• (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    Matt Westwood:
    Sounds good to me. Less Americans in the world.
    Please show some sensitivity. I had a son who was American, and I can assure you it was no laughing matter.

    (Sorry, but I'm testing a theory that the best way to kill a bad meme is to use it in the most ridiculous way possible.)

    Please show some sensitivity. I had a son who was a meme, not a good meme, but still a meme.

    Please show some sensitivity. I had some sensitivity about a meme once, and I can assure you I was sensitive on the matter.

  • (cs) in reply to Born Texas Proud
    Born Texas Proud:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Born Texas Proud:
    Matt Westwood:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Born Texas Proud:
    Jay:
    Gordon Freeman:
    Someone is going to say there probably was some code inside that was removed (probably when all of the email list's mail providers moved the company's domain to their antispam filter).

    That someone is then going to say this is not a WTF, because whatever has an explanation cannot be a WTF, for some reason.

    Ditto. I never have understood those comments. If something started out right and then someone changed it to be stupid, that may explain how it got to be stupid, but it doesn't make it not-stupid.

    Like, driving drunk is stupid. If you explain to me that you only drove drunk because you were too intoxicated at the time to realize that this could lead to an accident, that doesn't make it any less stupid.

    I can't believe all of you self-righteous jerks who try to tell me what is and what is not ok to do inside of my own vehicle. You don't see me swerving all over the road while I attempt to send text-messages traveling at highway speed, but it's perfectly acceptable for me to enjoy a cocktail within the confines of my automobile.
    Hell yeah! If I want to take everyone else's life into my own two drunk hands, that is my God given right!

    Sounds good to me. Less Americans in the world.

    Would you rather have a short, happy life or a long dull one?
    If you want to die young, go shoot yourself in a field somewhere. Just be sure you don't take anybody else down with your selfish ass.

    Quite frankly, the sooner people with your attitude disappear, the better.

    Shoot myself in the field...where does the fun come in?

    Seriously, if you haven't operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated, you haven't lived.

    If you think you're really fucking hard, go and drive at 100mph through a built-up area, drunk as a skunk, with heavy metal blaring out of the wound-down windows at 11:30 at night in Saudi Arabia. Then come and mew-mew-mew my-pussy-hurts they won't let me drive drunk, snivel waah.

  • (cs) in reply to no laughing matter
    no laughing matter:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    Hortical:
    No, let him speak. I want to hear how Haskell does it. I'm sure it's very impressive.
    Actually, I was referring to Common Lisp.
    Please show more sensitivity! My son had the common lisp once and i can assure you, it was not very impressive!

    +100 fucking classic excursion on the meme

  • Bronie (unregistered)
  • Jill (unregistered) in reply to Silfax
    Silfax:
    rd:
    How could it possibly fail? Well, I don't know... but why would the programmer have written failure handling code if it couldn't possibly fail? Answer that, Mr. Smarty Pants!
    Shop Standards
   3.1.2.1(rev)Exception handling
      All code must contain exception handling without exception
    I think this programmer took the concept of exception handl,ing without exception a little literally
  • (cs) in reply to Bronie

    There's no point in posting ponies in this place; Remy Porter's one of the story editors…

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to Hater
    Hater:
    C-Octothorpe:
    I was going to insult you, but it seems being you is enough of an insult.

    Sucks to be you. You can't even stand up and answer manly, puss

    I know you are, but what am I?

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to PedanticCurmudgeon
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    Matt Westwood:
    Sounds good to me. Less Americans in the world.
    Please show some sensitivity. I had a son who was American, and I can assure you it was no laughing matter.

    (Sorry, but I'm testing a theory that the best way to kill a bad meme is to use it in the most ridiculous way possible.)

    Nothing ridiculous here....

  • Jim (unregistered)

    Is it just me or is C-Octothorpe (the real one) the world's biggest sucker for trolls? He's had several of them baiting him along today....

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    Is it just me or is C-Octothorpe (the real one) the world's biggest sucker for trolls? He's had several of them baiting him along today....
    Matt Westwood not so far behind.... At least frits and boog seem to be selective about which trolls they follow....
  • frits (unregistered) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    At least frits and boog seem to be selective about which trolls they follow....

    Marry me!

  • boog (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Marry me!

    How gay, I don't want your ass anymore

  • (cs)

    Oh, come now! As anyone who watches politicians knows: Truth is exceptional.

  • (cs) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    Jim:
    Is it just me or is C-Octothorpe (the real one) the world's biggest sucker for trolls? He's had several of them baiting him along today....
    Matt Westwood not so far behind.... At least frits and boog seem to be selective about which trolls they follow....

    It can be fun. Like you feed the sealions at the zoo to hear them going: onk, onk.

