The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Hashing the Ruby Way

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2014-12-23

Ruby praises itself as the language that “makes programmers happy”. It does its best to be expressive and encourage a declarative style of programming.

21 comments - Last comment @ 2024-06-04

JSON at Crystal Lake

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2014-12-16

Trevor found an unusual bug. Every customer had a GUID, but for some reason, their JSON API failed if there were ever more that 75 results.

He checked the web layer, only to find that it didn’t actually build the JSON- it just returned a string. The string itself came from their Oracle database. That’s where this procedure came from:

39 comments - Last comment @ 2014-12-16

Polynomial Optimization

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2014-12-11

Rayer S’s co-worker exploded into his cube, beaming. “I’ve just optimized our processing loop. I’ve gone from O(n²) to O(n)!”

39 comments - Last comment @ 2014-12-14

Nasal String Length

by Remy Porter in Representative Line on 2014-12-03

Dariusz isn’t sure what this line of code was meant to do. At his best guess, it was supposed to find an improperly terminated C string and add a null terminator character after it:

buf[strlen(buf)] = '\0';

100 comments - Last comment @ 2023-08-07