• (cs)

    Russians smoke a lot. They should be more socialist and heavily tax tobacco, like the USA.

  • (cs)
    It’s not in Moscow, though.

    I'm betting it's in Kiev or New Dehli.

  • (cs) in reply to Cecil
    Cecil:
    I know it peaked your interest, but for all intensive purposes isn't it just a mute point?

    I'm shocked that nobody has yet criticized poor Cecil for an epic fail on correctly using common turns of phrase:

    I know it piqued your interest, but for all intents and purposes isn't it just a moot point?

    Pique

    1. to excite (interest, curiosity, etc.): Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.

    Mute

    1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
    2. not emitting or having sound of any kind.

    Moot

    1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
    2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.
  • Danny V (unregistered)

    "This code must Break you."

  • PITA (unregistered) in reply to Codename
    Codename:
    Cecil:
    I know it peaked your interest, but for all intensive purposes isn't it just a mute point?

    I'm shocked that nobody has yet criticized poor Cecil for an epic fail on correctly using common turns of phrase:

    I know it piqued your interest, but for all intents and purposes isn't it just a moot point?

    Pique

    1. to excite (interest, curiosity, etc.): Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.

    Mute

    1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
    2. not emitting or having sound of any kind.

    Moot

    1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
    2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.

    You are too late. FAIL!

  • (cs) in reply to Codename
    Codename:
    Cecil:
    I know it peaked your interest, but for all intensive purposes isn't it just a mute point?

    I'm shocked that nobody has yet criticized poor Cecil for an epic fail on correctly using common turns of phrase:

    I know it piqued your interest, but for all intents and purposes isn't it just a moot point?

    Pique

    1. to excite (interest, curiosity, etc.): Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.

    Mute

    1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
    2. not emitting or having sound of any kind.

    Moot

    1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
    2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.
    Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
  • SR (unregistered) in reply to Codename
    Codename:
    Cecil:
    I know it peaked your interest, but for all intensive purposes isn't it just a mute point?

    I'm shocked that nobody has yet criticized poor Cecil for an epic fail on correctly using common turns of phrase:

    I know it piqued your interest, but for all intents and purposes isn't it just a moot point?

    Pique

    1. to excite (interest, curiosity, etc.): Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.

    Mute

    1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
    2. not emitting or having sound of any kind.

    Moot

    1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
    2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.

    WHOOSH!

  • blindman (unregistered) in reply to Codename
    Codename:
    Cecil:
    I know it peaked your interest, but for all intensive purposes isn't it just a mute point?

    I'm shocked that nobody has yet criticized poor Cecil for an epic fail on correctly using common turns of phrase...

    I'm shocked at you're cluelessness.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Codename
    Codename:
    Cecil:
    I know it peaked your interest, but for all intensive purposes isn't it just a mute point?
    I'm shocked that nobody has yet criticized poor Cecil for an epic fail on correctly using common turns of phrase:

    I know it piqued your interest, but for all intents and purposes isn't it just a moot point?

    Pique

    1. to excite (interest, curiosity, etc.): Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.

    Mute

    1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
    2. not emitting or having sound of any kind.

    Moot

    1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
    2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.
    So, is getting trolled a hobby for you or are you just that dense?
  • Lurker Indeed (unregistered) in reply to Danny V
    Danny V:
    "This code must Break you."

    Came to post this one, leaving satisfied.

  • Carl (unregistered)
    Dmitry explained... "I have first-hand experiences with, as I was chief architect.”

    The executive ... hired Dmitri

    Well there's your problem! Hired the wrong guy!

  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    Guys, I think we might be seeing the rise of the meta-troll who garners responses by expending time and effort pretending to miss a joke or fall for a troll.

  • Fred (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    Guys, I think we might be seeing the rise of the meta-troll who garners responses by expending time and effort pretending to miss a joke or fall for a troll.
    I don't understand. Please explain.
  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Yardik
    Yardik:
    The article did smack of a bit of 'cliche corrupt russian' stereotype... Oh well, entertaining read none the less.

    Reminds me of the online ethics training we had to do here a while ago. One of the questions was about dealing with an official from an "eastern European" country who was asking for a bribe to help things "go more smoothly". Needless to say, our eastern European colleagues were not amused by the implication and the question was hurriedly changed.

    For extra credit: Can anybody figure out what answer they were looking for? As you'd expect, all answers to the questions were laughably obvious and totally unrealistic.

  • (cs) in reply to Andrew

    So, it's trolls all the way down.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Vlad Patryshev
    Vlad Patryshev:
    So, after encountering one scoundrels and 6 idiots, the company decided that Russians are no good.
    From this, I conclude that all companies are statisticians…
  • (cs) in reply to again!
    again!:
    cdosrun:
    pjt33:
    Cecil:
    I no it peaked you're interest, but four all intensive porpoises isn't it just a mute point?
    FTFY.

    Yeah, I know it's irrevelant, but that begs the question, aren't most comments?

    more FTFY!

