• first question mark (unregistered)

    i wish i was a programmer back then... i'd be god

  • (cs)

    That looks very strange.

  • (cs)

    This is just a variant of  GlobalConstants.cpp. Granted, it would be better if things were in a configurable table. Granted, it would be better if it had been some sort of type-safe enumeration. Granted, it should have been documented (be realistic, what is?). Granted, it .... oh, wtf?

    It seems like the code I remember working with (spelled: cleaning up) back in the late '80s, which appears to be borne out by the file timestamp. [sighs - bad code never dies - it just lingers interminably]

  • (cs)

    And when the filesize reached the MAX_FILE_SIZE imposed by the OS, well... the next file name to be used was paulaWTG.dat

    Brillant!!

  • sdagsdgsdfg (unregistered) in reply to snoofle

    The 80s was a bad decade.  Bad hair, bad clothing, some good music.  Except for Poison.

  • (cs)

    It could have been worse:

    {"Bool", {"True","False","FileNotFound"}},

    {"Bean", {"Paula","Brillant",IsVeryNull()}}, ...

  • (cs)

    <FONT face=Georgia>7,300 lines of Orable code. I'm sure it was written by a WTFU drop-out.</FONT>

  • ChiefCrazyTalk (unregistered) in reply to sdagsdgsdfg
    Anonymous:
    The 80s was a bad decade.  Bad hair, bad clothing, some good music.  Except for Poison.

    Dude, you have that wrong. It's "Bad hair, bad clothing, bad music - except for Poison"

  • rycamor (unregistered)

    Oracle circa '88 -- developers create custom code to store data in predicate form. Because of course that sort of thing doesn't belong in a table.

    Oracle circa '06 -- developers create stored procedures to do remote HTTP/SOAP calls with Java, because of course that sort of thing doesn't belong in the application.

    Things haven't changed that much.

  • some c++ programmer (unregistered) in reply to sdagsdgsdfg
    Anonymous:
    The 80s was a bad decade.  Bad hair, bad clothing, some good music.  Except for Poison.


    NAK NAK NAK.

    Poison Rocked!  They still do.  They did an awesom concert in West Bend, WI on saturday.  Over 40,000 people attended.
  • (cs)

    Who needs database connectivity when you have constants.  ;)

  • Randyd (unregistered) in reply to seymore15074

    somehow looks to me like the inventory was fixed - and maintained here so it could be loaded at any time in the future if needed :)

    a good table export could do the same thing.

    And I wonder if they care that autorefractor was spelled wrong...

  • (cs)

    these DWTF's suck. lets get something that's at least interesting

  • (cs)
    Jake Vinson:

    astProjEnvVar[] =
    {
    {"MED ALLG",    {"Med Allg",
                            NULL},
                            ""},

    {"MEDNET",      {"Medical Net",
                            NULL},
                            "02-05-1995"},
    

    {"MED_NO_DOC",  {"RK-1/RK-2/RK-3 Canon Autorefrakto/Keratometer",
                            NULL},
                            ""},
    

    And thus, XML was born.
  • Shizzle (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)

  • joe (unregistered) in reply to sdagsdgsdfg

    Anonymous:
    The 80s was a bad decade.  Bad hair, bad clothing, some good music.  Except for Poison.

    The 80's rocked!  ATM cards, Mircowave ovens, VCRs, Cable TV, the Mac, Video Games, and Cell Phones all became mainstream.   The 80's changed the world.

  • (cs) in reply to BiggBru

    nah, it would have had to have been a WTFU grad...a dropout would have known better.

  • (cs) in reply to Shizzle
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.
  • (cs) in reply to Pingmaster
    Pingmaster:

    nah, it would have had to have been a WTFU grad...a dropout would have known better.


    <FONT face=Tahoma>A dropout would know better if he did drop out purposely...
    What if the subject really drops him out? That would be the _real_ WTF...



