• LarZ (unregistered)

    Potato!

  • InsanityCubed (unregistered)

    trwtf is that Tyson hasn't been fired.

  • puzzled (unregistered) in reply to LarZ
    LarZ:
    Potato!
    WTF???????
  • (cs)

    How is it that a person who has been stripped of position, code and power still manages to thrash unchecked through the source code and not get fired?

  • Gary Williams (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that tyson hasn't been investigated. The whole "last login" change reeks of red flags. What's he up to?!

  • (cs)

    The solution is simple... download MySQL, PHP, Apache and/or any relevant technology you prefer and burn it on a CD. Then use it to chase Tyson out of the building. That stuff's like garlic to a vampire for this guy.

    "Tyson.. look what I have" "Wha-what's that?" "21st century technology!" "Oh, no, not that, anything but that. Have you no mercy?! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...."

  • (cs) in reply to LarZ
    LarZ:
    Potato!
    you say Potayto, I say first. Let's call the whole thing off.
  • (cs)

    Do you have any kind of Change Management System that Tyson violated when he made these ad-hoc changes?

  • henk (unregistered) in reply to DOA
    DOA:
    The solution is simple... download MySQL, PHP, Apache and/or any relevant technology you prefer and burn it on a CD. Then use it to chase Tyson out of the building. That stuff's like garlic to a vampire for this guy.
    thanks buddy, YMMD! :-D
  • Matt (unregistered) in reply to InsanityCubed

    QFT. This would get you fired in my company. 20 years experience isn't worth the insane amount of errors he is causing.

    InsanityCubed:
    trwtf is that Tyson hasn't been fired.
  • memals (unregistered) in reply to campkev

    Syntax error on line 4: Keyword "Potayto" was not recognised. For more information about this error type "help Potato"

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Hold on a second... surely Tyson was the one who siphoned off the entire database of credit card numbers when Steve was told to scrub them (in the previous article). And now he's apparently sabotaging the codebase? I understand that this guy is something of an "untouchable" because of his intimate knowledge of the system but this behaviour is adding up to a dismissal at best and a court case at worse. The fact he still has a job amazes me, even in this WTF laden profession of ours.

  • Yep (unregistered) in reply to memals

    "help Potato" Syntax error on line 1: Character """ was not recognised.

  • (cs)

    "Waitaminute - hold on here," spitted Tyson

    "Spat", not "spitted". The latter means something else entirely.

  • iT_Ti (unregistered)

    They had better fired him on the spot.

  • Thuktun (unregistered)

    "What...what would you say it is...you DO here?"

  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    "Waitaminute - hold on here," spitted Tyson

    "Spat", not "spitted". The latter means something else entirely.

    You must be crap at coding - "what do you mean 'for int i do', that should be 'for every instance of integer i one must perform the following tasks'. But wait, now it won't compile! Why didn't I just become an English professor?"

  • ih8u (unregistered) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    Zylon:
    "Waitaminute - hold on here," spitted Tyson

    "Spat", not "spitted". The latter means something else entirely.

    You must be crap at coding - "what do you mean 'for int i do', that should be 'for every instance of integer i one must perform the following tasks'. But wait, now it won't compile! Why didn't I just become an English professor?"

    And the "we should be able to type whatever" weirdos vs the grammar nazis war continues.

    To the nazis: minor infractions can be ignored -- were you honestly confused?

    To the weirdos: at some point your poor typing/spelling/grammar can't be understood -- if i say "bad coed makes me so hawt" am I talking about my interest naughty college girls or my anger at n00bs writing VB?

  • Milton (unregistered) in reply to Thuktun

    ...<mumbling>....take my stapler........that's my stapler.....<mumbles>

    mmmmyehhhh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to put a new cover sheet on those TPS reports in the future. I'll make sure you get a copy of the memo.

  • Shannon (unregistered) in reply to Jon

    Well its not quite what you're making it out to be, Jon.

    Spitted actually means that something was impaled on a spit (skewer type object for cooking meat)

    Spat means that something was ejected from the mouth.

    Two different words entirely, like Zylon said :D

  • Milton (unregistered) in reply to Thuktun
    Thuktun:
    "What...what would you say it is...you DO here?"

    ...<mumbling>....take my stapler........that's my stapler.....<mumbles>

    mmmmyehhhh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to put a new cover sheet on those TPS reports in the future. I'll make sure you get a copy of the memo.

  • MAG (unregistered) in reply to DOA
    DOA:
    The solution is simple... download MySQL, PHP, Apache and/or any relevant technology you prefer and burn it on a CD. Then use it to chase Tyson out of the building. That stuff's like garlic to a vampire for this guy.

    "Tyson.. look what I have" "Wha-what's that?" "21st century technology!" "Oh, no, not that, anything but that. Have you no mercy?! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...."

    The real WTF is suggesting MySQL and PHP

  • (cs) in reply to Jon

    Erm, no. "Spitted" has a completely different meaning to "spat". Although, apparently, it would have been fine 2000-ish years ago.

  • Daniel (unregistered) in reply to InsanityCubed
    InsanityCubed:
    trwtf is that Tyson hasn't been fired.
    ++

    BTW, valetudo???

  • Daniel (unregistered) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    Zylon:
    "Waitaminute - hold on here," spitted Tyson

    "Spat", not "spitted". The latter means something else entirely.

    You must be crap at coding - "what do you mean 'for int i do', that should be 'for every instance of integer i one must perform the following tasks'. But wait, now it won't compile! Why didn't I just become an English professor?"

    On the contrary. He must be an excellent coder, as he understands the languages he works with and writes them correctly.

  • (cs) in reply to LarZ

    No, the real WTF is that isn't a picture of a castle, and it is horribly Photoshopped.