    FTFY...

  • Leo (unregistered)

    "Are you being sarcastic?"

    "Man, I can't even tell anymore."

  • John Cocksworth (unregistered)

    Alex, you really should of given the article a good red befor posting it. It's a ginormous mess as it is. :(

  • (cs)
    He claimed that CVS was notorious for “corrupting” commits, and he preferred the safety of the file system.

    Sounds perfectly valid and reasonable to me. CVS is complete and utter garbage, at least use SVN if you must use a centralized version control.

  • Bim Job (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    This DailyWTF left little to be desired.
    In Soviet Russia, code desires you!
  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    Andrew:
    Guys, I think we might be seeing the rise of the meta-troll who garners responses by expending time and effort pretending to miss a joke or fall for a troll.
    I don't understand. Please explain.
    It's like this, a meta-troller someone that replies to an obvious troll and then... and uh, ah fudge! You got me man! I been played.
  • Drop The Vaseline (unregistered)

    I was going to say something, but decided to make a mute point.

    And now, the cheeseburgers.

    • DTV
  • Al G. (unregistered) in reply to Alargule
    Alagule:
    In Soviet Russia, code writes YOU!

    Isn't that:

    In Soviet Russia, code forks YOU!
  • Procedural (unregistered)

    Does anyone know where the joke of the form "In Soviet Russia, machine works you !" came from ? What's the original reference or comedian ?

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Procedural

    Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukrainian-born American comedian, painter and teacher. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the United States... - Wikipedia, article Yakov Smirnoff

  • Kef Schecter (unregistered)

    Perhaps Dmitri and Dmitry are related to Thomson and Thompson (from Tintin)?

  • TopAssemblerCodr (unregistered)

    Close inspection of the code revealed that the crafty Muscovites were writing an auto-trading application in order to exploit the system. Had Brett not found the code, the system would have back-dated “special” transactions so that one could execute a buy order after the price skyrocketed at the original price.

    After Brett reported the exploit, the Moscow team was quickly disbanded. Dmitry, who traveled back-and-forth between Moscow regularly, was advised to stay there next time.

    the realWTF(tm) is that Brett didn't change the special codes to something of his own divising and rake in the $$$. Or is Brett already independently wealthy? I'm sure he got a huge bonus for finding this exploit and reporting it.

  • NF89 (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    And the original joke was "In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!", referring to government surveillance of it's people.

    I admit that the modern day bastardizations of a clever political joke are sometime funny, but some people go a little over the deep end with it.

    And dammit, I just lost my lurker status.

  • Geek Prime (unregistered) in reply to Yardik
    Yardik:
    I love eastern europe. 
    //Maybe I needing later..
public static void emailDealInfo(String ticker, String buyOrSell) {
   try {
      sendEmail(ticker, buyOrSell, "[email protected]");
   } catch (EmailException ex) {
      logger.log(ex);
   }
}

    Quote Previous WTF article WIN.

  • Geek Prime (unregistered) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    Alex:
    Well, kind of. There’s a second team working out of a satellite office. Labor over there is cheap, good quality, and, most importantly, totally trustworthy. It’s not in Moscow, though.
    Ahh yes, India. Where labor is cheap and the code is... well, ok not so good a quality. Maybe it's not India, maybe its Nigeria. I hear they have some good talent over there.

    No no no no no. It's ELBONIA you're thinking about.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to dr memals
    dr memals:
    Kattman:
    Ru:
    Harold von Finklestein:
    Upon first glance, the Brett was impressed with the look of the UI screens. The code, on the other hand, left little to be desired.
    I don't think it means what you think it does.
    That's because you're probably the sort of person who 'could care less'.
    Dr. Finklestien is correct, If it left little to be desired then it had everything in it, or maybe he is wrong, because it did have the ability to back date a buy and make you tons of money.

    As for the 'could care less', this comes from "As if I could care less', meaning that you can't care less. Other sources of this give it a Yiddish etymology in which they tend to say the opposite of what they mean in order to enhance the idiocy of the comment.

    In my country we call that "Sarcasm"
    Ahh, the caring continuum

    http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html

  • (cs) in reply to NF89
    NF89:
    And the original joke was "In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!", referring to government surveillance of its people.

    I admit that the modern day bastardizations of a clever political joke are sometime funny, but some people go a little over the deep end with it.

    And dammit, I just lost my lurker status.

    FTFY.

    And the cycle begins anew..errrr...I mean...the psycho begins a gnu.

  • anonimo (unregistered)

    At this time and age, anyone who hears of CVS and doesn't run for it's life is an WTF on itself.

    Nowadays, CVS and RCS are at the same level.

    CAPTCHA: odio - hate for cvs systems (in portuguese).

  • Nick (unregistered)

    "the Brett"

    "left little to be desired"

    "who traveled back-and-forth between Moscow regularly"

    "a couple off-the-shelf trading systems"

    I think you need to find a (new?) proofreader.