    </FONT>
  • l1fel1ne (unregistered) in reply to BiggBru
    BiggBru:

    <FONT face=Georgia>7,300 lines of Orable code. I'm sure it was written by a WTFU drop-out.</FONT>

    I'd be more worried about the graduates of WTFU than the dropouts ;)

  • (cs)

    Screw foosball girl, beanbag girl is UBERHOT. Like seriously......foosball girl is a doofus.... instantly i saw beanbag girl, I wanted to be the beanbag.... Can't even form complex sentences with her staring at me....

    drool

    what was the WTF again? something about a large array of structs containing environment variable data? Oracle 5? 1988? Uhh..... Yeah, Things did suck back then. No surprise here... The TRUE wtf is that the environment variable data wasn't pulled from files in a directory structure with names like 1, 1a, 10z, etc... No, wait.... the TRUE wtf is that Michael Casadevall moderated this post originally... sure, i didn't add the directory structure line, but cmon... Does today's WTF seriously inspire anyone to make any kind of grand comment? It's just not surprising to me.... It was 1988.... Back then when you told someone to put something in the registry, they looked for a large book on the receptionist counter and a pen. Bheh, see? so uninspired... sigh

    That beanbag girl though.... lol....

  • (cs) in reply to TankerJoe

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.

  • (cs) in reply to Digitalbath
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.



    Careful, Michael Casadevall might moderate these "off-topic" posts, even if your comment does contain something pertaining to the WTF.

    grrrrrr
  • (cs) in reply to GoatCheez
    GoatCheez:
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.



    Careful, Michael Casadevall might moderate these "off-topic" posts, even if your comment does contain something pertaining to the WTF.

    grrrrrr

    He better not or I will get Dr. Emmett Brown's cousin over there on the right to file a class action lawsuit.  </joke>

  • Shizzle (unregistered) in reply to Digitalbath
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.


    I dunno, I think foosball girl is more fun.  Second, it's probably not a fair comparison because beanbag girl has probably had a makeup artist for the shoot, etc., while foosball girl was just caught having a friendly game during lunch break.  Besides, which do you think codes better?  I'm going with foosball girl.
  • (cs) in reply to Digitalbath
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.

    I whole-heartedly disagree.  Foosball girl is obviously a real girl, whereas Beanbag girl has makeup, photoshop, hair dye, etc. written all over her.  Let's not forget about 'high maintence'.  If you think today's WTF would require high maintenace, just start dating 'beanbag girl'. 

  • (cs) in reply to GoatCheez
    GoatCheez:
    Digitalbath:

    Well said.  It is not even close.



    Careful, Michael Casadevall might moderate these "off-topic" posts, even if your comment does contain something pertaining to the WTF.

    grrrrrr

    So, is that what Gene Wirchenko changed his username to?

    Sincerely,

    Bus Raker

    PS. I think anything written before 1995 should not be applicable to the DailyWTF.  First of all, not many of us younger people will appreciate it, and also it does little to add any informational value if it is outdated technology.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Bus Raker

    I want more Paula Bean humor!

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to anonymous

    You have beanbag girl humor. Stop being so demanding!

  • Eric (unregistered)

    Yeah, the beanbag girl is really super hot. Please, Alex, keep that kind of ads coming. There is nothing better to match an IT-geek that a super hot blonde chick. Please, please, get rid of the Opera and the old-guy action suit ads and put more hot blondes in the side bar!

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Bus Raker
    Bus Raker:
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.

    I whole-heartedly disagree.  Foosball girl is obviously a real girl, whereas Beanbag girl has makeup, photoshop, hair dye, etc. written all over her.  Let's not forget about 'high maintence'.  If you think today's WTF would require high maintenace, just start dating 'beanbag girl'. 


    Beanbag girl will never ever sleep/date/been seen with you in public.  Foosball girl probably won't but it's not an absolute certainty.
  • (cs) in reply to Bus Raker
    Bus Raker:

    PS. I think anything written before 1995 should not be applicable to the DailyWTF.  First of all, not many of us younger people will appreciate it, and also it does little to add any informational value if it is outdated technology.



    For the most part I agree. If it's something general in C, then I don't see the problem. When the software that the WTF uses is more of a WTF than the WTF, then it shouldn't be allowed to be called a WTF. (LOL!)


    P.S. Any conclusions drawn on the intellect or personality of the two ad girls are not valid. Assuming the "inner-person" is the same, then I'd take beanbag girl over foosball dufus any day of the week... even if it was mostly photoshop lol.
  • (cs)

    Not very Enterprisey!

  • (cs) in reply to joe
    Anonymous:

    Anonymous:
    The 80s was a bad decade.  Bad hair, bad clothing, some good music.  Except for Poison.

    The 80's rocked!  ATM cards, Mircowave ovens, VCRs, Cable TV, the Mac, Video Games, and Cell Phones all became mainstream.   The 80's changed the world.

