The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Virrus Attack!

by Remy Porter in Feature Articles on 2010-11-16

photo credit: Rocky X @ Flickr It was Friday afternoon, and Mike was 78% of the way out the door and into the parking lot when he heard the pitter-patter of footsteps behind him. Don't look, don't look… he thought, intent on getting out the door and starting his weekend.

He turned around and looked. One of Mike's fellow admins ran down the hall; his company-mandated tie flapped around, and one of his shirt-tails had worked loose in the chase. "Mike! There's a virus attacking the VAX!"

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There Is No Cow Level, in School

by Remy Porter in Feature Articles on 2010-11-09

If you can't find a "bird" class in your senior year of college, you probably don't deserve to graduate. It's the class you can fly through without doing any effort, which rounds out your credit count and polishes off any requirements.

Andy deserved to graduate. The CS department at his school switched from PASCAL to C++ his senior year, which opened up a few intro-level classes to him. A basic course in a language he already knew was a formula for an easy "A". The tail-wind in this "bird" course was the professor- he was going to a bigger and better school the following semester.

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Technically an Interview

by Remy Porter in Feature Articles on 2010-11-04

José knew exactly what he expected from the interview. The company was a startup, located in one of those up-and-coming urban industrial parks. They claimed to want the "best and brightest", and warned about long hours but promised interesting and exciting work. In other words, a typical startup. José was willing to roll the dice and see where they went.

Their building reinforced those expectations with 25,000sq. ft. of warehouse-turned-office-building, decorated in late-modern-artsy-fartsy furnishings. The receptionist showed José to the break room, wedged him into an uncomfortable but attractive chair, and offered him some coffee. "Your interviewer should be out in a moment."

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