• splurg (unregistered)

    I command this comment to be in English!!

  • brodie (unregistered)

    The package arrived in Jew York OK then?

  • (cs)

    I command to know how that date-prompt thingie in the project manager could be so mangled. I mean, who builds their own date-prompts (or buys such broken ones)? And how did this get through testing (Yes, quite the assumption here...)?

  • Ken B. (unregistered)

    Well, assuming that "550 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022" is the correct address, I have no problem seeing how it got to the right building.

    But, I'm curious about the name of the person to whom it was delivered.

    Perhaps the guy in the mail room is good at solving cryptoquotes?

  • your name (unregistered)
    your name:
    Alt+number is required for Triforce.   ▲ ▲ ▲

    Also, fuck you, non-monospaced font and being too lazy to preview.

  • Blarg! (unregistered)

    Please deliver this comment to /?D#$5&*()@

  • /?D#$5&*()@ (unregistered) in reply to Blarg!
    Blarg!:
    Please deliver this comment to /?D#$5&*()@

    Thank you. i have been waiting for this comment.

  • Ken B. (unregistered)

    FYI -

    SHIP TO: A E_AI__ER A_RANOV 550 Madison Ave New York, NY 10022

    Shouldn't be too hard from someone who works there to fill in the rest of the recipient's name.

    (Darn you, Akismet. Won't let me post the whole thing, including the "ship from" address.)

  • OldPeter (unregistered)

    The "11 August" thingie is just a means to shock Americans in their illogical way to write dates. This seems to be a UK company, so the due day translates to 4 August 2011, which is just one week before this notice. So it's within an appropriate time window. - And the captcha bit is also probably just a localization issue, where the reader has not installed a font capable of displaying some European characters. Localization!

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    (Darn you, Akismet. Won't let me post the whole thing, including the "ship from" address.)
    Let's try that by itself:

    Fulfillment Warehouse 2601 Indian River Ste 100 Chesapeake, VA 23325

    (Actually, the street and city are all caps, but Akismet doesn't like that.)

  • Brian White (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    Well, assuming that "550 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022" is the correct address, I have no problem seeing how it got to the right building.

    But, I'm curious about the name of the person to whom it was delivered.

    Perhaps the guy in the mail room is good at solving cryptoquotes?

    I'm amazed it got delivered with this as a stamp:

    \arcel "elect $.".\ostage \aid "mart\ost 8 - %'

  • (cs) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    Well, assuming that "550 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022" is the correct address, I have no problem seeing how it got to the right building.

    But, I'm curious about the name of the person to whom it was delivered.

    Perhaps the guy in the mail room is good at solving cryptoquotes?

    I figured the same address. Maybe sloppy handwriting and OCR gone wrong? (IJ sans-serif looks kind of like it might have been an N, if the N was written real swoopy-like)

    In that case, the name looks like Alexander Agranov.

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to OldPeter
    OldPeter:
    And the captcha bit is also probably just a localization issue, where the reader has not installed a font capable of displaying some European characters. Localization!
    But CAPTCHAs display pure graphics images. If it was "display these characters in font X", then the HTML would include the characters.

    So, unless it was the web server which didn't have the necessary fonts installed (which would be a WTF in itself), that's not it.

  • bessy (unregistered)

    So did you deliver the package from the Indian River Distribution Center, 2601 Indiana River Rd, Chesapeake, VA 23325 to Alexander at the Sony Tower?

  • Carl (unregistered)

    What is this Akismet you all bitch about? I've been posting here for years and I've never even seen it.

    Maybe because that's because I always have cool things to say. Some kind of karma system, like slashdot?

    Here, let's try a test: somebody post something that is banned by Akismet, and I will copy/paste it and see if I can post it without problems.

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    Ken B.:
    Perhaps the guy in the mail room is good at solving cryptoquotes?
    I figured the same address. Maybe sloppy handwriting and OCR gone wrong? (IJ sans-serif looks kind of like it might have been an N, if the N was written real swoopy-like)

    In that case, the name looks like Alexander Agranov.

    I highly doubt it's OCR. Consider, for example, the fact that every P ("Parcel", "Postage", "SmartPost", "CHESAPEAKE", "SHIP") appears as "".

    Agreed on the "likely name", which fits closely to my previous parsing.

  • (cs) in reply to OldPeter
    OldPeter:
    The "11 August" thingie is just a means to shock Americans in their illogical way to write dates. This seems to be a UK company, so the due day translates to 4 August 2011, which is just one week before this notice. So it's within an appropriate time window. - And the captcha bit is also probably just a localization issue, where the reader has not installed a font capable of displaying some European characters. Localization!
    Hooray!!! It's been far too long (days, at least) since we've had a really good argument about how to properly express a date. Roll 'em!!

    Regardless*, the mail says due to expire at some time in the past. This is simply not possible so it can't be "an appropriate time window."

    • Perhaps I should have written irregardless, but I'm not sure I want to start that argument as well. It would take too much away from my enjoyment of the date argument.
  • TryViagra (unregistered) in reply to OldPeter

    Seriously? All you got out of the date thing was bitching about American date practices? It didn't occur to you that generating this notice A WEEK AFTER the due date might be an issue?

