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- lanstein 16y agowtf indeed.
- lanstein 16y agoGood old HN. It's so easy to predict what will happen to a comment like this - in this case, +1 because it's mildly witty compared to the other comments, -1 because someone feels like it shouldn't be upvoted, and another -1 because it's at the bottom or is now relatively content-free compared to the newer posts. Will probably settle around 0 or -1, depending on how long the post stays on the front page. I'd gladly take the two-point hit in order to verify my suspicions.
- donaq 16y agohttp://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniques/ http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniqu... I'll probably get more downvotes than you for this, and maybe even a "this belongs in Reddit" type comment, but you're obviously trying to pull "Winning by losing" on us. Besides, it's not a "prediction" if you say it after the event. p.s. Your original comment was not very witty. :p
- lanstein 16y agoIt's not a prediction. I tracked the comment throughout the day. Hence the description of the movement.
- mkramlich 16y agoDon't worry. I bet there are lots of HN'ers who regularly experiment and A/B test HN comments & submissions, in order to learn what yields the best karma. A bit like SEO but just for HN.
- fizx 16y agoIf someone is actually doing this, I'd love to see a writeup. Never underestimate other ocd nerds :)
- xenophanes 16y agoI tried doing some testing a while back but PG didn't appreciate it.
- donaq 16y agoAh, my prediction was wrong. But little do you know that I predicted that my prediction would be wrong because I knew that by openly anticipating my comment's downvoting, I would prompt you to upvote it. Dance, puppets, dance! How droll. Now excuse me while I go stroke my white Persian. Mmm... exquisite...
- wdewind 16y agowow with the exception of the server in the women's bathroom, this has got to be the worst dailywtf ive ever seen
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- ewams 16y agoYou have to admit that is pretty sweet. Come on!
- Janteh 16y agoHere's the link to the story about the women's bathroom, for people who are also interested: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Stalled-Server-Room.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Stalled-Server-Room.aspx
- Aaronontheweb 16y agoThat is the funniest thing I have ever seen.
- Deestan 16y agoThe weirdest place I've ever found a server was in the storage room of a neighboring bar.
- Aaronontheweb 16y agoI would love to see the execution plan for that Regex-heavy SQL query. I'll send it to our DBA if he's ever having a bad day and needs a reminder of how bad things can be elsewhere ;)
- arnorhs 16y agoActually, I think many DBAs would love a problem like this, because there is soo much room for optimization. You could make this thing run much faster. Of course, then you'd just be making a piece of shit work faster....
- AGorilla 16y agoI wish we knew what these bit strings were used for.
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- piramida 16y agoBeautiful code! I mean, if you program for an enterprise, one of the ways to secure your job is to generate few hundred thousand lines of crap like that and have enterprise heavily use the end product (you need to make it work first). Then you will become indispensable. Managers will never know if your code is unmaintainable because software you wrote is inherently complicated or because you are an "awesome" programmer. New coders hired to maintain your codebase will admit failure quickly, or propose costly "total rewrites", so it becomes cheaper to keep you around. Sadly, all this from experience on the receiving end. We ended up throwing away similar code and firing original developers, but we spent ungodly amounts of time at meetings first.
- noonespecial 16y agoIts a perfect storm. Lots of lines of LOC indicating massive productivity, complete unintelligibility to other coders indicating your rock-star status, and a completely intractable architecture guaranteeing your job security. WTF clueless or diabolically brilliant?
- webmat 16y ago"lines of LOC"? Is this a new recursive definition for LOL?
- noonespecial 16y agoSadly, its a word for word take of a little pamphlet on productivity I got on the first day of a consulting gig in 2003. At first I thought it was hilarious, then I tried to explain it to them, then I took to using it ironically like a grown man in Vision skatewear, then in a sad bit of learned helplessness it stuck in my brain, emerging to embarrass me on this future date. I am ashamed.
- mkramlich 16y agoHere's an example of 2 LOLOC: LOC LOC
- melvin 16y ago
- webmat 16y agoThe person apparently knows about the mvc pattern thoug. There's a controller in there! Still deserves death, though
- dkimball 16y agoJust to set the record straight, Caché -- which is the last man standing of MUMPS packages at the present day -- includes support for bitmaps. It also contains support for everything else from AJAX to the kitchen sink, since it originates with several independent (and competing) OS/programming-language/database systems, originating in the late '60s before worse-is-better ate everyone's lunch. It even works as a RAD environment (plus a webserver, an SQL database, an OO programming language, and a go-between for other systems' incompatible message formats): very unusual (I expect the kitchen-sink module, or perhaps the mail reader, in the next version), but not primitive. Its reputation is sullied by some WTF-worthy users, and by old coding conventions (now less completely abandoned than they should be) that were like Perl but hard to understand. Full disclosure: I work for Intersystems, but not in Sales, and this post is purely on my own initiative. (One does not pay people to make unflattering comparisons with Perl.)
- rdtsc 16y ago> It also contains support for everything else from AJAX to the kitchen sink ... It even works as a RAD environment (plus a webserver, an SQL database, an OO programming language, and a go-between for other systems' incompatible message formats. Sorry but that sounds like a Frankenstein monster type of language/sdk/database. Now I am more scared of it than before ;-)
- grandalf 16y agoI'd love to see anyone's examples of code that is actually beautiful but equally ungainly/unnecssary. I've seen Ruby metaprogramming / monkey patching used in ways that are equally unmaintainable, but also fail to set off such obvious alarms.
- SandB0x 16y agoHas a company ever sued any TDWTF submitters, or is the code just too embarrassing to be associated with? I've seen a fair amount of crazy code like this in the wild, but haven't had the balls to submit, even after some obfuscation.
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- arnorhs 16y agoNo wonder why PHP devs get such a bad rep, when stuff like this exists...
- mkramlich 16y agoThere are things on the Internet that, once seen, cannot be unseen. This is the programmer's equivalent of that.
- one010101 16y agoReminds me of a client who wanted to know why the program took so long. "I mean, it's all just 1's and 0's, right? he said. I think he was serious, too!
- dasil003 16y agoShow him http://aturingmachine.com/index.php http://aturingmachine.com/index.php That'll shut him up.
- DCoder 16y agoBeen there, seen that, all I got was this lousy t-shirt. From the system I maintain: /* e - ExternalStatus i - InternalStatus e\i | D F N X -------------------------- D | A B C D F | E F G H N | I J K L X | M N O P */ switch( $inst->Status ) { case 'A' : case 'D' : case 'M' : $stats['d']++; break; case 'E' : case 'F' : case 'G' : case 'H' : case 'B' : case 'J' : case 'N' : $stats['f']++; $stats['d']++; break; default : $stats['n']++; }