    Oh dear, I've just gone and done it again ...

  • Gordon Freeman (unregistered) in reply to Joe
    Joe:
    If "return true" throws an exception that must be handled, why wouldn't you also handle the exception that "return false" might also generate?

    Unless...

    the object-oriented language defines false as a primitive, but true needs to be an instantiated object (which as a piece of syntactic sugar happens without an explicit operation - return true works the same as return true() or return new true. Much like what some languages appear to do with numeric constants: 5.ToString() anyone?)

    In which case, TRWTF is the language.

    --Joe

    It's VB.NET, don't you see?

    About exhausting a meme, I think the best way to kill a meme is to explain it to death.

    That's because immature teenagers who use them are just looking for a cryptic language that only them and their bunch (or gang or bros or whatever vocabulary there is nowadays for it) understand, thus reinforcing the impression of sharing an identity. Obviously if you explain all of it (typically by writing a meme wiki), everyone outside the group can understand it, so the meme does not fill that role and is left only with its inner humoristic potential. Most memes don't have one, so they just die.

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    There's no point in posting ponies in this place; Remy Porter's one of the story editors…
    Please show some sensitivity! My son actually is Remy Porter and i can assure you: it is no laughing matter!
  • panvicka (unregistered)

    Oh, truth is no longer truth :(

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to dohpaz42
    dohpaz42:
    At first glimpes, it's a small WTF - if at all. On further reflection, this function seems to have been deprecated and its functionality removed. And, instead of spending the time going through the entire code base and refactoring every spot that touched this function, they simply made it a stub that always returns true; probably with the idea of coming back at a later date to remove the function and its references completely. Should they have removed the Try/Catch? Maybe, but it's a no-op, so it does no harm except to waste a few bytes on the disk (and somehow qualify as a front-page WTF on this site).

    Yes .. because finding every spot is soooo hard ... like open notepad ++, find in files (dir : all source files) "stupidfunction(" ... set var true + check var true is hardly "nothing" . empty functions for the purpose of future extension ... maybe, but long-term codebase littering with random crap is not a good thing. If anything, it tells you how much the rest has to be refactored --

    But yes ... hardly a good WTF.

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to Silfax
    Silfax:
    rd:
    How could it possibly fail? Well, I don't know... but why would the programmer have written failure handling code if it couldn't possibly fail? Answer that, Mr. Smarty Pants!
    Shop Standards
   3.1.2.1(rev)Exception handling
      All code must contain exception handling without exception

    As long as the shop standards don't mention that you should always create empty useless functions ... that hardly explains the present case ;)

  • (cs) in reply to L.
    L.:
    dohpaz42:
    At first glimpes, it's a small WTF - if at all. On further reflection, this function seems to have been deprecated and its functionality removed. And, instead of spending the time going through the entire code base and refactoring every spot that touched this function, they simply made it a stub that always returns true; probably with the idea of coming back at a later date to remove the function and its references completely. Should they have removed the Try/Catch? Maybe, but it's a no-op, so it does no harm except to waste a few bytes on the disk (and somehow qualify as a front-page WTF on this site).

    Yes .. because finding every spot is soooo hard ... like open notepad ++, find in files (dir : all source files) "stupidfunction(" ... set var true + check var true is hardly "nothing" . empty functions for the purpose of future extension ... maybe, but long-term codebase littering with random crap is not a good thing. If anything, it tells you how much the rest has to be refactored --

    But yes ... hardly a good WTF.

    Not as simple as that. You may find there are many files in CVS which would all need checking out and fixing, and a number of those may be checked out to someone else.

  • Born Texas Proud (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Born Texas Proud:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Born Texas Proud:
    Matt Westwood:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Born Texas Proud:
    Jay:
    Gordon Freeman:
    Someone is going to say there probably was some code inside that was removed (probably when all of the email list's mail providers moved the company's domain to their antispam filter).

    That someone is then going to say this is not a WTF, because whatever has an explanation cannot be a WTF, for some reason.

    Ditto. I never have understood those comments. If something started out right and then someone changed it to be stupid, that may explain how it got to be stupid, but it doesn't make it not-stupid.

    Like, driving drunk is stupid. If you explain to me that you only drove drunk because you were too intoxicated at the time to realize that this could lead to an accident, that doesn't make it any less stupid.

    I can't believe all of you self-righteous jerks who try to tell me what is and what is not ok to do inside of my own vehicle. You don't see me swerving all over the road while I attempt to send text-messages traveling at highway speed, but it's perfectly acceptable for me to enjoy a cocktail within the confines of my automobile.
    Hell yeah! If I want to take everyone else's life into my own two drunk hands, that is my God given right!

    Sounds good to me. Less Americans in the world.

    Would you rather have a short, happy life or a long dull one?
    If you want to die young, go shoot yourself in a field somewhere. Just be sure you don't take anybody else down with your selfish ass.

    Quite frankly, the sooner people with your attitude disappear, the better.

    Shoot myself in the field...where does the fun come in?

    Seriously, if you haven't operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated, you haven't lived.

    If you think you're really fucking hard, go and drive at 100mph through a built-up area, drunk as a skunk, with heavy metal blaring out of the wound-down windows at 11:30 at night in Saudi Arabia. Then come and mew-mew-mew my-pussy-hurts they won't let me drive drunk, snivel waah.
    Saudi Arabia? You poor bastard.

  • WTF (unregistered)
  • (cs)

    Born Texas Proud got lots of bites.

  • mtj (unregistered)

    this code makes complete sense

    if an exception is thrown by the calling code on obtaining a return value of true, it will bubble back up the stack and be caught by the function. this will cause the function to re-return false, which the calling code can use as an indication not to run the exception-throwing section of code again

    it's a clever and robust way of preventing the potential creation of an email list from causing errors

    anyone should know that

    guys..

    srsly...

    disapproving frown

  • Really (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Some unimportant text
    [image]
  • (cs) in reply to tim
    tim:
    cacarpenter:
    Steve:
    Anketam:
    It could fail if File Not Found or in this case Email List Not Found *nods sagely*

    I'm guessing you're being sarcastic or something, but just in case you're not - how could it possibly fail? It's an empty function, it doesn't try to load a file or an email list.

    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_.aspx

    zomg - that was over 6 years ago :-O
    That may be as it may -- but it still never gets old.

  • Seriously (unregistered)
  • The Mr. T Experience (unregistered)

    So let me get this straight: The kids used to be obsessed with kitties, but now they're all about the ponies? Trying to keep abreast...

  • Haha (unregistered)
  • (cs) in reply to The Mr. T Experience
    The Mr. T Experience:
    So let me get this straight: The kids used to be obsessed with kitties, but now they're all about the ponies? Trying to keep abreast...

    I'm trying to decide if it's a bit of gender confusion or if it's a hip ironic thing or if it's just a fadlet, but yeah, "my little pony" is the new whatever the old thing was. For a few people, at least. Obviously enough of them to decorate a web site. Nothing adblock can't handle, though.

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to Gordon Freeman
    Gordon Freeman:
    Joe:
    If "return true" throws an exception that must be handled, why wouldn't you also handle the exception that "return false" might also generate?

    Unless...

    the object-oriented language defines false as a primitive, but true needs to be an instantiated object (which as a piece of syntactic sugar happens without an explicit operation - return true works the same as return true() or return new true. Much like what some languages appear to do with numeric constants: 5.ToString() anyone?)

    In which case, TRWTF is the language.

    --Joe

    It's VB.NET, don't you see?

    About exhausting a meme, I think the best way to kill a meme is to explain it to death.

    That's because immature teenagers who use them are just looking for a cryptic language that only them and their bunch (or gang or bros or whatever vocabulary there is nowadays for it) understand, thus reinforcing the impression of sharing an identity. Obviously if you explain all of it (typically by writing a meme wiki), everyone outside the group can understand it, so the meme does not fill that role and is left only with its inner humoristic potential. Most memes don't have one, so they just die.

    In Soviet Russia, memes explain you !

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    The Mr. T Experience:
    So let me get this straight: The kids used to be obsessed with kitties, but now they're all about the ponies? Trying to keep abreast...

    I'm trying to decide if it's a bit of gender confusion or if it's a hip ironic thing or if it's just a fadlet, but yeah, "my little pony" is the new whatever the old thing was. For a few people, at least. Obviously enough of them to decorate a web site. Nothing adblock can't handle, though.

    OFFS My Little Fucking Pony is so last fucking millennium. I'm surprised you're not all over the form with Pokemon. And if one more person looks pityingly at me and says, "But it's retro" I'l retro his fucking teeth down his fucking neck.

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    trtrwtf:
    The Mr. T Experience:
    So let me get this straight: The kids used to be obsessed with kitties, but now they're all about the ponies? Trying to keep abreast...

    I'm trying to decide if it's a bit of gender confusion or if it's a hip ironic thing or if it's just a fadlet, but yeah, "my little pony" is the new whatever the old thing was. For a few people, at least. Obviously enough of them to decorate a web site. Nothing adblock can't handle, though.

    OFFS My Little Fucking Pony is so last fucking millennium. I'm surprised you're not all over the form with Pokemon. And if one more person looks pityingly at me and says, "But it's retro" I'l retro his fucking teeth down his fucking neck.

