• anonymous (unregistered) in reply to darren
    darren :
    Worseha they covered folongevity is not a requirement of promotion.r each other. It should be law that
    I've found my new sig.

    Worseha they covered folongevity is not a requirement of promotion.r each other. It should be law that

  • Joel (unregistered) in reply to MuTaTeD

    I see what you did there. I visualized the story with the late Richard Griffiths too.

  • Captain Oblivious (unregistered) in reply to ih8u
    ih8u:
    JAPH:
    Perl AND PHP? Please don't introduce more languages than necessary. Either one would work nicely, though it might be easier to get PHP programmers to maintain the project.

    To quote the article, "WHAT?"

    Either you haven't used them, or you're a masochist. PERL is readonly, and PHP, with it's PERL-esque syntax that is far less consistent, would be just slightly worse than their current setup.

    Why do you use PERL and PHP? Because you HAVE to. With their static file nonsense, you can use a good language to get that stuff cleaned up.

    Wah, math is hard! Let's go shopping!

  • (cs) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    darren :
    Worseha they covered folongevity is not a requirement of promotion.r each other. It should be law that
    I've found my new sig.

    Worseha they covered folongevity is not a requirement of promotion.r each other. It should be law that

    Some people can't English well.

  • Christian Montoya (unregistered)

    Guys, the story starts out with "traditional music retailer turned e-business" and then it talks about the company being acquired by an electronics giant. I'm thinking this story is about Tower Records / Tower.com, but it could be some other entity...

  • Amakudari (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Charles F.:
    Coder 2: It stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. It's great for slicing up log files, extracting relevant data and outputing that data in a useful way.
    Of course this is TRWTF... "Perl" doesn't stand for anything at all...

    Is TRWTF that you're both right?

    http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl/pod/perl.pod#DESCRIPTION

    Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, except when it doesn't.
  • Norman Diamond (unregistered)
  • Decade (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that some of the quotation and apostrophe marks use proper tilted marks, and some of them use generic vertical lines. Unicode was invented ages ago. We should be using proper characters.

  • (cs) in reply to isee
    isee:
    TRWTF is PHP. And Pearl.

    The real WTF is people who blame the language for the code that gets written. If I buy some random car parts and find it doesn't run well after I jam them into my car, is it the manufacturer's fault that I'm not a mechanic?

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to Decade

    Decade wrote:

    「The real WTF is that some of the quotation and apostrophe marks use proper tilted marks, and some of them use generic vertical lines. Unicode was invented ages ago. We should be using proper characters.」

    You're right.

  • HeeHaw (unregistered)

    oh look, another daily WTF comment thread degenerating into unlikable nerds debating programming languages. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • /dev/null (unregistered) in reply to EvilSnack

    I remember at my first McJob in 1999 we wanted to add 2 more tables(making a total of4) to the database. This was for a news website and there were categories but they were not normalized. My fellow dev and I were told: 'I think you are going to end up with too many tables'

    It too me far to long to realize I need to fight for stuff :(

  • Eric gaped (unregistered)
    Eric gaped

    I've worked on many terrible projects, and I've run the full gamut of responses, but never has a project been so terrible that it's forced me to gape myself.

    I pity poor Eric, and I pity the poor proctologist that had to fix him up again.

  • (cs)

    Question: If the artists hate iTunes so much for eating up so much of their royalties, why when you visit the artists own website and then go "click to buy" does it redirect you to iTunes?

    Answer: because it's the far cheaper option for them. They want to make music and put details of their tour, and not try to manage a cloud for sale of music.

    Plus if it sells on iTunes it counts towards the official chart.

    But yes, I hate it when it directs to iTunes as I would like them to cut the price to something sensible and sell it off their own site and keep all the royalties.

    iTunes is the most horrific of music stores as I have to install all that bloated software on my computer simply to browse or buy something off their store, when really I should have a light web-based interface to provide me the ability to do those things.

    The real WTF for music purchasers was when Spotify removed the "Get" option to buy 100 songs off your playlist for £50, like they'd expect us all to run to iTunes to pay double for them.

  • (cs)

    And of course the real WTF are musical artists who are not the most popular ones and think they should be making more money than the big corporations.

    It may well be the case that [Enter artist name here] make more money from their music than iTunes do, but iTunes sell music by a lot of other artists too, and therefore are making more money than any individual one of them except perhaps the very most successful.

  • MrFox (unregistered) in reply to N one

    You'd expect employee's treated badly like this to leave the company and get a decent job. But often we see people going into defensive mode, they do their best to appease the boss, accept that they will catch much unfair agression, but dig in so it does not hurt them anymore.

    I think there was a research that showed this effect in dogs. They treated groups of dogs three different ways. Group 1 was always treated well. Group 2 was always treated badly. Group 3 was treated well and bad randomly. You would expect group 1 to be the most loyal and follow commands the best, but it turns out group 3 was most loyal and followed command best. A reason why this evolved like this could be that if there is an advantage to keep trying even though the situation is uncertain, because often you can't really change that situation. I can't actually find it now though.

    It seems people with a manager like this are in a similar situation. They have no control or knowledge as to when the next outburst will come, so at random they are treated badly. But sometimes they are also treated well, if the manager happens to like some result, also they do get paid. They feel like they can't change the situation because the company is too big and for some reason the manager is well respected.

    So if you are treated badly or randomly, dont go into defense mode, but think about what is bad and discuss it with colleges. If they agree explain to management why these things are bad and leave if they are unwilling to change. If they won't be reasonable, they can do the work themselves.

  • Axel (unregistered) in reply to Xaser

    "...Ellis is good at this and he should do articles more often."

    Um, Ellis is a she. Other than that, I agred with your comments.

  • Axel (unregistered)

    *agree (damned phone)

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