    Sorry dude, cell phones first became somewhat widely available in the early 90's

  • Sodoma (unregistered)

    Canon 1995 in file from 1988? Something swtfinks here

  • (cs) in reply to Bus Raker
    Bus Raker:
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.

    I whole-heartedly disagree.  Foosball girl is obviously a real girl, whereas Beanbag girl has makeup, photoshop, hair dye, etc. written all over her.  Let's not forget about 'high maintence'.  If you think today's WTF would require high maintenace, just start dating 'beanbag girl'. 

    Ah, you are failing to see the whole picture.  You have to look past the airbrushing and make up of  beanbag girl and see the real person.  She is sitting there in jeans and no shoes.  She's definitely laid back.  The type where she isn't going to get upset if you don't take her out to a $100 dinner.  She would rather go to the local karoake dive bar and laugh at the drunken singers with you than put on a dress and sit at a restaurant with $30 appetizers.  She looks good because that's her job, but she doesn't put too much stock in it.  She will go out with you and your buddies to sports bars for Monday night football and won't drink a lot so you always have a designated driver.  Life is good.

    Whereas, foosball girl on the other hand, while being sporty and laid back as well, doesn't shower very often.  Ha.

  • Brad (unregistered) in reply to TankerJoe
    TankerJoe:
    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.


    Yeah, but so what?  Every girl you see in the checkout aisle is that much hotter than foosball girl.  But foosball girl gives the impression of being an actual code monkey.  That's what makes her freaking hot!

    captcha = shizzle  As in fo?
  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Bus Raker:
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.

    I whole-heartedly disagree.  Foosball girl is obviously a real girl, whereas Beanbag girl has makeup, photoshop, hair dye, etc. written all over her.  Let's not forget about 'high maintence'.  If you think today's WTF would require high maintenace, just start dating 'beanbag girl'. 


    Beanbag girl will never ever sleep/date/been seen with you in public.  Foosball girl probably won't but it's not an absolute certainty.

    As someone who's been married a while, I can tell you that my wife frequently/usually has that I've been mothering kids and cleaning the house all day look, but once in a while, she decks herself out and I still do a double-take. Don't judge a book by its cover...

     

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous

    Anonymous:

    Beanbag girl will never ever sleep/date/been seen with you in public.  Foosball girl probably won't but it's not an absolute certainty.

    I don't know, I think my girlfriend is just as cute as foosball girl, though admittedly not quite in the same league as beanbag girl.  (And no, this is not 'Weird Science')

    And she even codes her HTML in MySpace (yes she's older than 14) on the fly to boot!  I want to see beanbag girl do that.

     

  • (cs) in reply to Bus Raker
    Bus Raker:

    Anonymous:

    Beanbag girl will never ever sleep/date/been seen with you in public.  Foosball girl probably won't but it's not an absolute certainty.

    I don't know, I think my girlfriend is just as cute as foosball girl, though admittedly not quite in the same league as beanbag girl.  (And no, this is not 'Weird Science')

    And she even codes her HTML in MySpace (yes she's older than 14) on the fly to boot!  I want to see beanbag girl do that.

    Click through on the ad, then click on the main picture and you can 'choose your favorite position'

  • Anon Coward (unregistered) in reply to rycamor

    Anonymous:
    Oracle circa '88 -- developers create custom code to store data in predicate form. Because of course that sort of thing doesn't belong in a table.

    Oracle circa '06 -- developers create stored procedures to do remote HTTP/SOAP calls with Java, because of course that sort of thing doesn't belong in the application.

    Things haven't changed that much.

     

    Good one!  Actually, there's a reason for this.  The Oracle DBA's are a very powerful group and they get the best servers, always.  The application development group get wimpy servers because no one cares about applications - it's the data that's important!  So to get any kind of processing done, the developers have to run stored procedures.  And of course, we "loop" through a result set by doing convoluted sub queries.

  • (cs)

    It's not immediately apparent from the photo, but beanbag girl has a scorching case of herpes.

  • MusiGenesis (unregistered) in reply to Shizzle
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    Beanbag Girl is hotter, but Foosball Girl seems more approachable (or more like someone whose actual job could in some way be related to software development).  It appears that Cambrian House understands their target market a bit better than Sumo Lounge.
  • David (unregistered) in reply to Digitalbath
    Digitalbath:
    Bus Raker:
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.

