- Feature Articles
- CodeSOD
- Error'd
-
Forums
-
Other Articles
- Random Article
- Alex's Soapbox
- Announcements
- Best of…
- Best of Email
- Best of the Sidebar
- Bring Your Own Code
- Coded Smorgasbord
- Mandatory Fun Day
- Off Topic
- Representative Line
- News Roundup
- Editor's Soapbox
- Software on the Rocks
- Souvenir Potpourri
- Sponsor Post
- Tales from the Interview
- The Daily WTF: Live
- Virtudyne
Admin
Unfortunately (for him), he became known as Former Software Engineer IV.
Admin
The Oracle of Delphi
[size=5]The Circle of Inception is complete[/size]
Admin
Or in the startup world of exaggerated titles, The Engineer Formerly Known As a Software Engineer IV.
Admin
The Thpeech Therapitht of LithP
Admin
Wow, this topic certainly has had more posts than average as of late for an article topic...
Admin
The ⍎⊖⍕⊃⊂|⌊-*+○⌈×÷!⌽⍉⌹~⍴⍋⍒,⍟?⍳0 of APL
Admin
What's go-ing on here?
Admin
Welcome to TDWTF, where everything's made up and the stories don't matter!
Admin
The
RANK ERRORof APL?Admin
I'm glad to see that Brad didn't use 'ls', so presumably he used what real men use: 'echo *'. Which, incidentally, is good to know if you ever manage to unmount the file system on which 'ls' is installed. And yes, that is quite feasible. "What do you mean, you should not put /usr on a different file system in Solaris?"
Admin
Isn't that a Zero Wing Easter Egg?
Admin
The Rainman of Brainfuck The Ghost of Whitespace The Librarian of Ook!
Admin
The Monty Python
Admin
The Colonel of CoffeeScript The Tyrant of TypeScript
<!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->Admin
I once stumbled on a comment above some error checking that was along the lines of:
Admin
Or accidentally nuke your PATH when attempting to add to it on startup. I was real pleased with myself that I managed to figure out the absolute path to ls and nano so I could go undo what I did and reboot.
Admin
off the top of my head i think those are respectively:
/bin/lsand/usr/bin/nanoEDIT: Yup. i remembered right.
Admin
the gentle brainfucker the maven of maven
another one: regexosaurus rex
Admin
Admin
thx
Admin
<quote>Brad - 1. Moron - 0</quote>
Did I understand this correctly, Brad minus one, Moron zero?
GNUru
RegExPert
CSharpener
Admin
See, I consider that just fair warning. Sort of like how in my tech support days, I a couple times got the user to actually tell the next tech support rep that they had an "ID-10-T" error, which served as a useful warning to that rep.
Admin
Ahhh, the "burned by insulting on a conference call" oldie. Back in 2007, we were in a large meeting, with a lot of high management levels in the conference room. One of them called one of his underlings and put him on the speakerphone... not before telling him "Hi, I'm putting you on the speakerphone, all of the high level management is currently listening your words". He then proceeds to tell his underling that there was going to be a major release on Saturday and that "we require your assistance during this Saturday".
Said underling proceeded to say "What? Again? No, fuck you, and tell them to go fuck themselves, I ain't working yet another weekend! Fuck you!".
That guy didn't get fired mostly because they really needed him. But damn...
Admin
His alt-meta-Excellency of Emacs, surely?
Admin
who? Baron von Bucky Bits?
Admin
Have heard the same or variants multiple times. Like: you morons are no longer allowed to remote into our server. But we need you to fix this today!
Admin
:headdesk:
Admin
That's the point when you need to flatly ask them which it is to be. Fix things or leave alone. It helps if you can also say that you really don't mind which it is, but you absolutely want them to make their minds up. Sometimes you've just got to stop being nice and throw the consequences straight in someone's face to make them realise what they've just asked for.
Admin
That way you can either recuperate some costs when it turns out that the on site was unnecessary or give him a chance to evaluate his position on the remote ban.
Admin
Some people don't know what is good for them ... I once witnessed a 30 minute discussion between a manager and senior dev from our side and several(!) IT and level managers about if it was right to reboot the DB server. The application was non-responsive, it was almost impossible to log in and administer the server and a fail over had just failed. The discussion was won by our manager saying that after the half hour debate it was almost 17h and business would be closing down. If they wanted us to stay on site to watch everything come alive again then they should perform the reboot now.
Admin
I can't imagine the interviewing process of Linux related position that doesn't involve some sort of combination of "grep", "sed", etc.
