lorna Doones. No question. Cookie always beats cracker.

I'm not sure if people outside the U.S. know about animal crackers here. Although they are called "crackers", they are actually sweet, like a butter cookie/biscuit. Despite Shirley Temple's song, animal crackers would not taste very good in soup.

Oh! I thought 'Animal Crackers' was a movie. did Shirley Temple's song refer to 'Duck Soup'?

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

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Franz Kafka:

Sure, lots of your coworkers put improper stuff in the source control system, but why would you keep your todo list in a cpp file in the first place?

Force of habit? For the syntax highlighting?

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Most hilarious post since a long, long time

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

frits:

SVN Commit 
   Message:
     Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?
     
     <span style="color:white;">obligatory</span>

I'm sorry, Dave I can't do that for you.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Weng:
DeaDPooL:
Too far fetched to believe IMO

90% of programmers are socially broken. A tiny fraction of those are COMPLETELY BATSHIT OFF THE WALL PANTS ON HEAD RETARDED. Once you've met a member of that group, this kind of thing becomes "Wednesday" instead of "far fetched"

Dear God, how I wish you were wrong. But alas, welcome to my Tuesday... /cry

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Buzz Killington:
If 90% are socially broken, I must be the fucking MAN because I have friends AND a wife.

That depends. Are they stored in your freezer?

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Anonimoose:
mfc:
//Remeber the f*cking appointment at 5 PM today
I hope the f*cking appointment is for an interview somewhere else.

It's a date. With Hashini.

After all, you wouldn't want to test DaveGetsLucky.cpp in a production environment...

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

You also forgot DRUNK_ENOUGH and NOT_DRUNK_ENOUGH

Callin · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

JamesQMurphy:
I can also guess what kind of appointment Dave has at 5pm.

It's an appointment for MURDER

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

The scores for face, body and legs would be better off multiplied. The face could probably be weighted more.

double g1_score = Square(g1.face) * g1.body * g1.legs;

or such.

drfreak · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

How arrogant to have a WouldIDoHer bool and leave out everyone else.

Personally I would have named the bool Doable, and allow others to set their own personal values for the supeficial weights, taking them all into account.

Taking that even further, I'd add a DidHer int with a rating of how she was.

AndyCanfield · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Don't forget the macro: #define wouldSheDoMe ( ! wouldIDoHer )

drfreak · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Or a tri-state bool!

True = Would False = Wouldn't null or FileNotFound: Why not?

drfreak · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Neither would Shirley Temple. You'd have to exhume her body for starters...

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Richard:
Of course, if he hadn't told anyone, what're the odds that this would even have been noticed, since it wouldn't show up on a diff unless you nailed one of those two virgins?

Heh-heh, heh-heh, I see what you did there! Also FTFY with the second one.

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Vladimir Poutines:
Martin Booth:
Why square everything in the comparison function? Without negatives it makes no difference. With negatives someone with a -5 for their face would rate higher than a 4.. didn't dave get this code reviewed?

He probably meant to do root-sum-squared but forgot the root.

It looks like Dave's treating it as a 3-dimensional vector, working in squared space to avoid an unnecessary square-root (all you're doing is comparing, not determining the actual value of the girl).

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Actually, she's still alive.

frits · 2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Your Name:
Indrora:
BentFranklin:
wouldIDoHer should be an enum not a bool. Everyone knows there are three possible values:
Would Wouldn't Why not?

You forgot FILE_NOT_FOUND.
PORT_NOT_FOUND?

BackdoorAccessGranted ?

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

Rich:
O(log(n)) vs O(n)
double NthPower(double m, unsigned n) { double prod = 1.0; while(n) { if(prod & 0x1) prod *= m; m *= m; n >>= 1; } return prod; }

Your version doesn't compile. This one is correct:

double NthPower(double m, unsigned n) { if (n<=0) return 1.0; double tmp=NthPower(m,n>>1); if (n&1) return mtmptmp; return tmp*tmp; }

2010-09-13 Reply Admin

tater tots:
Fixed?
const bool wouldIDoHer = true;

win

lolwtf · 2010-09-14 Reply Admin

Error: in dave.cpp:17 Error: Expected identifier before = token double *** = 1.0; ----------------^

Dave.cpp

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