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Well, I am very smart. I applied to Harvard, you know.
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Because this is the comment we need, but not the one we deserve.
Bonus WTF: How did you manage to post a comment 10 days before the article was published? Are you The Doctor?
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Watching the category and not missing the notification.
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he is very smart!
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Good to hear that Paula is doing well after all these years, and pulled through her reassignment with no trouble at all. Attagirl.
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Oh no, it is far worse than that. Mr and Mrs Bean must be found in the past by using Time Cops, Loopers or Terminators. Anything. They have been breeding brillance, which is now taking effect and will become unstoppable! Mr & Mrs Bean must be awarded, by force if necessary, the ultimate Darwin Award with ruthless efficiency i.e. Before either Mr or Mrs Bean (nee FILE_NOT_FOUND) discovered that their pee pee things were capable of doing other things.
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Deleting code because it looks unreachable or useless? Well I never... got rid of the habit. Neither would I want to. It's a carefully cultured habit. It's called tending your garden.
Now this guy should have probably spent more time on trying to understand what the code does. And if the deleted code actually had comments explaining why its there, then there is no sympathy left. Of course, that's all before knowing that he'd deleted code to make the rest run faster, the optimizing prick. Fuck that guy.
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EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! RESISTANCE IS USELESS.
:wtf: Where the f^)$ did those stairs come from? They were not there when we done the recky, we weren't told about them. How the heck are we going to complete our mission?
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You can't say that... he isn't smart... He is BRILLIANT!
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PTFY
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I did interview at Google, and Amazon, and a bunch of other places, so that makes me some sort of guru? Most stupid idea today.
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Pfft. I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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Dunning–Kruger effect
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The team's new bug-found catchphrase is “Uh, no! You’re not!”? Eh?
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Does it count if a Google recruiter just messaged me on LinkedIn?
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only if they messaged you using Jeff Bezos's linked in account
[spoiler]Yes, i know he's amazon, not google. THAT's THE JOKE[/spoiler]
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So... He deleted production code here and there and all tests still passed?
Or they found out when ftping the code to the production server and the destination file was larger?
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If he also deleted the tests altogether... :facepalm:
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I’m writing compiler-efficient code. If you don’t understand how the compiler turns your tests into machine instructions, you’re never going to write an efficient program! That’s why I’ve been cleaning up your tests
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Of course it doesn't, after the ring's lord has been melted in the volcano fire.
Meh. Real programmers use assembler. That's waaaaay more efficient than any compiler efficiency in hihg-level code ever could be. And real real programmers program their machines directly in hex.
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At least he didn't migrate the entire code base to Go ...
@ben_lubar
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So I stopped being a real real programmer when I finally got the macro assembler going? correct, because after that I was just a code monkey. Well, the boss thought so.
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You're funny
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I used to program by moving wires around on a circuit board. Then we had the technical break though of a Patch Board
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How to software:
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There were tests? Brilliant people don't need to run tests. Their code just works the first time.
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Yep. Edit the file and commit without even running it. Nothing could possibli go wrong!
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As everybody knows, computers can't make mistaykes!
So why don't we just use computers to develop software?
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You know what, I know how to write processor efficient code too. (That's one step above compiler efficient code)
Since "no code" runs fastest, I'll delete all your code so the execution will be finished in no time. :trollface:
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There are great ways to optimise the test running times in that case too!
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ELEVATE! [image]
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Well, I went to Cambridge. And what it taught me was, there are an awful lot of people a lot more intelligent than I am.
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You have obviously forgotten the original Intel 486, which not only could make floating point mistakes, it could do it faster than any other readily available microprocessor.
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The secret to success is not being the smartest person in the room, it's knowing who the smartest person in the room is.
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And their secrets.
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http://assets.amuniversal.com/3c9aa7b06d5101301d7a001dd8b71c47
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The secret to success is making sure someone else in the room is going to do the hard work and take the blame while you scoop up the credit.
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