• warp (unregistered) in reply to haveworld

    you obviously have no clue how bad the first inceptions of domino were...

  • (cs) in reply to Kodi
    Kodi:
    GoatCheez:
    Bah! Everyone knows that you NEVER need more than 128 characters in any line of text! The TRUE wtf is that you didn't format the page in word, print it out, place the print out on a wooden table, take a digital picture of the print-out on the wooden table.........


    :-)

    Hmmm seems to me that for every WTF that involves the web here restating " place the print out on a wooden table" is now a WTF.  Granted the first few thousand times it was funny, now it's just repetitve and umimaginative.

    ; )


    No!  Don't say that!  Ever since this wooden table phenomenon came about we've seen a marked decrease in the number of "hilarious", "creative" posts like the following:

    <font face="Courier New">
    I just signed up and all you got was this stupid post:

        <font color="#008000">// ZOMG! this Is So funnayz!!exclamation!</font>
        <font color="#0000ff">if</font> (<font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#7fffd4">Paula</font>.Status == FILE_NOT_FOUND)
            <font color="#7fffd4">Console</font>.WriteLine(<font color="#a52a2a">"brillant"</font>);

        <font color="#008000">// This Makes me as fuNner as The last 20 people 'who' Said this combineD$!</font>
        <font color="#0000ff">if</font> (<font color="#0000ff">new</font> <font color="#7fffd4">Goggles</font>().Do() == null)
            <font color="#7fffd4">Console</font>.WriteLine(<font color="#a52a2a">"my eyes!"</font>);

        <font color="#008000">// Hello, world!  Marvel at my genius!</font>
        <font color="#7fffd4">Console</font>.WriteLine(<font color="#a52a2a">"Some string that, for no particular reason, is unbelievably hilarious when written to the console."</font>);

    </font><font face="Courier New"><font color="#7fffd4"></font>    <font color="#008000">// XEmL is crap at programmings!</font>
        <font color="#7fffd4">Console</font>.WriteLine(<font color="#a52a2a">"<someNonsensicalRootElement>"</font>);
        <font color="#7fffd4">Console</font>.WriteLine(<font color="#a52a2a">"    <!-- Haha!  Is bl0ated! -->"</font>);
        <font color="#7fffd4">Console</font>.WriteLine(<font color="#a52a2a">"    <look at=\"this\">C++ is better for these kinds of tings.,.</look>"</font>);
        <font color="#7fffd4">Console</font>.WriteLine(<font color="#a52a2a">"</someNonsensicalRootElement"</font>);
    </font><font face="Courier New">
        <font color="#008000">// Microsoft is suck!  My internets told me sew!</font>
        <font color="#0000ff">goto</font> Hell;



    CAPTCHA: computer

    So true!  That was obviously meant for me because, ironically, I actually use a computer.  <INSERT ANOTHER EXTREMELY LOOSE, POORLY-CONCEIVED CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CAPTCHA AND MY LIFE HERE>!  This site knows me so well!  It's like magic!

    </font>
    By contrast, the picture on the wooden table bit is not nearly as played out.  Give it a few weeks.  Then it will be.  And maybe, just maybe, they'll find another equine carcass to beat long before that happens.  Then all we'll have to do is get everyone to stop repeating what's already been said in five previous comments and that the computed-related CAPTCHA words are not strange coincidences that need to be documented in each and every post and we'll be gold.

    Gold, I say.
  • (cs) in reply to Raider

    Raider:
    Yet another one of those things you see a lot of these days ... Companies developing proprietary tools for in-house usage, that end up turning out like crap.  For example, far too often do I see really shitty SDKs coming out of companies that I develop interfaces and/or drivers for to support with our security systems, because when they originally built the SDK it was in-house, generally hidden from most of the developers, etc, and instead of doing it right the first time, they end up releasing the shitty code as what becomes their SDK, then force people like me to spend many nights doing error trapping, bug reporting, and writing wrappers to compensate for their idiocy.

    I have seen this and participated in it, shamefully, however I don't believe that it was my fault. The company intranet site was in very poor shape, having not had an upgrade, redesign, reorganization, or anything in over 5 years (yes, I know some intranets are just naturally that good that they could stand the test of time, however this wasn't one of them). Mind you, this is an IT/IS services company, one that relies heavily on information exchange and needed to house hundreds of pages of differing types of documentation. You would naturally think that anything that could be done to ease, speed up, or make using the intranet more efficient would be cheerfully embraced....wrong.

    Management subscribed to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" theory, with "broke" evidently being defined as totally unusable. No matter that the bulk of the intranet resided on about 5 different pages, each only using about 20% of the available screen real-estate, and that common GUI elements like color were ignored (95% of the pages were black/white), no central navigation system was present, etc., but to them that was not broke.

    So, ignorantly, in my spare time I spent many hours developing prototypes of how much better the intranet could be. Eventually, I convinced enough of the management what a clusterfuck we had, and they hesistantly gave me the go-ahead to rework it. Was I afforded additional help? Negative. Was I afforded any tools? Negative.

    So I worked, and I toiled, and I did it all. Being under constant pressure from day 1 for the "go live" date, I was reluctant to give them an exact timeframe due to the amount of work, yet in it's place I dutifully reported my progress once a week, each time also outlining what was left to do.

    My first goal was to simply get a working version up so that beta testing, bug reporting, usability testing, etc. could be done. However, as soon as they saw I had a working version, they cut me off from the project and released it into the wild. Well, so much for documentation, GUI's for the backend, code cleanup, streamlining, bug fixes...you know, all that "useless" stuff. I wasn't allowed to finish the project like I would've liked to (or those coming after me certaintly would've liked).

    It all boils down to bad management.

  • (cs) in reply to Matt

    Anonymous:
    Is it me, or are the WTFs shifting more and more from code snippits typed by an individual, to grand f-ups on the management and company level?  What kind of programmer would think that this system is better than writing and delivering plain HTML, and design it so poorly at that?

    Maybe so, but they all seem to stem from the people that relied upon wrote memorization, brown-nosing, copy/pasting coding answers, and using the "gift of gab" to get their degrees, and then eventually using the same techniques to convince someone to hire them. Those people could care less about coding, much less coding properly, and here on T-D-WTF we get to see the results.
     

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Ash
    Anonymous:
    "As it turns out, The Tool is proprietary and a highly-guarded trade secret. Because of such a high turnaround, they can't let just anyone see the source code. Only developers with tenure of at least two years get that pleasure."

    -- Image what you would discover after working there for 5 years...

    Scientology anyone?

  • Mr Steve (unregistered) in reply to Employee of a stupidly large company to remain unnamed
    Employee of a stupidly large company to remain unnamed:
    That sounds dangerously close to developing web applications with Domino.Not quite...but close.

    NOOOOO, DON'T MENTION IT, DOMINO HTML HEHEHEHA HAAOHAOHA NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. ITT'SSSS TRYING TO GET ME NOOOO I THINK ME IT WANT ESCAPE GET OUT NOW!!!!! HAPPY THOUGHTS HAPPYS THOUGHTS FLOWERS BIRDIE SNOWFLAKE TERRORIST ABSTRACTION 200 HAPPY LINES TO MAKE A TABLE OH SH1T

    DOMINNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    (i used to develop 'web applications' in domino)

  • Displaced (unregistered) in reply to Jeff S

    I would love to have nothing better to do with my time than to point out that other people have pointed out typos.

    </irony>
  • mroblivious1bmf (unregistered)

    DaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMN!

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