The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

WTFGuy · 2026-03-30 Reply Edit Admin

When the only tool you have is a hammer ... everything gets damaged.

jeremypnet · 2026-03-30 Reply Edit Admin

Slightly disappointed. When I saw this

When this person started, the team had some regular jobs which ran in the mornings.

I was expecting that at some time shortly after this person started, the team no longer had any regular jobs that ran in the mornings.

ESkIiHccraVBD · 2026-03-30 Reply Edit Admin

Or the way that, after our main while loop, which we'll come back to, we compare boolean variables against boolean literals.

And that he does not do it consistently!

cellocgw · 2026-03-30 Reply Edit Admin

I waited 3 minutes to post this

dpm · 2026-03-30 Reply Edit Admin

Y'all are gonna hate me, but I always test boolean variables as "if (okay)" and "if (okay == false)". Sometimes the exclamation point is hard to see, but at least I'm consistent.

2026-03-30 Reply Admin

I'll do one better. In TS I convert to boolean by using Boolean(test) not !!test. For the same reason, the double exclamation marks is hard to see and may be confused with a single excalamation mark

dpm · 2026-03-30 Reply Edit Admin

Have you considered a career as a lawyer instead?

ESkIiHccraVBD · 2026-03-30 Reply Edit Admin

In Python, the exclamation mark is a not and hard_to_see != False

2026-03-30 Reply Admin

I am going to hate you, because it can be written clearer as if okay and if !okay.

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