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2 results (0.75 seconds) Did you mean: Congratulations
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Personally I would have removed the exclamation marks as well!!!!!!!!!
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Brillant!
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Almoast frist
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The RWTF is that Josh checked in changes without testing! Naughty!
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.NET 2.5 ????????
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Don't scream at the user!!!!
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Spelling error in displayed text? Defect! Spelling error in code? Defect! Spelling error in filename? Defect!
I do have sympathy though. It could be argued that modern English is the PHP of human languages. It seems unfixable.
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I used to work with a dev who couldn't spell certain words to save their life. Drove me nuts. Status was always stateus, argument was always argment, and so on. But it was never wrong on plain text, only on things that were hard to change like database table names.
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i dont leave home without it
https://github.com/EWSoftware/VSSpellChecker/wiki
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the last tick didn't finish loading for me, is the site down?
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Bastard!
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I've worked with one of those myself. But on the bright side, it made searching for the source of error messages easy... even if the same message appeared in more than one place, it would never be misspelled in quite the same way every time. :)
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Funniest thing I've read on here in weeks! Thanks!
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This may be the most fantastic thing ever. XD
I worked with a guy who had spelling issues, but he was very consistent. He was also an amazing programmer, so it wasn't usually an issue.
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Eyme shoor Rays orthografee iz intenshunnel.
Maybe something he and his classmates invented a couple years ago.
Nevertheless, comparing to a message string as a condition is a WTF if not better hidden than here. Doesn't improve job security at all.
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Probably because on plain text someone else already corrected him.
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.net framework 2.5 was bundled with Windows 2009, I think.
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"Hard coded strings" + "touched up the spelling" = "Josh is an idiot who didn't do a global search / replace"
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“Java and C# are kind of the same thing, right?”
<whine mode="lisp weenie">Now all you D-flat coders know how I feel when some moron says that Scheme must be the same as Common Lisp. Setting aside the fact that once you get past the syntax, the different s-expression languages are more divergent from each other than the curly brace languages are (modulo Perl), that is.</whine>
Though admittedly, I did get a C# job once based on my Java background (the company was having trouble finding candidates, and had promised to give me full training, a promise they immediately broke, as per SOP for small consulting firms). It was a terrible job, for a number of reasons, and the few parts I did enjoy I fucked up on, so didn't last very long anyway.
Addendum 2016-05-04 09:51: I should clarify that last part: the problems I had with the job and in doing the job had little if anything to do with C#, and would have been as bad if not worse if it were in Java.
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And what good would it be when:
a) the same string written in two different locations might have 2 completely different misspellings? (As told by D on comment http://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/congraubullations#comment-464718 ) b) it's only a SUBSTRING of the original that's being referenced in a later string? (Which is exactly what happens in the article, BTW.) Should he search for every single possible substring of the original strings?
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"At least Ray is consistent."
That's right. That's one thing Remy could learn from him. I mean, where is the Easy Reader Version? WHERE ARE OUR UNICORNS???
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Congraubullations, this made me laugh out loud, for reals.
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Turn-around in under a week? Noice. - The Josh from the Article
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I think the "misspelling" on Congraubullations was done on purpose. Since the code is checking for a substring, it's good practice not to use a common text/word. This helps when others work on the same code and you don't want it to break. If it was a common word/phrase, then if another text has that word on it, it would have triggered that portion of the code meant only for the final phase. Common practice is to use Status Codes instead of text phrases.
I do believe the main issue is that Josh had ADD and did not understand that the portion of that code might have been done on purpose. Upon seeing the other minor misspellings, he assumed it was misspelled by accident as well. Josh even commented the one week turn around...which meant it also applied to the other developer and the "rush" could have contributed to the other misspellings.
Finally, a real good developer does a scan of the whole codebase every time they change something. And last minute changes should be tested as well...NO EXCUSES.
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I was referring to the one-week turn-around on the article being submitted to publication.
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Yuor spelling hace bin retufted.
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TRWTF is that probably most of the people here mocking this guy for his spelling seriously think that "Stati" is the right plural form of "Status".
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[Citation needed]
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where's the unicorns??
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I got a C# job based on Java experience as well. Obviously they're not the same thing, but anyone with expertise in one should be able to pick up the other without difficulty.
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Unless you're this guy, who wants them to look the same.
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Interestingly enough, I was at a conference a while back, while they were discussing .Net unit testing (I believe it was called XUnit) Aparrently the Alpha Release was simply the JUnit source code, modified until it compiled in C#.
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It's highly variable. Sometimes, something comes into the inbox and we're instantly like, "Oh, I want to write that one up!" Other times, we'll leave something sitting in the queue for yeaaaaaars. Seriously.
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We have a guy who works for us and is mostly in charge of setting up new SQL procedures and tables.... He is dyslexic and so we have just gotten used to his interesting spellings, .... he also has really bad memory and struggles to remember what he has created over the 8 years he has been here and has a bad case of slopey shoulders when issues crop up..... his spelling does make it easier to prove to him that he wrote it
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I'm amazed that after all of that, "throbber" was spelt correctly.
Ezy Redder Varson: lrn2Engish
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Does that make PHP the English of programming languages? Used everywhere despite the available alternatives?
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Misspelling is a security feature. I know because of all the password strength checkers. Anyway, keying off the string to decide when you're finished strikes me as a poor choice. There's some code somewhere that decides to change the string. Why aren't you changing the throbber in the same place?
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@Bob Curiously, the appearance of poor memory may be linked to the dyslexia. Many, many years ago, when I was a student, I worked for a time in the "Learning Centre" helping out people who were having difficulties with the classes I had already finished. The director of the centre, whom I had met at an initiation session, obviously remembered me, and she sent me this guy.
He looked like his perfect profession should have been lumberjack (and not Monty Python style, more like Paul Bunyon is usually depicted), and he told me almost the first moment we met that he was dyslexic. OK, the warning was good to have (but I would have appreciated a message from Madame La Directrice to give me a bit more warning, please next time?), but it didn't prepare me for the full impact. Yes, as is characteristic for dyslexics, he had a hard time reading and writing stuff (quite why he thought programming would be a good life choice I don't know - money, perhaps), but it went beyond that. Stuff you told him didn't "stick" the first time. Frequently not the second or even third time either. The worst part of it was that he was looking for help on the assembly language course (did I mention this was many, many years ago?), and of course assembly language is a bit more demanding of the old brain cells than other languages, as I'm sure you all know...
Interestingly, I've seen this same non-stick characteristic in a couple of other people since then, and it always made me wonder how many other dyslexics have made it into this profession.
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The first letter of an UpperCamelCase name isn't a hump, it's the camel's head.
lowerCamelCase should really be called nessie-case.
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Hard-coded strings give me a BIG throbber.
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LOL. Having sleepless nights for the whole week then stumbling to this article made every minute worth it. I'm sure I'm not the only programmer here who reaches the point of "F**k this I'm" out moments but still gets back to the challenge every single time. Made me realize why I love what I do.
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LOL. Having sleepless nights for the whole week then stumbling to this article made every minute worth it. I'm sure I'm not the only programmer here who reaches the point of "F**k this I'm out" moments but still gets back to the challenge every single time. Made me realize why I love what I do.