The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

My Battery Goes Up to 11

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-06-28

"With battery life this good, I'm almost afraid to see what would happen if I picked Power Saver," writes Scott.

56 comments - Last comment @ 2013-07-03

We're Going to Need Another Guru!

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2013-06-27

Jonathan Mooney's office recently lost their resident SQL Server Reporting Services guru to greener pastures. As such, a general consensus began to take hold of the teams that nobody could ever hope to match his high-level abilities and that their organization as a whole was doomed.

This fear was confirmed after the first programming change arrived after the guru's departure. A relatively simple one really - allow for the addition of another parameter - "Overview". Unfortunately, the departed guru prided him self on his complex methods, as represented by the code below.

=SWITCH(
Parameters!View.Count = 1,IIF(Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=1,0,0)) = "Redemptions" ,false,true),
Parameters!View.Count = 2,IIF(Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=2,1,0)) = "Redemptions" or
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=2,0,0)) = "Redemptions",false,true), Parameters!View.Count = 3,
IIF(Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=3,2,0)) = "Redemptions" or
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=3,1,0)) = "Redemptions" or
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=3,0,0)) = "Redemptions",false,true), Parameters!View.Count = 4,
IIF(Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=4,3,0)) = "Redemptions" or
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=4,2,0)) = "Redemptions" or
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=4,1,0)) = "Redemptions" or
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=4,0,0)) = "Redemptions",false,true), Parameters!View.Count = 5,
IIF(Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=5,4,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=5,3,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=5,2,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=5,1,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=5,0,0)) = "Redemptions",false,true), Parameters!View.Count = 6,
IIF(Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=6,5,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=6,4,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=6,3,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=6,2,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=6,1,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=6,0,0)) = "Redemptions",false,true), Parameters!View.Count = 7,
IIF(Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=7,6,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=7,5,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=7,4,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=7,3,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=7,2,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=7,1,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=7,0,0)) = "Redemptions",false,true), Parameters!View.Count = 8,
IIF(Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=8,7,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=8,6,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=8,5,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=8,4,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=8,3,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=8,2,0)) = "Redemptions"  or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=8,1,0)) = "Redemptions" or 
Parameters!View.Value(iif(Parameters!View.Count=8,0,0)) = "Redemptions",false,true)
)

113 comments - Last comment @ 2013-07-11

Reminder - OMGWTF2 Contest Deadline Soon!

by Mark Bowytz in Announcements on 2013-06-26

Alright everybody: the clock is winding down on The Daily WTF's contest: The Olympiad of Misguided Geeks Part 2 sponsored by our friends at New Relic. Only 2 days left until the deadline!

Now, if you haven't started on an entry then I suggest that you get a move on. Remember - we aren't interested in an "epic win" level of quality ...we want your greatest EPIC FAIL. Your entry doesn't have to be the grandest affair - and there are runner-up prizes available too - so the solution you cook up at the last minute might steal the show!

28 comments - Last comment @ 2014-06-03

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is Everywhere!

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-06-21

Shane writes, "You gotta admire a septuagenarian who managed to get involved with an armed standoff, Chris Brown, a Twitter contest, Seth Meyers, the Bulgarian elections, and California prisons--all within 24 hours."

69 comments - Last comment @ 2013-06-25

Babies for Sale - Cheap!

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-06-14

"It's nice to know I can get a good deal on a 16 pound baby on the internet rather than having to resort to the old-fashioned way of getting one," writes Mike Sargent.

50 comments - Last comment @ 2013-06-19

Don't Quit Your Day Job

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-06-07

OMGWTF2 Hey everybody - just in case you missed it, about a week and a half ago, we announced the long awaited return of our programming contest The Olympiad of Misguided Geeks at The Daily WTF - Part 2, sponsored by our good friends at NewRelic. The contest runs until June 28th so there's still plenty of time to join in on the fun!

70 comments - Last comment @ 2014-03-18

The Slow Down Loop

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2013-06-04

Arlen's manager was the kind of guy who always smiled, so when he stepped into the conference room full of developers without his trademark grin, everybody knew something was definitely wrong.

"The good news is that that Jones likes the revamped site since we uplifted that gnarled mess of ASP to PHP, but there's just one thing: he's not so much of a fan of the performance."

150 comments - Last comment @ 2013-10-10