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I... I simply don't understand. How could anyone be that stupid?
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Kinda fizzled at the end there, didn't it?
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I was going to comment but the disk was full
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Dilbert TV Show!
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Good. You fix the HTML. Remy can clean out his desk.
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The -- in the middle of the comment near the end causes Firefox to barf.
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Yay! A WTF with a happy ending.
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That's some quality coding there. Broke the entire website just by publishing the story.
Hint: You forgot to close your HTML comment tag.
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Yay! Broken in FireFox!
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...And broken HTML Quotes...
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There is a FireFox bug^H^H^H feature where any double-dash inside a comment block breaks the parser.
Guess what this article includes
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So TRWTF this time is... the article itself? :3
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The Real WTF is the GAWD AWFUL writing style of this article. Seriously, if you're going to embellish a story make some effort to have a fluid writing style. This is rubbish.
CAPTCHA: Minim. The "minim" amount of effort was clearly put into embellishing this article.
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wow, they actually implement SGML comments correctly? i didn't think anyone bothered to do that
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Goofus uses "--" in html comments....
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So that's why something went "OM NOM NOM" with the first few comments. Do you think they'll ever be rescued?
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it could be worse. you could end up with what we, until recently, had -- a cron job that cleans up those old builds. and, also, deletes the build that's in production.
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Was hoping for a story about a golden stream that trickled down from above.
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Works fine in Chrome. :3
The part of the story they don't mention is Tim went on to help found a start up which managed to catch a big account and continued to barely function in his new position. He now leases new cars every other month and relies on a battery of underpaid, desperate new grads that leave within three years of starting. Then he started eating babies and sacrificing their parents to Satan.
Moral of the story? Being bad at your job leads to hell.
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Eh, I thought that it was an interesting enough read. OTOH, it's gotta be fiction. Why would Tim be so useless? Four hours to come up with a plan to delete some files? He can obviously use the find command, and knows what nice does...
I think it's more likely that the firing squad needed someone to shoot, NOW, and Darrel was under the radar.
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Give me 4 hours. I might have this read by Monday.
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Tim, go away or^H^Hand I shall replace you with a very small shell script.
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Amazing, useless Remy writes a useless story about being useless.
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And then breaks the website using his stupid, useless comments.
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But either way, kudos to Remy for breaking TDWTF.
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<bobx><source>
<comment type="add"/><revision branch="tim"><source unit="bobx::cleandesk" line="152">4 hours to plane</source></revision>
</source></bobx>Admin
OK, but the part about "nice"... Maximum == nicest?
Also, would "nice" make any real difference for a process that's hogging disk I/O?
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Wow! I think this might be about my current workplace sometime before I got here... now to figure out which of my co-workers is "Darrell". Hmmmm.
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Dear Remy,
In case you haven't noticed, this is a grown-up place. The fact that you insist on using invalid html clearly shows that you are too young and too stupid to be writing stories.
Go away and grow up,
Bert Glanstron
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I gotta say, this is the most successful attempt at real writing I've seen on this in a while. You can tell Remy spent all week working on it - and not just because of the dearth of postings last week.
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Well, except that the syntax of English isn't formally specified and parser implementations have much more slop tolerance built into them, even if they sometimes insist on acting like dicks about minor problems that don't affect intelligibility.
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I disagree. There are way too many words for how little story there is here, and what's worse is that it reads like two stories smashed together at high speed. "Brevity is the soul of wit," but organization helps too.
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Didn't break my browser. But then I checked the source, and the comment had been fixed. Never realized that Remy's articles included "hidden" HTML comments.
Anyone seen that OM NOM NOM has an onclick event?
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The part where they were in front of management, and all eyes were on Tim, who was completely oblivious paints a great picture of what kind of developer Tim is (or was).
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I kinda like the way he stretches it out. When you don't have a lot of material, taking the long way around can work for you. Turns an anecdote into a story.
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Question, why all the hate on the TDWTF people lately? They're doing this in their free time so you can have some bit of enjoyment. This is completely out of hand, you're being abusive and intolerant of a free service. Can't handle a typo or two? Leave! Nobody wants you here anyway. Everyone should know if this is directed to them.
If you don't want to gain any enjoyment and you just want to be a worthless jerk, then go away.
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Why you gotta be a hater-hater?
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Original story:
Disk got full, build failed. Lead was fired while I deleted old stuff.
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QFT
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Seriously, who just sits around waiting for disks to get full and break something, instead of proactively monitoring space consumption?
People who don't deserve to be employed in IT, that's who.
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Loving the Burn Notice reference
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Nice try, except I only use Firefox for surfing pr0n. AKA "real work".
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Also, if I get a higher-up to scream at me "You have four hours", I will interpret this as 4 hours to get SOMETHING done. Also, I would watch exactly my wording while speaking to the head honchos. Get to the real point with the fewest words possible, as it is very likely that you will be interrupted mid-sentence.
Which might even be bad for you if you made a poor choice for your first words. Like "The filesystem's gone, but we have a backup from 10 minutes ago".
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More articles should contain completely random and nonsensical onclick events. That was exactly what my day needed.
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The unicorns were especially cute!
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The thing about a Project Leader... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes.