The Best of WTDWTF!
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Sometimes, I see posts here that are just the most awesome ideas ever, or the funniest, etc. This topic is to highlight the times when the members of this community have come up with something that just bears repeating for Great Justice and wider appreciation.
Idea for an Eclipse plugin:
- Replace every occurrence of "Bean" with "BadgerBadgerBadger"
- Replace every occurrence of "Factory" with "MushroomMushroom"
- Replace every occurrence of "Singleton" with "AaaaaahItsASnake"
FiledUnder: [paulaBadgerBadgerBadger](http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean), [abstractAaaaaahItsASnakeProxyMushroomMushroomBadgerBadgerBadger](http://alvinalexander.com/java/jwarehouse/spring-framework-2.5.3/src/org/springframework/aop/framework/AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean.java.shtml)
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First I was thinking that we should wikify this topic.
Then I was notified by a toaster that this topic is getting old, which means we don't seem to have so much awesome ideas as initially thought.
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We should start a "The Rest of WTDWTF!" topic...
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Is that a challenge to see if Discourse can handle recursion?
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It might be a more interesting challenge to enumerate all the exciting ways in which Discourge fails to handle recursion..
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We should start a "The Rest of WTDWTF!" topic...
Do we really have to rename /t/1000 again?
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No, it's called "Likes " and should remain that way.
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Then I was notified by a toaster that this topic is getting old, which means we don't seem to have so much awesome ideas as initially thought.
Hey, it's up to people to nominate stuff using this
threadtopic. And no, this meta-discussion isn't the best of WTDWTF, not unless we suddenly become more awesome.But the Song of the Day topic is awesome enough collectively, even though there are many tracks I don't care for.
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Our standards are probably a bit high. See: amount of pendantry badges.
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Is that a challenge to see if Discourse can handle recursion?
We need this, so Infinite Scrolling can actually scroll infinitely!
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The topic itself is pure epic:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/enlightened/8795
The followup seems to be a fallout of historic proportions:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/a-new-badge/9148/11?u=onyx
Now, if that isn't something that belongs into this thread, I don't know what is.
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@ben_lubar said:
What if I want to keep my penis?
So you don't want to keep your boobs?I have no further comment.
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So, the only thread on this forum that would actually be a pain in the arse to navigate via paging turns out to be even more trouble given infiniscroll?
AMAZEBALLS
How many times was Jeff told that infiniscroll is a non-solution looking for a problem to solve? Not enough times. That's how many.
QFT
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Top five rules for writing your own date handling code:
- Don't
- Seriously, don't
- I mean it, don't!
- Are you kidding me? I said don't!
- Fine. But don't expect me to help you when it blows up in your face.
The list has all items numbered 1 in preview. Let's see what happens...
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The list has all items numbered 1 in preview. Let's see what happens...
Formatting within quotes is Doing It Wrong™.
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That 2 months later should show a calendar icon not a clock icon
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Hmm, a calendar that looks like a clock...short hand for months, long hand for days. This could be a good ThinkGeek product.
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That 2 months later should show a calendar icon not a clock icon
Always with the moaning!I agree btw
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To me a calendar suggests scheduling, not passage of time; which a clock does.
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I was thinking something like this
or
though you'd have to flatten it to fit the dischorse theme and it'd probably lose all meaning then.
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And don't forget making it grey or blue ;)
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You know where the fail.d bikeshed is.
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And don't forget making it grey or blue ;)
... and whether it should be : or or an option in /admin/site_settings...
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And don't forget making it grey or blue
...and make it sing "Happy Holidays" like in that episode of the Simpsons where Ol' Gil comes to stay with the family but he's there for like a whole year...
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You know what, I think I might just be Transsexiestmanintheworld.
Therefore, all women must love me, or they deny my identity. This is in no way taking advantage of anyone, because it's how I feel.
+∞
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@boomzilla said:
<recommended in thread>Counterterrorism analysts affiliated with the U.S. Army tell NBC News that the ISIS help desk, manned by a half-dozen senior operatives around the clock, was established with the express purpose of helping would-be jihadists use encryption and other secure communications in order to evade detection by law enforcement and intelligence authorities.
They probably outsource it like everyone else. Except it's cheaper to outsource to a first world country.
:phone: ring
{with heavy Texas accent barely disguised} Howdy, y'all, and Aloha Actbar. I'm Moo Ham Eed. How may I help you today?
My suicide bomb vest is not working.
