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I have doubts.
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Scott exclaimed "WE WILL TEST NOT SOFTWARE BEFORE IT SHIPS!"
The software will work not properly.
This comment is second not.
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Except for the orswellian approach, this is pretty much exactly what happens here.
Anyone looking for an OSS software engineer?
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Typos in the story seem to be par for the course here (and I cursorily spotted 4 or 5 glaring ones in this one), but when you screw up the main punchline of the story, in BOLD AND CAPS no less, that's a bit much, don't you think?
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"To be fair though, this wasn't entirely Dave's fault - while his freewheeling design style certainally didn't help the situation, the choice of Access to drive the data behind the application."
The choice of Access to drive the data behind the application....what?
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TRWTF is this sentence: "WE WILL TEST NOT SOFTWARE BEFORE IT SHIPS!"
What will we then test if not the software?
(this comment has been tested before it ships)
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As deadlines loom, I found this to be a fairly accurate progression of standards:
"We're gonna run a tight ship, everything fully tested and documented."
"As far as documentation, just put in the headings."
"Make sure you test, documentation we can get someone to do later."
"Just get it done, as long as it works, that's what matters."
"You got a clean compile, right? Ship it!"
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Wait, you guys test software? I thought that's why they made bug trackers.
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TRWTF is people so toxic that it's a good business decision to fund their business rather than let them into yours.
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Pr00fread No cumment b4 it posts!
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Maybe you should just adjust your sarcasm/humo(u)r detector?
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This type of thing is common practice in embedded systems. Mainly because there is not file system available and not way to add resources to executable files. No a WTF!
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Do you still laugh when you see "All your bases are belong to us"?
Purposely misspelling went out of style (and way out of funny) the 3rd or 4th time around with lolcatz some years ago. And doing it while bashing others for typos never went into style. Thank you, come again!
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Oh wow... this sounds familiar. Right now we have a beta product that is hailed as being the company's next big thing, a perfect complement to their existing best-of-breed toolset. It was bought from a dying competitor in a "nearly finished" state but the company big-wigs don't want to risk losing resources from their primary toolset so the dictum is "we will only fix bugs in this product if the customer raises them!". The only problem? There are no customers. It's a beta product, it lacks polish and nobody is interested in forking out license fees for a barely finished product. No customers, no bug reports, no fixes. The code just stagnates in source control, wishing for better times.
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[Insert Microsoft Windows Vista joke here.]
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Ironically, this is the same process TDWTF uses for proof-reading posts.
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WE WILL NOT GRAMMAR
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Ripping off the Simpsons never goes out of style.
Captcha: vindico|ocibniv - damn the lack of a backwards c!
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TRWTF here is that this comment is a post too late.
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I can't see the WTF. This is exactly what you would do with embedded development, if, for example, you didn't have a file system allowing you to access the files.
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Mark, please do us all (and yourself) a favor and have someone else read the article before you post it.
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Hey! It's "grammer" here, young man!
TRWTF: Why Alex takes such abuse for posting stories intended to amuse
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The Winner!
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Come on guys, it's obviously EVE Online.
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Sadly this sounds like the vast majority of companies I've wasted my career working for; some idiot who doesn't belong in business but has a family member/inheritance that they can use to stay afloat even when they don't do anything right and should go bankrupt. Yet, because of the family/inheritance that keeps pumping money into them, they stay around and make life miserable for their employees with ridiculous decisions and being clueless as to their business.
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Is this article about every product sold by Adobe, apart from Photoshop?
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There was a lot more bashing in your comment than his.
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I hate the Scott Slokums of the world. Not because they're evil, or even unlikeable -- many of them are the most engaging, earnest, genuinely nice people you would ever meet. But people with the same level of business sense see Scott, and think "hey, I can do that too", then they perpetrate all manner of corporate WTFery, occasionally destroying the odd life or two as their ill-constructed would-be Atlantis sinks beneath the waves. Meantime, Scott and his family wealth sail on, completely oblivious that he is setting the worst possible example to entrepreneurs everywhere.
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Who was Jay O. then? and how did he gain anything from all this?
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I lold
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Is it so different from "ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU"? I thought most people considered that a good piece of rhetoric.
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Yes, yes, it's a joke. Like Access.
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TESTING NOT SOFTWARE BEFORE IT SHIPS is perfectly standard and accepted in the realm of embedded software. You fail.
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Actually, I think there is a point at which you can say 'we won't bother fixing that bug until someone reports it'.
However, that point comes a long way after 'we won't test the software at all'.
This is why we have bug tracking software.
I mean, we've released software, and it's been 4 years before someone has spotted a bug - not because no one is using the software, but because no one uses that particular feature. If your software is safety critical, or difficult to patch (eg in an embedded system) then things are different, but in your word processor, if there's a bug in the 'change all numbers to nonary' button, who cares...
In a way this can be a useful way of finding out which functions to remove - deliberately put bugs in functions you suspect no one ever uses ;)
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TEST NOT WHAT YOUR CUSTOMER CAN DO FOR YOU... BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR CUSTOMER!!
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Whoosh!
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Base. Singular.
That is all.
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I totally agreen, and the worst part about it, it's usually some rich kid/guy's hobby shop for feeling important and dabbling in technology. Little do they know they are playing with people's careers, their livelihood, and that is just plain wrong.
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LOL, agreen.. today must be typo-tuesday
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What is this nonsense about Microsoft not testing its software before it ships. I worked at Microsoft as a tester. And yes, we did test continuously before our software shipped.
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No, I'm pretty sure that Glass Houses was Skinny Puppy, not the Rolling Stones.
Unless you're thinking of a Billy Joel album, but then you're on your own.