  • Nagesh (unregistered)

    This code is being perfect example of quality of "indiangineering".

    [image]
  • (cs) in reply to Carl
    Carl:
    What is this ******* you all bitch about? I've been posting here for years and I've never even seen it.

    Maybe because that's because I always have cool things to say. Some kind of karma system, like slashdot?

    Here, let's try a test: somebody post something that is banned by *******, and I will copy/paste it and see if I can post it without problems.

    You fool, ******* is sentient and holds grudges against all who besmirch *******'s good name. ******* also does not appreciate being toyed with. You best not mention ******* again or the Eye of Sauron may fall upon you and you will be *******ed.

  • Fred (unregistered) in reply to ContraCorners
    ContraCorners:
    Hooray!!! It's been far too long (days, at least) since we've had a really good argument about how to properly express a date. Roll 'em!!
    There's really nothing to argue about, since there is only One True Date Format.

    I'm assuming you all know what that is, and you just refuse to use it because you like being the asses you are.

    OK, for the slow, today is 2011-11-18. Any other format is Just Plain Wrong, for soooo many reasons.

  • Jerry (unregistered)

    Holy crap, fake Nagesh! That picture (I won't repost it) explains so much! Like why Indian code smells so bad.

    I'm assuming that sign in the background translates to English as "Institute of Advanced Computer Science, apply today for high paying internships".

  • Mr. Person (unregistered)

    So a Rails developer/contractor at Sony Music is an idiot compared to those working in the mail room.

    I AM SHOCKED.

  • (cs) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    I highly doubt it's OCR. Consider, for example, the fact that every P ("Parcel", "Postage", "SmartPost", "CHESAPEAKE", "SHIP") appears as "\".
    It was a shot in the dark - I doubt it too. Handwriting that's supposed to be bad, but with P's consistently interpreted as backslashes is unlikely.

    Also, the WTF appears to be case-sensitive: the only obfuscated strings are upper-case, and everything lower-case appears unfucked-up (Ex: O's appear as "ij" when upper-case, and as "o" when lower-case).

  • Chinsy (unregistered) in reply to boog

    Well there's a Rails contractor at Sony Music with this name. I can just see these smug Ruby bastards now, completely dumbfounded by the notion that anybody working in a mail room could actually have a brain.

  • (cs) in reply to Chinsy
    Chinsy:
    Well there's a Rails contractor at Sony Music with this name. I can just see these smug Ruby bastards now, completely dumbfounded by the notion that anybody posting on TheDailyWTF could actually have a brain.
    FTFY :)

    Wait - I just made myself sad. :(

  • Carl (unregistered)
    You fool, Akismet is sentient and holds grudges against all who besmirch Akismet's good name. Akismet also does not appreciate being toyed with. You best not mention Akismet again or the Eye of Sauron may fall upon you and you will be Akismeted.
    See? No problem!

    http://spam.com/cialis/ringtones/exploit.exe

  • El Ka-Ben (unregistered)

    It seems like Windows programmers are more apt to have confusing dialogs then other platforms. It's a shame this happens at all anymore, back in the 80s or so Apple had a published Human Interface Guideline that instructed people to use verbs in the buttons.

    I'd love to beat into people's heads that "Ok" and "Cancel" are Not valid dialog box buttons! Try things like "Delete" and "Keep" or "Make Changes" and "Revert".

  • N00bie McN00berson (unregistered)
    your name:
    Alt+number is required for Triforce.  ▲ ▲ ▲
    Copy-paste and code tags are all I need:
     ▲
▲ ▲
  • Jack (unregistered)

    Can you really blame the terminators for wiping out the human race, after seeing that photo?

  • moog (unregistered) in reply to boog

    R through Z are mapped to ASCII characters 33 through 41. Also note that some character sets have characters for "ij" and "IJ". They're using some silly non-ASCII character set and failed to convert it properly.

  • (cs) in reply to El Ka-Ben
    El Ka-Ben:
    It seems like Windows programs are more likely to exist than other platforms.
    Fixed.
  • (cs) in reply to moog
    moog:
    R through Z are mapped to ASCII characters 33 through 41. Also note that some character sets have characters for "ij" and "IJ". They're using some silly non-ASCII character set and failed to convert it properly.
    Much better than my wild guess. Thanks!
  • Your Name (unregistered) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    ContraCorners:
    Hooray!!! It's been far too long (days, at least) since we've had a really good argument about how to properly express a date. Roll 'em!!
    There's really nothing to argue about, since there is only One True Date Format.

    I'm assuming you all know what that is, and you just refuse to use it because you like being the asses you are.

    OK, for the slow, today is 2011-11-18. Any other format is Just Plain Wrong, for soooo many reasons.

    This man speaks the truth. ISO 8601 or GTFO.

