The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Can't tell if you're pretending to be a jerk or you really are. If you spent more than 1 second reading Wikipedia to settle a dispute pertaining to Game Boy on the Internet, you're too twisted to be worth listening to.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

ais523:
Arguably, this is simply an attempt to document which exceptions can be thrown. (Java even has "syntactic sugar" for this, the "throws ..." next to a method prototype, which states that the method either generates, or continues to throw, exceptions of various types rather than handling them itself.) So the only large WTF I see here is that it was done with redundant code rather than with a comment.

That's pretty much what I was thinking.

It's also possible that the author may have had the intention of going back later and adding some code to handle exceptions later and so he left "stubs" for that purpose.

Zolcos · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Lefty Middlewright:
Can't tell if you're pretending to be a jerk or you really are. If you spent more than 1 second reading Wikipedia to settle a dispute pertaining to Game Boy on the Internet, you're too twisted to be worth listening to.

Haters gonna hate...

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

The Nerve:
So then I think this would be the fighting monkey pattern.

THAT'S IT! I have had it with these monkey fighting code snippets on this Monday-Friday website!

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

anon:
Sylver:
Nice!
Still, acording to Wikipedia, Pokemon came out in 96. If Kyle was 12 when he watched Pokemon, that would make him 26... maybe you're just getting old. ;)

And if you'd read more than the first sentence of the Wikipedia article, you'd have seen that the Game Boy game came out in Japan in 1996, didn't make it to the US until 1998. However, he said it reminded him of watching Pokemon, not playing, and the show didn't hit the US till 1999. So if he was 12 in 1999 (which might actually be too old to have watched the show) then he's 23, and wet behind the ears.

Yes, but why assume he lives in the US?

Either way, 23 is old enough to get drunk on your lawn legally. That makes him old enough to be a full participant on TDWTF, especially if he codes while drunk.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Proposed title: When the Great Dao is Lost...

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Sylver:
anon:
Sylver:
Nice!
Still, acording to Wikipedia, Pokemon came out in 96. If Kyle was 12 when he watched Pokemon, that would make him 26... maybe you're just getting old. ;)

And if you'd read more than the first sentence of the Wikipedia article, you'd have seen that the Game Boy game came out in Japan in 1996, didn't make it to the US until 1998. However, he said it reminded him of watching Pokemon, not playing, and the show didn't hit the US till 1999. So if he was 12 in 1999 (which might actually be too old to have watched the show) then he's 23, and wet behind the ears.

Yes, but why assume he lives in the US?

Either way, 23 is old enough to get drunk on your lawn legally. That makes him old enough to be a full participant on TDWTF, especially if he codes while drunk.

You're right. I'm not from US.

Maybe he's jealous 'cause when he's a child he only have Looney Tunes shit to see. And f**k it all. I'm not giving a shit, why you guys are?

Also, the first "program" that I've made was a bot-programmation (C++ like) for an online game, and I was 12years old that time. (Yes, I was watching pokemon in that age.)

Captcha: opto. I opto not to discuss this anymore. Back to WTF pls. :)

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

TRWTF is a function that potentially throws so many exceptions.

Captcha: eros -- shot from a bow

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

anon:
Sylver:
Leo:
Kyle Z.:
LightStyx:
IndexOutOfRangeException! I choose you! *throws exception* Use InnerException now!

Hahaha nice post.. reminded of my childhood watching pokemon!

Captcha: luptatum. maybe a new pokemon? now there's 7894798478974

If you are young enough to have watched Pokemon in your childhood, you're too young to be worth listening to. Get off the Internet and go "text" or whatever it is you young people do these days. Come back when you were born earlier. ...

Nice!

Still, acording to Wikipedia, Pokemon came out in 96. If Kyle was 12 when he watched Pokemon, that would make him 26... maybe you're just getting old. ;)

And if you'd read more than the first sentence of the Wikipedia article, you'd have seen that the Game Boy game came out in Japan in 1996, didn't make it to the US until 1998. However, he said it reminded him of watching Pokemon, not playing, and the show didn't hit the US till 1999. So if he was 12 in 1999 (which might actually be too old to have watched the show) then he's 23, and wet behind the ears.

In middle school, in '97, we used Pokemon cartoons (and others) in our Japanese class. When it came out here, I was amused how "Pikachu: you are the distinct individual [whom] I have chosen!" was translated.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Kyle Z.:
Maybe he's jealous 'cause when he's a child he only have Looney Tunes shit to see.

Okay, now you're going over the line. Looney Tunes isn't "shit", Looney Tunes is the shit! (gotta get the originals, though. The sanitized versions are useless.)

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Does C-pound have operator overloading? Could "Throw" potentially add something like the current method name to a list of methods visited by the Exception?

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

*:

The Real WTF is that they didn't use BobX.

<xbobfuncdef name="GetDAO">
  <xbobtry>
    <xbobfuncreturn>
      <xbobcall func="Activator.CreateInstance">
    <xbobendfuncreturn>
    <xbobcatch type="ArgumentNullException">
      <xbobthrow>
    <xbobendcatch>
    ...
    <xbobcatch type="TypeLoadException">
      <xbobthrow>
    <xbobendcatch>
  <xbobendtry>
<xbobfuncenddef>

+1

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

No finally always runs, I think the feature Oneway is looking for is called a try-catch block.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Darn. thedailywtf-laginess is back.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

CIIWri3:
TRWTF is a function that potentially throws so many exceptions.
Captcha: eros -- shot from a bow

A function should throw as many exceptions as required, one for each error state it has to deal with. There is nothing unusual about a function that throws a lot of exceptions; just consider something simple like File.Create(). Imagine how many potential exceptions there are from this one function - file read-only, file in use, user has no permissions, filename invalid, path invalid, path too long, etc. etc. If it has many different failure scenarios it will throw many different exceptions, there is nothing remotely unusual or wrong about this.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

CAPTCHA: similis:
Does C-pound have operator overloading? Could "Throw" potentially add something like the current method name to a list of methods visited by the Exception?

In short, no. Good thinking though.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Oneway:
I would vote for introducing a new language function that would reexecute code that raised the error, but in a more 'forceful' way. Something like:
try { //Mess up code here } catch (Exception $e) { // handle exception } try_harder { // execute again. }

You mean like: try { //Mess up code here } catch (Exception $e) { try_harder { // execute again. catch (Exception $e) { // handle exception } }

somedude · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Abdiel:
do || !do;
if (false) try {}

There is no try, only do.

frits · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

wtf:
Kyle Z.:
Maybe he's jealous 'cause when he's a child he only have Looney Tunes shit to see.

Okay, now you're going over the line. Looney Tunes isn't "shit", Looney Tunes is the shit! (gotta get the originals, though. The sanitized versions are useless.)

Oh sure, way to go Hitler. Maybe we should bring back the old Popeye episodes where the Japanese are depicted as semi-clever, buck-toothed monkey-men, too. While we're at it, we could revert back to the old name and image for Cook's Chicken.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

frits:
wtf:
Kyle Z.:
Maybe he's jealous 'cause when he's a child he only have Looney Tunes shit to see.

Okay, now you're going over the line. Looney Tunes isn't "shit", Looney Tunes is the shit! (gotta get the originals, though. The sanitized versions are useless.)

Oh sure, way to go Hitler. Maybe we should bring back the old Popeye episodes where the Japanese are depicted as semi-clever, buck-toothed monkey-men, too. While we're at it, we could revert back to the old name and image for Cook's Chicken.

Exactly! Thank God for a voice of reason round here, cheers for the support frits.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

CoderDan:

*:

The Real WTF is that they didn't use BobX.

<xbobfuncdef name="GetDAO">
  <xbobtry>
    <xbobfuncreturn>
      <xbobcall func="Activator.CreateInstance">
    <xbobendfuncreturn>
    <xbobcatch type="ArgumentNullException">
      <xbobthrow>
    <xbobendcatch>
    ...
    <xbobcatch type="TypeLoadException">
      <xbobthrow>
    <xbobendcatch>
  <xbobendtry>
<xbobfuncenddef>

+1

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

frits:
wtf:
Kyle Z.:
Maybe he's jealous 'cause when he's a child he only have Looney Tunes shit to see.

Okay, now you're going over the line. Looney Tunes isn't "shit", Looney Tunes is the shit! (gotta get the originals, though. The sanitized versions are useless.)

Oh sure, way to go Hitler. Maybe we should bring back the old Popeye episodes where the Japanese are depicted as semi-clever, buck-toothed monkey-men, too. While we're at it, we could revert back to the old name and image for Cook's Chicken.

Oh, you're talking about the old episodes, with the racist depictions of black characters? "Coal Black and de Sebbin Dwarves", that sort of thing? That's not what I was referring to. There aren't sanitized versions of those, you can't get them at all (officially). It would be hard to clean those up. You can find them, if you look, but they're not actually that funny.

I'm talking about the clumsy editing that was forced on them in the 80s and 90s - cutting out the scenes that were taken as "violent", and destroying the rhythm of the cartoon. The expurgated versions are about as funny as a mackerel.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

wtf:
Exactly! Thank God for a voice of reason round here, cheers for the support frits.

What a coincidence! Is your name William T. Friedenhoffer as well?

frits · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

wtf:
frits:
wtf:
Kyle Z.:
Maybe he's jealous 'cause when he's a child he only have Looney Tunes shit to see.

Okay, now you're going over the line. Looney Tunes isn't "shit", Looney Tunes is the shit! (gotta get the originals, though. The sanitized versions are useless.)

Oh sure, way to go Hitler. Maybe we should bring back the old Popeye episodes where the Japanese are depicted as semi-clever, buck-toothed monkey-men, too. While we're at it, we could revert back to the old name and image for Cook's Chicken.

Oh, you're talking about the old episodes, with the racist depictions of black characters? "Coal Black and de Sebbin Dwarves", that sort of thing? That's not what I was referring to. There aren't sanitized versions of those, you can't get them at all (officially). It would be hard to clean those up. You can find them, if you look, but they're not actually that funny.