    I'm sorry, I thought you got it. Of course it's meant to be retro. What else would it be, when you go sporting an affectation from thirty years ago? Yes, it's idiotic, but is that really new to you?

    You want to see it get worse? One word: "brony". As in bro/pony.

  • Sasuke (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    OFFS My Little Fucking Pony is so last fucking millennium. I'm surprised you're not all over the form with Naruto. And if one more person looks pityingly at me and says, "But it's *retro*" I'l retro his fucking teeth down his fucking neck.

    FTFY

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    The Mr. T Experience:
    So let me get this straight: The kids used to be obsessed with kitties, but now they're all about the ponies? Trying to keep abreast...

    I'm trying to decide if it's a bit of gender confusion or if it's a hip ironic thing or if it's just a fadlet, but yeah, "my little pony" is the new whatever the old thing was. For a few people, at least. Obviously enough of them to decorate a web site. Nothing adblock can't handle, though.

    If irony is what they're going for, may I suggest the "Care Bears".

  • Bronie (unregistered)

    Okay some people showed how "smart" they are.

    Now to the good part

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXoYK4b_q24

  • Hater (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    If irony is what they're going for, may I suggest the "Care Bears".

    No you can't suggest ACTUALLY SHUT UP AND GET OFF MY SITE forever

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    You want to see it get worse?
    No...
    trtrwtf:
    One word: "brony". As in bro/pony.
    Die. Now.
  • (cs) in reply to Hater
    Hater:
    frits:
    If irony is what they're going for, may I suggest the "Care Bears".

    No you can't suggest ACTUALLY SHUT UP AND GET OFF MY SITE forever

    If this was your site, I would think you could just ban me. Or is community server that fucked up?

    It seems as thought we have a problem here. You want something from me, but offer nothing in return.

    Back to my previously scheduled fucktardery...

  • RRDY (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Public Function AFewGoodMails() As Boolean
    Try
        Return True
    Catch ex As Exception
        'YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!
        Return False
    End Try
End Function

    I know I'm late to the party on this one, but I just wanted to say how happy I was to see this comment.

    Captcha: vereor: Kind of like truth, only less truthy.

  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to Hater
    Hater:
    frits:
    If irony is what they're going for, may I suggest the "Care Bears".

    No you can't suggest ACTUALLY SHUT UP AND GET OFF MY SITE forever

    That would only make sense if your name was Alex Papadimoloulis (or something close to that). In which case you would just IP Ban frits and live happily afterwards.

    Since you're not and since you can't, I guess we're stuck with you bitching about him for all eternity. ¬¬

  • (cs) in reply to Hater
    Hater:
    frits:
    If irony is what they're going for, may I suggest the "Care Bears".
    No you can't suggest ACTUALLY SHUT UP AND GET OFF MY SITE forever
    No school today? Or did you just miss the bus?
  • (cs)

    Oh hey dudes. I don't have anything to say right now. I'm just trying to draw flames.

    So how's everybody's day going?

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Oh hey dudes. I don't have anything to say right now. I'm just trying to draw flames.
    Shouldn't take long - usually about 5-10 minutes for him to respond. That's dedication. Like when you had Bert Glanstrom stalking you, way back when.
    frits:
    So how's everybody's day going?
    I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast. It was pretty okay I guess.
  • (cs) in reply to boog
    boog:
    frits:
    Oh hey dudes. I don't have anything to say right now. I'm just trying to draw flames.
    Shouldn't take long - usually about 5-10 minutes for him to respond. That's dedication. Like when you had Bert Glanstrom stalking you, way back when.
    Ah yes. Good times. I wouldn't be surprised if Hater and Bert were one in the same.
  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    So how's everybody's day going?

    Sharepoint.

  • Gordon Freeman (unregistered) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    frits:
    So how's everybody's day going?

    Sharepoint.

    Sorry.

    Captcha: genitus. Seriously??

  • (cs) in reply to Gordon Freeman
    Gordon Freeman:
    trtrwtf:
    frits:
    So how's everybody's day going?

    Sharepoint.

    Sorry.

    Yeah, it sucks donkey balls.

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    Gordon Freeman:
    trtrwtf:
    frits:
    So how's everybody's day going?
    Sharepoint.
    Sorry.
    Yeah, it sucks donkey balls.
    Oh, so we're baiting Zunelander too, are we?
  • (cs) in reply to boog
    boog:
    trtrwtf:
    Gordon Freeman:
    trtrwtf:
    frits:
    So how's everybody's day going?
    Sharepoint.
    Sorry.
    Yeah, it sucks donkey balls.
    Oh, so we're baiting Zunelander too, are we?

    No, we're bitching about Sharepoint. The only thing that can be said about it is that it sucks donkey balls. If Zunelander sucks donkey balls as well, I guess that's his problem.

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