  • Procedural (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukrainian-born American comedian, painter and teacher. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the United States... - Wikipedia, article Yakov Smirnoff

    Thank you !

  • mathew (unregistered) in reply to frits

    "Managers will believe any line of baloney..."

    There, I fixed it:-)

  • hallo.amt (unregistered)

    Михаэль Шумахер: возвращение легенды...

    Михаэль Шумахер: возвращение легенды...

    Revenge came already ;-)

  • tovarich (unregistered) in reply to NF89

    Wasn't the original joke "In LA, you can always find parties. In Soviet Russia, the Party can always find YOU!"

  • Schobi (unregistered) in reply to Vlad Patryshev
    Vlad Patryshev:
    So, after encountering one scoundrels and 6 idiots, the company decided that Russians are no gooNo d.

    Good reminder for me, who on the daily basis has been trying to refactor the code from our Chinese colleagues - yes, thousands-line methods, copy-paste, no refactoring, just commenting out; global variables everywhere... so what?

    No, I am not defending all the crooks and idiots in Moscow; there's plenty. But if you look around, how many companies have tons of great programmers over there, in Russia; if you look at, hmm, the best Java/Scala IDE, if you check out where exactly the best anti-virus software is being produced... oh, whatever. Sorry for interrupting.

    Yeah, whatever, dude! We all know what to expect from Russian programmers from James Bond "Golden Eye". Everything else is just made up!

  • London Developer (unregistered) in reply to Ger
    Ger:
    Actually, russians are not the guys you go for high-level, easy to read, commercial software, nor you go to them for UI. But in case you need some crazy alghoritms... well, welcome to Eastern Europe.

    But their English is probably better than yours!!!

  • London Developer (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    It’s not in Moscow, though.

    I'm betting it's in Kiev or New Dehli.

    And the developers can't speak English. This is always a problem. If you can't speak English correctly, how can you interpret business requirements and code them?? Especially as most languages and libraries are actually in English??? The Indian developers here are awful, not only are they improperly trained, but their lack of language skills shows in their (AWFUL) code!!!

  • John Carter (unregistered)

    The real WTF here is the submitter. Did you even read what you've submitted before pressing the "Send" button?

    On the other hand, this is a perfectly accepted practice, when you are working with embedded systems and have no actual files.

  • (cs) in reply to London Developer
    London Developer:
    Coyne:
    It’s not in Moscow, though.

    I'm betting it's in Kiev or New Dehli.

    And the developers can't speak English. This is always a problem. If you can't speak English correctly, how can you interpret business requirements and code them?? Especially as most languages and libraries are actually in English??? The Indian developers here are awful, not only are they improperly trained, but their lack of language skills shows in their (AWFUL) code!!!

    Your business requirements are provided orally? That's TRWTF right there.

    Or did you mean "read English"?

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to MichaelWH
    MichaelWH:
    London Developer:
    Coyne:
    It’s not in Moscow, though.

    I'm betting it's in Kiev or New Dehli.

    And the developers can't speak English. This is always a problem. If you can't speak English correctly, how can you interpret business requirements and code them?? Especially as most languages and libraries are actually in English??? The Indian developers here are awful, not only are they improperly trained, but their lack of language skills shows in their (AWFUL) code!!!

    Your business requirements are provided orally? That's TRWTF right there.

    Or did you mean "read English"?

    If you can't speak it you can't write it and funnily enough we generally like our code to be written in English.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    If you can't speak it you can't write it and funnily enough we generally like our code to be written in English.
    Wouldn't it be more effective to have your code written in a computer language?
  • SCB (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    Anonymous:
    If you can't speak it you can't write it and funnily enough we generally like our code to be written in English.
    Wouldn't it be more effective to have your code written in a computer language?
    Maybe they are using COBOL.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    Anonymous:
    If you can't speak it you can't write it and funnily enough we generally like our code to be written in English.
    Wouldn't it be more effective to have your code written in a computer language?
    No, I really don't think it would be effective to have all our code written in binary.
  • Statler & Waldorf (unregistered) in reply to Bim Job
    Bim Job:
    Zylon:
    This DailyWTF left little to be desired.
    In Soviet Russia, code desires you!
    • That was wonderful!
    • Bravo!
    • I loved that!
    • Ah, that was great!
    • Well, it was pretty good.
    • Well, it wasn't bad ...
    • Uh, there were parts of it that weren't very good though.
    • It could have been a lot better.
    • I didn't really like it.
    • It was pretty terrible.
    • It was bad.
    • It was awful!
    • It was terrible!
    • Take 'em away!
    • Bah, boo!
    • Boo!
  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    If you can't speak it you can't write it and funnily enough we generally like our code to be written in English.

    I don't think that's true at all. I think it's perfectly possible to be able to read English without ever learning how to pronounce any of the words. Of course, nobody does this because it would be retarded. But I bet there are a lot of people with better reading and writing skills than speaking skills.

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