I'm talking about the clumsy editing that was forced on them in the 80s and 90s - cutting out the scenes that were taken as "violent", and destroying the rhythm of the cartoon. The expurgated versions are about as funny as a mackerel.

My bad. I wasn't even aware of the "edited for violence" versions. I haven't watched Looney Tunes for ~25 years.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

frits:

My bad. I wasn't even aware of the "edited for violence" versions. I haven't watch Looney Tunes for ~25 years.

I haven't seen them in a while myself. Maybe I'll try to dig them up - I still think they're some of the best comedy America has come up with.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

frits:
wtf:
Kyle Z.:
Maybe he's jealous 'cause when he's a child he only have Looney Tunes shit to see.

Okay, now you're going over the line. Looney Tunes isn't "shit", Looney Tunes is the shit! (gotta get the originals, though. The sanitized versions are useless.)

Oh sure, way to go Hitler. Maybe we should bring back the old Popeye episodes where the Japanese are depicted as semi-clever, buck-toothed monkey-men, too. While we're at it, we could revert back to the old name and image for Cook's Chicken.

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." -Godwin

Callin · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Gotta catch 'em all.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

The Real:
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." -Godwin

In this case, if you've ever seen the episodes Frits thought I was referring to, you'll understand how a Hitler reference seemed appropriate. They're pretty grotesque. If I ran into someone who watched them for fun, I'd be a little concerned too.

frits · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

You're so right!!! They should name a law after that guy based on that principle.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

You jest, but this type of coding is catching on.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

catch and rethrow? Looks more like a fumble to me!

tOmcOlins · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Mr. Jackson:
The Nerve:
So then I think this would be the fighting monkey pattern.

THAT'S IT! I have had it with these monkey fighting code snippets on this Monday-Friday website!

Watched SOAP on cable, did you?

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

gotta catch 'em all. pokemon.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

HAH:
gotta catch 'em all. pokemon.

I assume you mean venereal diseases from boinking pokemon?

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

I think this is called the Pokémon antipattern, gotta catch 'em all!

RogerC · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

somedude:
Abdiel:
do || !do;
if (false) try {}

There is no try, only do.

Lacking in Star Wars familiarity somedude is.

Do or do not. There is no try.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

The Nerve:
Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

zeno:
The Nerve:
Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Makes it better because.. there is no wtf here. More like elitist coders making fun of something that there is nothing wrong with because they want to pretend they know something that has little to do with reality.

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

drachenstern · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

try {

Anonymous Coward:
zeno:
The Nerve:
Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

Is it just me, or are these comments already starting to repeat?

} catch (Exception comment) { throw new CommentException ("FileNotFound", comment); } finally { MakeUnfunnyCommentOfMyOwn(); }

Zylon · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

LightStyx:
IndexOutOfRangeException! I choose you! *throws exception* Use InnerException now!

It's super effective!

2010-08-04 Reply Admin

Zach:
At least the dev didn't just catch the general exception.
Public Function GetDAO(ByVal typeName As String) As Object
    Try
        Return Activator.CreateInstance(System.Type.GetType(typeName, True, True))
    Catch ex As Exception
        Throw
    End Try
End Function
But if all you're going to do is throw it there's no point in catching. This isn't baseball.

And yet the result is nearly identical...

Scarlet Manuka · 2010-08-04 Reply Admin

John:
The WTF is it doesnt handle FileNotFoundException. And it should also get the list of exceptions from an XML file. obviously.

But then how do you handle XMLFileNotFoundException?

Well of course you need a separate exception for XML files not being found. XML files are likely to be much more important to the business process than regular files, so an XMLFileNotFoundException is usually going to be more serious than a FileNotFoundException.

2010-08-05 Reply Admin

Zach:
But if all you're going to do is throw it there's no point in catching. This isn't baseball.

If you're stepping through it with a debuggerer, you'll see which exception was thrown or you can set a breakpoint for a particular exception.

2010-08-05 Reply Admin

, I was amused how "Pikachu: you are the distinct individual [whom] I have chosen!" was translated.

In Danish "Pikachu" could mean "Dick Sneeze"

2010-08-05 Reply Admin

wtf:
Kyle Z.:
Maybe he's jealous 'cause when he's a child he only have Looney Tunes shit to see.

Okay, now you're going over the line. Looney Tunes isn't "shit", Looney Tunes is the shit! (gotta get the originals, though. The sanitized versions are useless.)

I was about to say, when I was 12, I was watching Speed Racer. But then I remembered that hipster college pukes would watch that show in the 1990s, too.

2010-08-05 Reply Admin

if(going_to_raise_x-wing_from_swamp) { /* try { do('raise x-wing from swamp'); } catch (InsufficientForceException $e) { throw $e; } */ // Do, or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

do('raise x-wing from swamp');

} else { // leave it there }

Cbuttius · 2010-08-05 Reply Admin

try_again would be very useful in C++ where you don't get any context as to where your exception was thrown.

When you catch an exception get it to go back so you can trace through this time and see where it got thrown.

Try... Catch-em-all

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