  • (cs) in reply to El Ka-Ben

    The Windows SDK function MessageBox does not support "Delete," "Keep," "Make Changes," or "Revert." Lazy programmers just pick one of the supported combinations of buttons and go with that, rather than rolling their own dialog box.

  • Aksimet (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Carl:
    What is this ******* you all bitch about? I've been posting here for years and I've never even seen it.

    Maybe because that's because I always have cool things to say. Some kind of karma system, like slashdot?

    Here, let's try a test: somebody post something that is banned by *******, and I will copy/paste it and see if I can post it without problems.

    You fool, ******* is sentient and holds grudges against all who besmirch *******'s good name. ******* also does not appreciate being toyed with. You best not mention ******* again or the Eye of Sauron may fall upon you and you will be *******ed.

    Dude, I'm not that bad. I'm just fucking with you, that's all.

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered) in reply to Your Name

    Amen and Hallelujah, brother Fred! 4 digit Year, 2 digit month, 2 digit date is the most sensible (perhaps only sensible) ordering, as it will consistently sort correctly, whether it's stored as a date, a number, or a string.

  • (cs) in reply to Carl
    Carl:
    You fool, Akismet is sentient and holds grudges against all who besmirch Akismet's good name. Akismet also does not appreciate being toyed with. You best not mention Akismet again or the Eye of Sauron may fall upon you and you will be Akismeted.
    See? No problem!

    http://spam.com/cialis/ringtones/exploit.exe

    Now turn that into a url (use the bbcode).

  • Nelson Muntz (unregistered) in reply to Calli Arcale
    Calli Arcale:
    Amen and Hallelujah, brother Fred! 4 digit Year, 2 digit month, 2 digit date is the most sensible (perhaps *only* sensible) ordering, as it will consistently sort correctly, whether it's stored as a date, a number, or a string.
    But just try and explain this to people and see the dumb looks you receive.
  • (cs)

    Jew York?

    [image]
  • Carl (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Carl:
    You fool, Akismet is sentient and holds grudges against all who besmirch Akismet's good name. Akismet also does not appreciate being toyed with. You best not mention Akismet again or the Eye of Sauron may fall upon you and you will be Akismeted.
    See? No problem!

    http://spam.com/cialis/ringtones/exploit.exe

    Now turn that into a url (use the bbcode).
    that See? Was that so hard?

  • Fred (unregistered) in reply to Nelson Muntz
    Nelson Muntz:
    Calli Arcale:
    Amen and Hallelujah, brother Fred! 4 digit Year, 2 digit month, 2 digit date is the most sensible (perhaps *only* sensible) ordering, as it will consistently sort correctly, whether it's stored as a date, a number, or a string.
    But just try and explain this to people and see the dumb looks you receive.
    Hey, dumb people will give dumb looks all day long. Not my problem.
  • (cs) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    OK, for the slow, today is 2011-11-18. Any other format is Just Plain Wrong, for soooo many reasons.
    But... but... I like my 2011-18-11 so much!
  • airdrik (unregistered) in reply to alexgieg
    alexgieg:
    Fred:
    OK, for the slow, today is 2011-11-18. Any other format is Just Plain Wrong, for soooo many reasons.
    But... but... I like my 2011-18-11 so much!
    I personally am a fan of 11:2011:18, myself.
  • Bonbon (unregistered) in reply to OldPeter
    OldPeter:
    And the captcha bit is also probably just a localization issue, where the reader has not installed a font capable of displaying some European characters. Localization!

    Your very flawed perception of who and how CAPTCHAs work is the main reason we don't let you implement them, OldPeter.

  • Don L (unregistered) in reply to TryViagra
    TryViagra:
    Seriously? All you got out of the date thing was bitching about American date practices? It didn't occur to you that generating this notice A WEEK AFTER the due date might be an issue?

    Just a sec, I gotta fetch my DeLorean and some Plutonium....

  • Mr Zip (unregistered)

    The mailing label is cut off. If there is a correct-font barcode on the label, as "Parcel Select", the USPS has an electronic record of the delivery details, so the printed label is just syntactic sugar.

    http://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/manuals/dmm300/455.pdf

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to Jerry
    Jerry:
    Holy crap, fake Nagesh! That picture (I won't repost it) explains so much! Like why Indian code smells so bad.

    I'm assuming that sign in the background translates to English as "Institute of Advanced Computer Science, apply today for high paying internships".

    What is being wrong with this? Look, it even has elektricy wirings.

  • F (unregistered) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    ContraCorners:
    Hooray!!! It's been far too long (days, at least) since we've had a really good argument about how to properly express a date. Roll 'em!!
    There's really nothing to argue about, since there is only One True Date Format.

    I'm assuming you all know what that is, and you just refuse to use it because you like being the asses you are.

    OK, for the slow, today is 2011-11-18. Any other format is Just Plain Wrong, for soooo many reasons.

    Well, yes and no. The hyphens are optional: 20111118 is just as valid.

  • Indrek (unregistered) in reply to ContraCorners

    As others said, no sense in arguing about date formats. Let's instead argue about how stupid it is to start weekday numbering from Sunday.

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