• Anonymouse (unregistered)

    Wow, can I ever relate to this story.....

  • Pasa (unregistered) in reply to Jimbo

    Anonymous:
    Wow. This story has way more than one WTF. This is a Composite WTF design pattern. Someone should write a book. Instead of the GOF, the GOWTF. Normally I laugh at the dailty WTF. Today I actually felt bad for the guy. Sheez.

     The book 'Antipatterns' is out there for a long time and well worth reading.

  • Pasa (unregistered) in reply to Jimbo

    Anonymous:
    Wow. This story has way more than one WTF. This is a Composite WTF design pattern. Someone should write a book. Instead of the GOF, the GOWTF. Normally I laugh at the dailty WTF. Today I actually felt bad for the guy. Sheez.

     The book 'Antipatterns' is out there for a long time and well worth reading.

  • Kim (unregistered) in reply to mjo
    Anonymous:

    CR/LF when everyone else in the world already uses just LF: Priceless. 

     That's just not true. There were other computers that used CR/LF too. Not every computer followed the Unix-line...

  • webdev101 (unregistered) in reply to GoatCheez

    And I was thinking my boss was the only one created by god as an example of d*m*a*s.

     Well him (President/CEO/EVP Marketing) and the EVP Sales (originally from used car agency) to run the software company. I had to leave the job to save myself from killing myself...

  • (cs)

    Josh Assing, you know, his wife works down in HR, miss Dixie Normous?

     

    It never fails to amaze me how people will sink thousands into an application development project just to save a one-time license fee, or just to have "control of the source"... meanwhile, if there is some Windows or OS change, they're still screwed, so it's completely pointless to redevelop the wheel.

  • François Lamontagne (unregistered) in reply to SarekOfVulcan

    Worst. website. ever.

  • François Lamontagne (unregistered) in reply to SarekOfVulcan
    SarekOfVulcan:

    "I'm really enjoying all of these story wtfs. But is his last name really "Assing", or is that made up to protect the innocent? "

    Does http://jassing.com/ answer your question? :-)

     

    Sorry, forgot to quote... now that's better, let's do it again

    Worst. website. ever

     

  • Andy (unregistered) in reply to Hit

    Anonymous:
    I can't count how many times I've dealt with a variation of this.

    There time old question of "Buy vs. Build".  Too many managers out there seems to always be on a "build build BUILD!" mentality.  For whatever reason, developers  are apparently "free".  No way I'm purchasing that $50 component when I can have a developer make my own...for FREE!

    Great, someone might say.  More work for you, the developer.  Well, if you're a GOOD developer, then this will bother you, since you know you're essentially wasting a ton of time writing an inferior version of something that someone else has already done.  

    I have noticed the opposite. Our managers insist that we can't build anything if there is something out there that seems to do something sorta similar to what we could settle for more or less.

     

  • Gilhad (unregistered)

    I once did buy 3rd party library of database routines. After incorporating it into my program, it sometimes failed. I bug-reported, just to be told, that it is because I use some incompatible drivers and similar mumbo-jumbo. My drivers was ok, system was clean, but when debugging on disassembler, I found the reason - the library just did pointer arithmetics in incorret style (when offset was too high for register, it got truncated, but segment was not adjusted). It took me a couple of days (testing, bugreporting, re-testing, debugging...) and the 3rd party did not want to fix it "just for me, when others use it without problems". So I forced them to give me my money back and I did write my library in one week. It was faster, more stable and easier to use....

    Sometimes buying save you money and time, sometimes not ...

    (the 3rd party was larger company, documentation was detailed, everything looked well on the first look ...)

  • Peter Wolff (unregistered)

    Cars are loud, stinky, and bad for the environment. So let's abandon cars and switch to trucks.

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