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See, I understand most of that. I just couldn't make out why anyone would ever put a . in the middle of a path like that. At the beginning, yeah, but not where it is. Maybe if it were being concatenated separately, but certainly not as-is, or in this context.
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i would suspect it was generated from path fragments in a less than sane manner.
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Much like the entire website was generated from code fragments in a less than sane manner. Really, when you stop expecting anything to make sense, it all makes sense.
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I know a guy who, after he bought his house, found out that it was sort of built that way.
BTW, we are missing an opportunity by not being clearer about what the site is. We get some great adventures when people from the site come here and gripe about or try to justify.
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It was already mentioned earlier, but the culprits are whoever Vietnam Airlines hired as website-builder-chimps. Most of the WTFs in this article pervade their entire website, too...
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That ought to be grounds for firing a builder -- especially in earthquake, hurricane, or tornado country.
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I specifically avoided calling them out because based on their industry there is a minor chance that they could be a customer of my employer, and I sometimes do customer support. Didn't want any awkward situations there.
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That makes sense, what with you giving out your real name and whatnot. Of course you could pull the "huh. What a coincidence!" bit, like Michael Bolton in Office Space.
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How strange, his bio picture even looks like me! I must have a doppelganger.
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Amusingly enough (?) this was in Florida, so....
Apparently if you don't discover it for a few years, there's literally nothign to be done.
He was doing some minor upgrades preparatory to selling the house (maybe he wasn't even thinking about selling at that point). Just putting in crown molding in the master bedroom and bath. One of the workers accidentally thumped a half-wall the bathtub was up against, and it fell apart. It turns out the builder didn't use greenboard in the bathroom, so the insulation was a nightmare of soaking black mess. When they pulled that out they discovered that the builder had never heard the rule of "put in the 2x4s in the framing 18" on center." The way he described it was two might be 12" apart, and the next was 24" or so away, and each one a different amount from the next. He told me for some reason there was no way to go after the builder, but this was in 2004 and I don't remember what the reason was.
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People sometimes wonder why my picture even on Facebook isn't me. Plausible deniability, friends.
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My profile pic is me kissing my wife at our wedding. If you don't have anything that important in your life, then I guess you can mess around.
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FTFY
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I wasn't thinking of manually building strings, I was thinking of testing and code reviews.
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So, basically, no actual arguments, just abuse. If the only argument you can adduce is that something is "obviously retarded", you don't have an argument. You just have an intemperate opinion. There are people in the world who believe that all kinds of unlikely things are "obvious", but their belief doesn't make it so. You know, the people at Sun who designed Date and Calendar, whatever their faults, were probably much better at their jobs than either of us. This isn't an argument from authority (which is an invalid argument as per logic 101) but simply the observation that a number of people at least as clever as you disagree with you, so simply using words like "bullshit" and "troll" carry no weight at all. I'm not here to try to educate you in manners or even in the error in the idea that just because you think something it is automatically right (do you ever change your mind?), but I will point out that your attitude to things you disagree with will hardly endear you to managements. Incidentally, if you think my last comment about month names was a troll, talk to someone who has to deal with historical dates, or conversions between different date systems. Assuming that January is Month 1 is Gregorian-Western-centric. At the moment, for instance, it's 26 Kislev 5775. If you are designing a universal date and time system, there is no primacy to the Roman month names.
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Oh, sorry, I really thought you were trolling me.
Sorry, what's your argument that we should use different numbers to represent months?
Now you're changing your argument. I don't give a shit what month name you want to use. You're the one who brought up month names corresponding to numbers. It seemed ludicrous, the way you presented it. I see now that you meant something totally different than what came across.
I don't give a shit what name you want to give to something. I'm pointing out the stupidity of using the number 0 for something that is everywhere (except the geniuses who came up with these idiot date systems, and I'm not trying to single out Java) referred to as 1.
None of your arguments have given a good reason to call the first month 0. You've talked about a lot of irrelevant things, including different calendar systems. Did the implementations for those systems (i.e., non Gregorian) end up with misleading conventions, too?
C'mon, you're interested in arguments, supply one already!
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Har de har. I have plenty of pictures like that. I just don't use them as my profile. Anyone who's been here a reasonable amount of time should understand why. A certain guy whose real name isn't @blakeyrat illustrated that for us a few years ago.
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http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/desktops/movie/tv-catch-a-contractor01.jpg
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You take the word troll to be abusive in this place? You must be new here.
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I am new here, and yes, I'm learning. But really it's the F-word, the use of "retarded" to mean "someone who disagrees with me" and a few other things that caused me to use the word "abusive".
I sense that I do not have the approval of the meeting on this one, however. I'm fast coming round to the view that the Daily WTF is not the place for me to post. I think perhaps the time has come to revert to lurking only.
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I'm sorry but I simply don't feel any need to respond to someone who can't write a simple sentence without swear words. As I note above, I'm signing off. Call it a victory for people like you.
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Maybe the first post a new user makes needs a big flashing red dialog "I swear on my life that I've been reading TDWTF for a long time and understand everyone here is an abusive troll (and I want to join in)"...
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DTFY
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It seems the Internet in general is not the place for you.
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One assumes that's supposed to be some kind of parting shot, but considering the venue, it's not that much of a much.
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We need the discotoaster to be voiced. And to ask whether we're also interested in muffins or bagels.
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If it's voiced, it has to be voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.
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"Would you like a muffin with your condescension?"