• TS (unregistered)

    It's really difficult to read stories like this and not make political observations.

  • FTB (unregistered)

    The real WTF is putting "web application" and C# in the same sentence.

  • MG (unregistered)

    A lengthy magnetic field calculation was negated by multiplying by a global variable that was always 0.

    That's because, in Microsoft BASICs with line numbers, literal numbers were translated from ASCII to floats each time they are encountered in the program. Using a variable was significantly faster because it was already translated once when it was defined.

  • MG (unregistered)

    A lengthy magnetic field calculation was negated by multiplying by a global variable that was always 0.

    That's because, in Microsoft BASICs with line numbers, literal numbers were translated from ASCII to floats each time they are encountered in the program. Using a variable was significantly faster because it was already translated once when it was defined.

  • Argle (unregistered) in reply to FTB

    The real WTF is putting "web application" and C# in the same sentence.

    What? You'd rather PHP be in there?

  • Duke of New York (unregistered)

    It's not unreasonable for a company to enforce tech stack standards. Failure to do so contributes to those job listings — we've all seen them — that require every technology under the sun.

  • (nodebb)

    WTF happened? My reply to MG was up for 2 hours, but is now replaced with an extra copy of MGs post?

  • Klimax (unregistered) in reply to Argle

    Maybe he believes it all has to be Javascript on Nolde.js...

  • (nodebb) in reply to Duke of New York

    That was my thinking as well, company works with Python, everyone knows it, everyone uses it, there's in-house expertise to maintain it, etc. Then some unsupervised devs on a new project decide to do it in Object-oriented Intercal because that's what's trending on HN right now.

    Don't know if that was the case here, but the IT manager may have a completely different view of how things played out.

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered) in reply to HXO

    Probably they multiplied your reply by a (variable) 0 because that was faster.

  • Your Name (unregistered) in reply to FTB

    The less javascript the better for all involved.

  • (nodebb)

    @MG has provided a fine techie answer. Totally true. And totally irrelevant.

  • (author) in reply to Duke of New York

    It is not unreasonable but the tech stack should be defined at the outset of the project, not at the end.

  • valued internet subscriber (unregistered)

    Argle seems to be involved in a lot of WTFs. I'm thinking maybe Argle's the problem.

  • Duke of New York (unregistered) in reply to valued internet subscriber

    No, a person who accepts a job is not thereby responsible for all bad practices that have or will occur in that company. But I've interviewed with a surprising number of dipshits who think so. Seems you might be the sort.

  • (nodebb)

    How do you negate something by multiplying by zero?

  • (nodebb)

    By multiplying the result of the calculation by zero, the calculation itself was negated.

  • Zeroizer (unregistered)

    *The calculation was zeroized.

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