    I whole-heartedly disagree.  Foosball girl is obviously a real girl, whereas Beanbag girl has makeup, photoshop, hair dye, etc. written all over her.  Let's not forget about 'high maintence'.  If you think today's WTF would require high maintenace, just start dating 'beanbag girl'. 

    Ah, you are failing to see the whole picture.  You have to look past the airbrushing and make up of  beanbag girl and see the real person.  She is sitting there in jeans and no shoes.  She's definitely laid back.  The type where she isn't going to get upset if you don't take her out to a $100 dinner.  She would rather go to the local karoake dive bar and laugh at the drunken singers with you than put on a dress and sit at a restaurant with $30 appetizers.  She looks good because that's her job, but she doesn't put too much stock in it.  She will go out with you and your buddies to sports bars for Monday night football and won't drink a lot so you always have a designated driver.  Life is good.

    Whereas, foosball girl on the other hand, while being sporty and laid back as well, doesn't shower very often.  Ha.



    Yeah and where as foosball girl would still go out with you and your budies for Monday Night Football, she would get so trashed you'd have to worry about where she was all the time (damn alcys:)).


    captcha = clueless (as in well most of these off topic posts but who cares they're fun anyway)
  • xcor057 (unregistered) in reply to Digitalbath
    Digitalbath:
    Bus Raker:
    Digitalbath:

    TankerJoe:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that nobody has noticed that we now have a competition between Foosball Girl and Beanbag Girl!

    CAPTCHA : jiggles (again, I always seem to get this one when commenting on the girls in the ads)


    The bean bag girl is at least one or two orders of magnitude hotter than the foosball girl.

    Well said.  It is not even close.

    I whole-heartedly disagree.  Foosball girl is obviously a real girl, whereas Beanbag girl has makeup, photoshop, hair dye, etc. written all over her.  Let's not forget about 'high maintence'.  If you think today's WTF would require high maintenace, just start dating 'beanbag girl'. 

    Ah, you are failing to see the whole picture.  You have to look past the airbrushing and make up of  beanbag girl and see the real person.  She is sitting there in jeans and no shoes.  She's definitely laid back.  The type where she isn't going to get upset if you don't take her out to a $100 dinner.  She would rather go to the local karoake dive bar and laugh at the drunken singers with you than put on a dress and sit at a restaurant with $30 appetizers.  She looks good because that's her job, but she doesn't put too much stock in it.  She will go out with you and your buddies to sports bars for Monday night football and won't drink a lot so you always have a designated driver.  Life is good.

    Whereas, foosball girl on the other hand, while being sporty and laid back as well, doesn't shower very often.  Ha.

    Does it really matter?  I mean, as long as one is on top of the other I'm happy.

  • joe (unregistered) in reply to snoofle

    The greatest cell phone advertisement was the movie WallStreet (1987)  Cell phones, Car Phones and Bag phones were widely available in the late 80's...  I had my first Nokia in 88. 

  • (cs) in reply to snoofle

    snoofle:
    Click through on the ad, then click on the main picture and you can 'choose your favorite position'

    I would have to say the third from the left ... or 'Front' as they call it.

    Nice work of creating an interactive website and using sexual innuendoes at the same time!

  • (cs) in reply to joe

    Anonymous:
    The greatest cell phone advertisement was the movie WallStreet (1987)  Cell phones, Car Phones and Bag phones were widely available in the late 80's...  I had my first Nokia in 88. 

    You could buy them, but using them was a whole other issue. Coverage was not ubiquitous (as opposed to mostly-ubiquitous today, depending upon where you live). The cell coverage sucked in many places, calls were frequently dropped, ... wait a minute - how is that worse than today (wtf)?

  • Unklegwar (unregistered) in reply to some c++ programmer
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    The 80s was a bad decade.  Bad hair, bad clothing, some good music.  Except for Poison.


    NAK NAK NAK.

    Poison Rocked!  They still do.  They did an awesom concert in West Bend, WI on saturday.  Over 40,000 people attended.

    But 39,000 of them were there to see Cinderella, who lost the coin toss for headliner.
  • Unklegwar (unregistered) in reply to joe
    Anonymous:

    Anonymous:
    The 80s was a bad decade.  Bad hair, bad clothing, some good music.  Except for Poison.

    The 80's rocked!  ATM cards, Mircowave ovens, VCRs, Cable TV, the Mac, Video Games, and Cell Phones all became mainstream.   The 80's changed the world.


    WTF? like 5 people in the world had cell phones, and they were the SIZE of microwaves.

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