  • jmucchiello (unregistered)

    Steve should endeavor to have a new source code repository created and move everyone except Tyson to it. Then just let him make his magnificent changes to the code no one is using. He probably won't even notice that no one else is modifying the code for months.

  • (cs) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    Why didn't I just become an English professor?
    Because you're just so good at flipping fries?
  • gray goat (unregistered) in reply to ih8u
    ih8u:
    Jon:
    Zylon:
    "Waitaminute - hold on here," spitted Tyson

    "Spat", not "spitted". The latter means something else entirely.

    You must be crap at coding - "what do you mean 'for int i do', that should be 'for every instance of integer i one must perform the following tasks'. But wait, now it won't compile! Why didn't I just become an English professor?"

    And the "we should be able to type whatever" weirdos vs the grammar nazis war continues.

    To the nazis: minor infractions can be ignored -- were you honestly confused?

    To the weirdos: at some point your poor typing/spelling/grammar can't be understood -- if i say "bad coed makes me so hawt" am I talking about my interest naughty college girls or my anger at n00bs writing VB?

    I actually translated it as you being "interested" in bad code...

  • Steve (unregistered)

    If Tyson isn't fired with extreme prejudice, both and the company that employs him will be making headline news, in the latest example of a rogue IT employee destroying a company's information infrastructure.

  • Yes (unregistered) in reply to LarZ
    LarZ:
    Potato!

    Timmay!

  • A. Peon (unregistered)

    Anyone else reminded of the ISC, BIND, and the DNS?

  • cfmartin2000 (unregistered) in reply to LarZ
    LarZ:
    Potato!

    That MISTER Potato to you!

    Captcha = gravis (more than one gravy, eat that grammar Nazis!)

  • Name goes here (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Jon:
    Why didn't I just become an English professor?
    Because you're just so good at flipping fries?

    Next you're gonna tell me that his burger deep frying abilities need some work,

  • (cs) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    No, the real WTF is that isn't a picture of a castle, and it is horribly Photoshopped.
    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/castle
    4. a large and stately residence, esp. one, with high walls and towers, that imitates the form of a medieval castle.
    Yes, it is a castle. What about it do you think is Photoshopped? It is kinda small to know for certain.
  • Paula (unregistered)

    man potato

    That's hot!

  • (cs) in reply to Name goes here
    Name goes here:
    Next you're gonna tell me that his burger deep frying abilities need some work,
    Deep-fried burgers (in 90-year-old grease) are GOOOOOD.

    http://www.seriouseats.com/2006/12/hamburger-america-dyers.html

  • Erunion (unregistered) in reply to MAG

    MySQL/PHP is at least better than MUMPS.

    cold shiver

  • abstract protected synchronized final void longSig() (unregistered)

    thanks to extensive cut-and-paste code and avoidance of requirements gathering, modeling, planning, documenting or writing functions that can do more than one thing.

    Functions with multiple, distinct objectives helps to improve the codebase? Explain!

  • Dan Quayle (unregistered) in reply to LarZ

    Potatoe (notice the 'e')

  • clickey McClicker (unregistered) in reply to Name goes here
    Name goes here:
    Code Dependent:
    Jon:
    Why didn't I just become an English professor?
    Because you're just so good at flipping fries?

    Next you're gonna tell me that his burger deep frying abilities need some work,

    Well it does take skill to do it right. The pieces tend to float apart in the frying vat.

    But when it comes to fries and employment look no further than one of my favorites.

  • (cs) in reply to InsanityCubed

    Man, you people are SO predictable...if it wasn't for people like Tyson who would there be to make fun of? ...LOL

  • Chuck (unregistered) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    No, the real WTF is that isn't a picture of a castle, and it is horribly Photoshopped.

    Kinda like the project "CASTLE" mentioned in the article?

  • (cs)

    So what would happen if Lyle and Tyson ended up on the same project?

  • Who ya gonna call? (unregistered) in reply to warrior
    warrior:
    So what would happen if Lyle and Tyson ended up on the same project?

    I imagine it would be like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters...

    Captcha: nobis -- n00bis?

  • Christian (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that no one forced Tyson to either recognize that writing code other people could understand is a requirement of the job.

    When he implied that someone needed years of experience with the code to understand it, he was standing on the rooftops shouting that he was a miserable failure at his job.

  • JohnB (unregistered) in reply to ih8u
    ih8u:

    To the weirdos: at some point your poor typing/spelling/grammar can't be understood -- if i say "bad coed makes me so hawt" am I talking about my interest naughty college girls or my anger at n00bs writing VB?

    Yes

  • (cs) in reply to abstract protected synchronized final void longSig()
    abstract protected synchronized final void longSig():
    thanks to extensive cut-and-paste code and avoidance of requirements gathering, modeling, planning, documenting or writing functions that can do more than one thing.

    Functions with multiple, distinct objectives helps to improve the codebase? Explain!

    Here's the one that made me do a double-take. They were copying and pasting unusable code.
    the new code is pretty much copied-and-pasted old code where, instead of printing text and VT102 codes, it prints HTML. Most of the old code wasn't reusable

  • darkmage0707077 (unregistered)

    Wait...so this is a follow-up of something posted to this site that seemed hopeless three months ago? And now we see that the situation (while annoying) has vastly improved??

    ...wow...Maybe the site is starting to work...?

    Captcha: eros (eery rows of text here...)

  • Mr. Spock (unregistered) in reply to InsanityCubed
    InsanityCubed:
    trwtf is that Tyson hasn't been fired.

    In one organization I worked for, this kind of behavior might have gotten Tyson fired... by a firing squad.

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