The Daily WTF

The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·1d ago

Today's maybe more of a "representative data sheet entry" than anything else. Every developer has the experience of reading the documentation.

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The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·2d ago

Matlab is special. Scientists and researchers love it. Programmers hate it, and not just because it uses 1-based arrays.

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The Daily WTFby Ellis Morning·3d ago

Today's submitter John F. was migrating data from a Microsoft platform to a Microsoft platform, using Microsoft tools. Absolutely nothing could go wrong, right? Right?

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The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·4d ago

Developing software can't simply be done with a text editor and a compiler. There are a variety of other tools we have to bring to bear that support our efforts and keep the team organized, like...

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The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·8d ago

Maciej works as a freelancer, and that frequently means picking up old PHP code that nobody wants to support. One project had been lingering for ages with key features missing.

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The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·9d ago

"You submitted a pull request." Indika was, in fact, reviewing the comments she'd gotten on that very same pull request, when her boss, Bill, walked up behind her.

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The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·10d ago

Eric O was trawling through an API for handling concurrency, and found this little mismatch between the comment and the definition: /// <summary> /// private Status, because while this object needs...

The Daily WTFby Ellis Morning·11d ago

I moved some things around on my calendar. 4:00 PM today is open. Please come to the executive floor. -Leila For a while I was stunned, staring at the email in front of me.

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The Daily WTFby Lyle Seaman·14d ago

Looked to the past for some time-traveling entries to round out a themed post. They're 25% fresh. Robert apparently got a notification of a planned past delivery.

The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·15d ago

Greta (previously) sends us more updates from her "Ancient Development Environment". An important task an IDE must do is report build errors to its users.

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The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·16d ago

Frederick A sends us a bit of null checking code, and offers us a better solution. class ConferenceService { /// <summary> /// Checks if conference is active /// </summary> public bool IsCalling()...

The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·17d ago

Frequent submitter Capybara James sends us this simple snippet, which highlights that even when you have the lovely convenience of Optional types, you can use them wrong.

The Daily WTFby Remy Porter·18d ago

Flat-file style databases were designed to fit the constraints of the systems they were running on.

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The Daily WTFby Lyle Seaman·21d ago

I've never been a huge fan of their furniture but I will happily demolish a plate of meatballs. Jan agrees "My loyalty to this Swedish megastore is immeasurable."