• Prime Mover (unregistered)

    I will try to rememember to misspell mispell consistently.

  • Xorium (unregistered)

    public class Strign extends String{} would be a mice addition

  • (nodebb)

    Why super.toString() ? Why not just toString().

  • not the frist (unregistered)

    This is a brilliant WTF. Time to read under 30 seconds, but I've laughed

  • MaxiTB (unregistered)

    super is base in Java, right? I'm always confused by the confusing naming in Java.

  • Randal L. Schwartz (google)

    This violates a code-smell rule of mine that super should only be called on the same named method.

  • (nodebb)

    A misspelling of mechanical [and in an inconsistent way] once cause an industrial tooling manufacturer hundreds of thousands of dollars when it was missed in a code update... [This happened close to 30 years ago - yes, there were tools and processes, but remember, the Agile Manifesto had not even been written yet!]

  • kaejo (unregistered)

    alias sl="echo STORSTOCKHOLMS LOKALTRAFIK"

  • Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; -- (unregistered)

    My favorite typo was 'snapshit' that appeared in many places instead of 'snapshot' in a certain code base that I worked with.

  • Dmitri (unregistered)

    Are you sure it was a typo ;)?

  • Jaloopa (unregistered)

    British vs American spellings can get irritating. I've resigned myself to using Color because that's in a lot of built in stuff, but in my current codebase it's a bit of a toss up whether any individual example will be an Authorisation or an Authorisation

  • (nodebb) in reply to Jaloopa

    Apparently your auto-correct also has opinions

  • richarson (unregistered) in reply to kaejo

    Why not install sl instead?

    $ apt show sl 2>/dev/null | grep -e Description -e Homepage Homepage: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl Description: Correct you if you type `sl' by mistake

    :)

  • richarson (unregistered) in reply to richarson

    Damn formatting :/

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to richarson

    Or "gti" - https://github.com/rwos/gti - in case "git" iss bieng conzysdentley misspellet.

  • (nodebb)

    The most annoying autocorrect I've ever run into was on my Android phone. I needed to go to a certain location for a job interview. The location in question was located along Traeger Court, so I fed the location into Google maps on my phone. The autocorrect took one look at the address and, presumably, decided that Traeger wasn't a word it had in it's dictionary so it changed it to Treater. Good to see Google has my back when it comes to getting to a job interview without any issues.

  • monkeypushbutton (unregistered)

    I frequently misspell "district" and "student". Luckily I only handle the student data for all school districts in one state.

    Or rather, the studnet data for all school distrcits.

  • Yikes (unregistered)

    Interesting to see issues with the pointer fingers. Mine are usually with the pinkies.

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  • (nodebb) in reply to Jaloopa

    it's a bit of a toss up whether any individual example will be an Authorisation or an Authorisation

    And that's why I always use British English spelling. Apart from the fact that I am British (so why shouldn't I), I don't want to fight autocorrect in the comments and documentation.

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  • Sou Eu (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Yeah, by using super.toString() it disregards any definition of toString() in this class (or subclass). For bonus points, I would log a warning whenever toStrign is called, and mark that method as @Deprecated so that new occurrences of this typo are easily caught.

  • sudgy (unregistered)

    I've heard stories of people who did things like #define retrun return and #define flase false

  • Jim (unregistered)

    I worked for a company named CECO years ago. Word would correct it, quite appropriately, to Psycho.

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  • Andrew (unregistered)

    I've had "git statsu" aliased to "git status" for many years. Same energy, I guess.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Sou Eu

    Just delete the evil thing and fix the problems now.

  • (nodebb) in reply to yaytay

    Or maybe not. It's not public String toStrign() { return toString(); } It's public String toStrign() { return super.toString(); }

    If you've overriden toString() in that class, then toString() and toStrign() return a different thing. That might break things. It's not a good name for a method that's supposed to call the inherited toString() implementation, but ...

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