Daily WTF

[Fred]

Very nice indeed. equals() anyone?

I said that too, but it works in C# (it's not java) ... still though... boolean or enum!!! come on!

Fred.

[Fred]

Also from the same code base :

171 line long for loop!!

:-)

[Fred]

I linked a mate to this thread and he had been involved in setting up an off shore dev centre for his company which later put him out of a job. His comment :

> ha! mind you, on topic actually- at <company> after a YEAR, one of the two
> female developers actually asked her team leader what a boolean was!

Classic.

That wasn't India either! It was Prague.

Fred.

[Fred]

Interlude :

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if(blnTrueOrFalse == true){
      otherBooleanVariable = false;
}
if(blnTrueOrFalse == false){
      otherBooleanVariable = true;
}

That is ten types of wrong!

use else
just check the boolean, not compare it with true/false
just assign it straight to the output var with or without notting
use a name that means positive for positive, not the equiv of maybe

jesus, these guys are ROUGH...

Fred.

[AbeFM]

this is why you don't even want to be jewish anymore: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/26/hanukk ... rss_latest


Then I found out, we have it easy:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/26/san ... pstoryview

[AbeFM]

huh. Could be interesting.
http://www.ducatibunbury.com.au/999rTurbo.tpl

[sry_not4sale]

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if (session.getRecord().getId() == 11) { //do something }

Hahaha I do that all the time



Working on a government project at work... using the horrible beast named Oracle... (their management's decision, not ours).
Had to hack the entire codebase of our project to use a single space " " instead of an empty string, as Oracle treats an empty string as null!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fred]

I blame you :-P

http://commons.apache.org/lang/api/org/ ... ng.String)

I hope you are joking about the hard coding thing... If 11 signifies some specific record there must be some other unique aspect to it that you can identify it by instead.

Seriously though, doing things like treating null and empty the same is pretty important.

Also, as much as it isn't open source, oracle doesn't face any competition from mysql for serious sized stuff. Postgres is supposed to be decent, but oracle still has some advantages. Yes, they've been enterprising me at work ;-)

Right, enough off topic, that bike was seriously insane.

Fred.

[sry_not4sale]

I meant the comment lol

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// do something here

We use postgres for huge sites here at work. The biggest hurdle with postgres is it is horribly configured "out of the box". Outperforms oracle to no end on a large php website.

[Fred]

Define huge? Some of this financial junk in the banks is on a massive scale and they really care about the real time nature of it because if you are 0.0003ms late for a buy you may dip out and lose millions etc. So they put the boxs in buildings on the main trunks of the net. Not some random building that's bottle necked as is ;-) I know postgres is good, and I can't remember why it's not as good in some respects, but there were some points, maybe they weren't performance points at all. There were some things though.

Fred.