Someone who don't know basic Linux command but "aced the rest of the interview" is definitely TRWTF.
Admin
I find it's the neurotypical types who get that confused...folks for which the label you stated applies to usually have a better understanding of logic than that!
Admin
What, did you think I'd be offended? :laughing: Nah; generally, I'm pretty difficult to offend ;)
<!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->Admin
I used to be really bad, but I learned a number of tricks. Things like look at the bridge of someone's nose; it's just about impossible for the person (or anyone else) to distinguish from proper facial contact. It beats staring at their shoes. :smile:
It also helps if I can make sure I know what I'm talking about; I can't bullshit people face to face.
Admin
Admin
/me raises paw
Yep. me too... unless the latest edition of the DSM reclassified me (it's been a while since i had my shrink update my chart)
No worries. It was pretty obvious you weren't trying to offend, so no offense taken. ;-)
Admin
Admin
DSM V has removed Aspergers completely, it's now part of Autistic Spectrum Disorder. There seem to be a decent amount of psychologists who think it should still be a separate condition, but from what I've seen there's no real consensus on what makes someone Aspergers rather than Autistic
Admin
Admin
The NHS doesn't officially use the DSM, and Aspergers is still in the ICD-10. DSM is still pretty influential though
Admin
The Diagnostic Diva
Admin
The Bonkers Bible
Admin
The Malady Manual
<!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->Admin
I read that as the M'Lady manual.
Written by this guy [image]
Admin
It comes down to this: When managers are faced with a technical problem, they either (a) hold meetings, or (b) stand behind the desk of whoever is actually solving the problem (sometimes providing "advice"). Both of those activities at best do nothing and not infrequently make things work by demanding the technical people (the ones who can do something useful) spend their valuable time reporting back to them.
So why do they do it so consistently? Because everyone in the organization is telling them to "Do something, now!", and the manager who gives the right answer ("Our best technical people are working on getting it fixed as quickly as they possibly can. Please be patient and let them do their jobs. I will inform you the moment the situation changes.") is seen as "passive". S/he might know perfectly well that taking stupid actions makes it worse, but also knows that if s/he is perceived to have stepped in during a crisis it will look like s/he fixed a problem for stupid subordinates whereas if s/he lets them work s/he'll end up having to accept blame for the problem existing in the first place.
The world of management is one in which perception trumps reality, every time.
Admin
So you create a task force of developers who go into meetings about how to fix it, while a couple of others get on with actually fixing it.
Admin
Don't forget to ask for hourly updates and kpi's or progress indicators. Preferably to be filled in in some excel somewhere ...
Admin
reminds me of vetinari and committees
[spoiler]He was a great believer in letting a thousand voices be heard, because this meant that all he actually needed to do was listen only to the ones that had anything useful to say, “useful” in this case being defined in the classic civil-service way as “inclining to my point of view.” In his experience, it was a number generally smaller than ten. The people who wanted a thousand, etc., really meant that they wanted their own voice to be heard while the other nine hundred and ninety-nine were ignored, and for this purpose the gods had invented the committee. Vetinari was very good at committees, especially when Drumknott took the minutes. What the iron maiden was to stupid tyrants, the committee was to Lord Vetinari; it was only slightly more expensive,1 far less messy, considerably more efficient, and, best of all, you had to force people to climb inside the iron maiden. 1 The only real expense was tea and biscuits halfway through, which seldom happened with the iron maiden.[/spoiler]
EDIT: erm, Discourse, if you could blur that it would be great
Admin
reminds me of vetinari and committees
[spoiler]He was a great believer in letting a thousand voices be heard, because this meant that all he actually needed to do was listen only to the ones that had anything useful to say, “useful” in this case being defined in the classic civil-service way as “inclining to my point of view.” In his experience, it was a number generally smaller than ten. The people who wanted a thousand, etc., really meant that they wanted their own voice to be heard while the other nine hundred and ninety-nine were ignored, and for this purpose the gods had invented the committee. Vetinari was very good at committees, especially when Drumknott took the minutes. What the iron maiden was to stupid tyrants, the committee was to Lord Vetinari; it was only slightly more expensive,1 far less messy, considerably more efficient, and, best of all, you had to force people to climb inside the iron maiden.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]1 The only real expense was tea and biscuits halfway through, which seldom happened with the iron maiden.[/spoiler]
Newlines are a barrier to spoilers
Admin
thanks, edited. :wtf: