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  <strong>GROUP BY ALL THE THINGS!</strong>
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  Is that related to the tautology department and were they informed in triplicate?
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  Woopsies are annoying, arent they?
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  @Buddy said:Bonus wtf (unless earlier versions of java had mutable strings that I didn't know about): Strings were immutable before Java 1.0. That was a very early design decision. @Buddy said:```java this.queryText = new String(queryText); // copy rather than reference, just in case the caller decides to update it That's actually not too big a problem IIRC. They share the same underlying backing store behind the scenes. Still a waste, but not a terrible one.
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  That's one way of doing it....
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  To be fair, if there wasn't a specific function to get the day of the week, this seems like the best method. And it should work as long as they don't change the days of the week.
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  Checkit by hand
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  Draconian stupid password checkers! Why no space? WHYNOSPACE? This post written with EM-spaces.
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  Uncharted Territory
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  Well, the only thing that can be on the left of = is an identifier. And the condition of if needs to be Boolean. And else is syntactically required for an if expression (there are no statements).
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  How to search output with PowerShell
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  I've used System.Xml.Linq (or was it System.Linq.Xml?) from PowerShell to run arbitrary one-off transformations on a whole shitload of .vxcproj files that I couldn't be bothered to edit by hand...
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  Scripting Outlook with VBS: harder than it should be
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  @blakeyrat said:I find it hard to imagine what kind of "stuff" you might want to do with an email that Outlook's mail rules don't already support. Filtering spam from one of the Enterprise news lists or our internal gift shop comes to mind. The subjects are always different and they both change domains every time as well. The Enterprise news list is . But our own internal gift shop?
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  No borders for Matryoshka #4
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  And no, the HTML code is not nearly as bad as this ineffective line suggests. Sorry no there
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  Not to be compared to a number
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  "Maid Vulkan" it says on the side. Probably the best kind.
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  Dbo.ApplicantSentences
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  @CoyneTheDup said:Broken, as discussed, by the users revising the question to say "Strengths and Weaknesses". For which I suppose the recommended fix would be to just do this: Provided that the underlying schema can't change, that's probably your best bet, sadly enough. @CoyneTheDup said:Talk about fragile code. So, like, what, are they going for job security here? The guy who designed dbo.ApplicantSentences was at his first job out of college and had probably never touched a database in his life prior. Management had this belief that if you are about to build a new application, you should assign it to the new guy and not someone with architectural and domain experience because New Blood, New Ideas™. That guy exited the company after about a year and left behind much other technical debt, not surprisingly. The guy who designed the profile page (which was built about a year later) that was supposed to report on that unreportable data was probably cursing his name left and right while implementing that good-enough-for-now hack that breaks the moment the client rewords a question. By then it was way too late to fix anything.
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  The S in SQL stands for Sadism
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  @Weng said:@Serpentes said:I'll probably try to get that changed, but it typically requires getting the request notarized by Jesus to get the DBAs to touch this crap. Understandably so. I never have known why DBAs are so fucking afraid of index changes in WORM databases. Yes,they consume storage and slightly increase I/O time on write. But they let us do queries that don't crush the CPU, RAM and TempDB. Which we run routinely. Speaking as a DBA (but not for all DBAs) As a DBA you shouldn't be afraid of index changes, whatever the read/write profile of the database. It is important, however, to approach this task with definite goals in terms of how much faster you are trying to make certain queries as well as being aware of the implication for other activities such as writes, index maintenance jobs and backups. But, you're dead right. In a DB with many more reads than writes (e.g. reporting database) there's a strong case for throwing as many indexes at it as it needs.
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  Yo dawg i heard you like properties
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  @Tsaukpaetra said:Is TRWTF that it works? TRWTF is not using the Java classes dedicated to this purpose. They've only been there since forever.
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  For Most of Each
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  Test all of the things! And then test the tests! It's the only way to be sure!
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  Spot the bug: javascript queue
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  @Yamikuronue said:Ah, so that's a terminology thing, I dont' consider sanitation part of "baking" but you do, so you might describe a system as "baking" on the server while I'd say it was not, and we'd both be describing the same system. Yeah, what's planned seems to be sanitisation rather than "baking" which seems to be a thing which only applies to Dickhorse.
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  The return-value-and-out-parameter idiom
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  @boomzilla said:which the principle of most WTF says they aren't
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  Existentialist SQL
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  @swayde said:Ahem.. Well, yes, but they call it a "database"...and one can do useful things with it.
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  When your API is "running shell commands"
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  Needs more cinnamon_real_escape_command().
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  :headdesk: - popen() in C
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  s/losing/loading/ although the swypo is accurate too.
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  I am TRWTF (JavaScript that never should have been written?)
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  Yes.
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  Java Development from hell (WARNING: redundancy detected)
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  @dkf said:That last one usually happens for political reasons of various types. sigh I think the worst alternative is to hack together a workaround that relies on the bug. If the developers fix their bug some day, our application breaks. If enough developers rely on that bug, it becomes unfixable. (Relying on someone else's bug is not just belgium‍ing bad style, I'd say it is even an Evil Idea™.)
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  FML, this codebase is horrible
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  Discounts. One day, one day, I will tell you about discounts. One day you will know what "simple" and "complex" signify in the face of an utter abomination from before the time when the world was as the mind of man can know.
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  Line wrapping: How does it work?
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  @Gribnit said:The reason for this is obvious. This guy thought the attributes of the span were the only important stuff. You don't know this person. I'd be very hesitant to attribute anything she does with such an inflammatory word as "thought."
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  What is this, I don't even ...
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  Just for fun... ◀ JSON.stringify([1, 2, 3], function (k, o) { return Array.isArray(o) ? o.toSource() : o; }) ▶ ""[1, 2, 3]"" ◀ JSON.parse(JSON.stringify([1, 2, 3], function (k, o) { return Array.isArray(o) ? o.toSource() : o; })) ▶ "[1, 2, 3]" ◀ JSON.parse(JSON.stringify({x: 1, y: 2}, function (k, o) { return Array.isArray(o) ? o.toSource() : o; })) ▶ Object { x: 1, y: 2 } Note: the outer quote marks delimit the string. Inner quote marks aren't escaped because fuck that. Hence the weird string syntax.
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  IEEE Floating-point quiz!
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  When Toddlers Program
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  @PleegWat said:or comments which just duplicate what the code is already telling you. Like this? ... blahblah...; /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // End of AboutDlg.h /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (well, duh, of course it's the end of the file.)
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  Best cpp object destruction ever
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  @Evo said:You won't need RTTI for virtual destructors. The destructor becomes part of the vtable. Yeah, wouldn't surprise me if basic (single inheritance) virtual dispatch was implemented without having to delegate to the RTTI mechanism post-construction...
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  Vendor's Code...
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  That's a matter of taste and practice. Someone that is used to that single-line style would understand it better than a multi-line form. (I'm not sure whether I'm playing Devil's advocate or not) Btw, the if-within-if pattern actually makes sense in languages without short-circuit logical and, like VBA6.
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  Someone has a sense of humour
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  yes, but the inefficiencies are more than made up for by the decrease in arguments about how fair the dice are.
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  Is that a portrait?
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  What about representation for the minorities like: Seascape, mindscape and moonscape? Not to mention the extremists like Farscape!
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  Let's play spot the WTFs!
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  How is Math.Pow() implemented in .NET Framework? I was looking for an efficient approach for calculating ab (say a = 2 and b = 50). To start things up, I decided to take a look at the implementation of Math.Pow() function. But in .NET Reflector, ...
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  What Have I Done to Production?
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  @Shoreline said:This is true, but the fact that IT had to do anything about it seems like an additional . Not really. If you wrote everything out in copperplate handwriting in leather-bound ledgers, with absolutely no computing devices involved at all, you'd still be able to get the identical problem. A prediction is just a prediction, and anyone losing sight of that needs to GTFO…
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  Crappy server panel code
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  It could be worse. It could upload the error message to an FTP site and send you back a plain old HTML page telling you to go and download the document from that site. (I have seen such things in the wild.)
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  Wow, very macro, such usefulness, many sense
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  maybe it's a load-bearing macro
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  Welp, looks like they'll have to skip Java 8
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  @Buddy said:still need to do Logger.getLogger(MyClassNameHolyShitWhyDoINeedToPutTheClassNameHereOhRightItsCauseTheLoggerIsStatic.class) at the top of every class QFT
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  Enum from the dark VB6 corner of our repository
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  No, I meant the produced reports. Who would want to read those?
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  Leap Years&Co.
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  @Bulb said:Well, except they are not, because between +1 and -1 there is 0, but there is nothing between AD 1 and 1 BC. Fortunately, 0 is nothing. :p
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  MyWTF
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  oh, promiň, tu větu jsem si nevšiml :-D
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  " '—All You Zombies—' "
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  :HowNotToDoIt.class:
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  Light sorting
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  And luckily, for the cases where they are justifiable, somebody else has already done the work.
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  Literally wrong
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  Apart from the minor technical detail that the initialiser runs after the constructor
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  SQL In Terror.
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  We have a <our original company name>oid.nextval() procedure that gets called for every single insert. Sometimes it fails; that's just a thing that happens that we've learned to live with (well, they have. I'm sure I'll get there some day). The suffixes on everything are due to our schema having been designed in some kind of visual editor and auto generated. I anonymized out the two letter prefix that's on every table name (the first two letters of our original company name).
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  Coding Confession: how not to use LINQ
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  @flabdablet said:Users are merely functions that accept time as an argument and produce events as output. I say we just memoize the whole lot of them. If they'd just stop sending me memos, that'd be a good start…
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  Automatically generated C source (RNN)
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  RNNs were designed, a long time ago, to overcome the limitations of finite state machines, which is what a Markov chain essentially is. RNNs never got off, though: poverty of input, difficulty training, etc. Some of these problems seem to have been overcome, but still there is no guarantee that an RNN can learn the structure of something as trivial as the C syntax. Generating impressing looking garbage it certainly can, though.
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  My most readable function
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  I miss my MCM-800
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  How the fuck am I supposed to parse this?
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  Let's go directly to Hixie: HTML Standard Comments must start with the four character sequence U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN, U+0021 EXCLAMATION MARK, U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS (<!--​). Following this sequence, the comment may have text, with the additional restriction that the text must not start with a single U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN character (>), nor start with a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character (-) followed by a U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN (>) character, nor contain two consecutive U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS characters (--), nor end with a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character (-). Finally, the comment must be ended by the three character sequence U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN (-->). That clears things up nicely, and doesn't require SGML pendantry. Double-hyphens are forbidden in comment tags, except for the two in the prologue and the two in the epilogue. Now, let's look at the parser implementation... * TwelveBaud reads... Ah. In the event you fuck it up in this way, a parse error is thrown, but if the parser elects to continue it includes the two hyphens and goes directly back to the comment state.
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  A vote for 'Error!Error! Filename not specified' is a vote for WTF
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  @Jaloopa said:the party is apparently clever enough to realise that without him it's just a bunch of racists who nobody likes Now that is unexpected!
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  ‏@ (invalid title)
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  @Onyx said:Dreamcast I̶̟̠͈̘͈̞̹̻̋ͧ̆̆ͭ̂͞T̏̓ͤ͛͊́̄҉͇̜͔͔̟̹ͅͅ'̳̦̬̩͆ͭ̿̉ͫͪ͐ͫ̀S̺̒͛ ̨̛̣̺̬̜ͯ̽͢T̢̩͔̮̪̬̿ͣ̓H͚̤͈͛̄ͣ̔̉̒ͦ́Ḭ̧̲̰̟̥̌̋ͦ́̿̃̾̾ͮ͘N̸̛͎̬̟͉͉̳̗̉ͥ̚K̹̜͙̮̦̺̭̳̯̉̌̊̇͛͂̀͢I͈ͯ̽͛ͬ̇̔N̼̤̺̱͍̙̤̜̥͂͆̍ͥͦG̱̘͍̬̗ͥͥ
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  SQL Server: What does this do?
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  @antiquarian said:So you're justifying it by saying that the rest of the UI is just as bad. No. Consistency is one of many factors that make a good UI. The error handling behavior of the "Design Table" form is better than the obvious alternatives.
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  What is sanitize.
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  @dkf said:And that's also why Windows's way of delegating command argument splitting to the subprocess is such an annoyance; it makes it just so much harder to get this stuff right by construction. The windows way of passing the arguments as single string is _silly_™, but most commands won't do that much evil even if they split wrong if you avoid invoking the shell. Besides, higher-level languages generally have appropriate function to handle this in their standard library.
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  C# annoyed me today, so I took revenge.
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  @another_sam said:compared to the POM bloody Aussies, always bitching about the brits