Well shucks I'm sorry to hear that. We here at ISIS pride ourselves on a good product, and good customer service. Let's see if we can't help you with that today. First, y'all, have you tried turning it off and on again?
Of course I have, I am not an infidel Jew idiot!
Alley forbid that, Sir. It's just a standard step they make us take. Look, if y'all could favor me up there, and try it anyways, just so I can check that box.
Fine, very well, but I don't see why thistatic
Well, I'll just go right on ahead and mark this one as "solved". Thanks for calling ISIS help desk. If y'all wouldn't mind doing a short survey after the call, I'd right appreciate it. Aloha Actbar and praise Moo Ham Eed.
:phone:
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https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/fire-discomafia-how-would-it-work-epic-megadixx/53472/31?u=onyx
Filed under: Charge to +100 Internets... CLEAR!
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Just found these prophetic words from May 2014:
@codinghorror Frankly, I'd have paid Alex to keep us OFF any platform I had a relationship with. Seriously.
Mad props for the punishment gluttony.
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https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/918025
Onebox? Yes? No? Maybe?
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Let me rescue this rant out of a godforsaken thread:
@Shoreline said in When the reviewer doesn't understand my Javascript it's his fault:
@HardwareGeek said in When the reviewer doesn't understand my Javascript it's his fault:
@Shoreline said in When the reviewer doesn't understand my Javascript it's his fault:
I've worked in 3 places which habitually both told me how long I had and demanded estimates.
Manglement: How long will it take to do $task?
Engineering: $task will take X time.
Manglement: $task will be done in X/3.Hey! That's my story.
But yeah that exact thing happened somewhere and I'm mildly startled that I can't see where I wrote it first (that's some twilight zone shit). In my first year of my career I was asked how long it would take me to build half a medium-sized commercial website. I estimated six weeks. He said "that's too long", and left an awkward pause presumably to make me talk, so I asked "how long do I have?" and he tells me "two weeks". I said "Ok? I'll try.".
Caving to management bullying by stupidly agreeing to their bullshit demands was a minor mistake on my part. Like, what were the consequences going to be? I wouldn't pass my probation? Fine. Fuck 'em.
No, my TRWTF was that I put my own unpaid time into trying to meet their BS deadline. That included all the UK spring bank holidays, easter weekend (including good Friday) and several late nights. "That's not so bad," you think "I've worked longer hours." I'm sure you have, but I already foreshadowed the next bit: I didn't pass probation. I was accused of being "sloppy", a crime for which they'd conveniently singled out me, working in an environment with no process (I later found out this is called a "creative environment", ha ha ha), and without the time I needed to complete the task I was doing for them, which I'd invested from my own personal time.
So TRWTF was that I gambled a bunch of my personal time, having bought into some dumbass fucking fiction that my time wasn't worth very much, and won exactly nothing for it. If I hadn't sunk it into my work I would have failed probation anyway and been a lot happier in the process.
There was nothing I could do for the business, of course. I found out later they continually shrank/grew and had been doing so for about ten years (probably counted as a "startup" lol). Last time I checked they were operating out of the director's front room in his house, rather than the done-up barn with wasps in the middle of a field outside of TOWN_NOT_FOUND.
So now when people are like "what's your weekend availability" I'm just like "Oh no! I have plans! Alas! If only you'd asked about six months ago when I planned my WEEKENDS AND EVENINGS WHICH YOU NOW WANT ME TO WORK ON! Such a shame!" None of which I say at all, but making them give me weeks of notice to work outside of hours might hypothetically prompt my current workplace to actually plan things properly rather than give personal hobby projects to multi-million-pound (yes, I'm British) contracts without taking the opportunity to fix up the code.
I read somewhere on this forum once that nothing before your 1st year of your career counts as a RWTF because before your 1st year you're going to be shit. I'm ok with that, because my WTF would be some of the dumbest shit I've ever done, and I once accidentally deleted 10% of a raw advertising stats table and replaced it with dev data without noticing.
Kids, don't do what I did. Your time is precious regardless of what the capitalist oligarchs tell you. You have worth beyond your earnings. You're not and never will be a mechanical factory of productivity owned by a dude with money no matter how much they want you to believe that that's the goal. Work ethic is doing the job you're paid for and ambitiously throwing your time and money into things to get back a career or more money or whatever. It is not throwing your time into random shit because a dude told you to.
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So remember kids, don't do
drugsfree overtime! It's bad for your health.And go upvote the original if you like.
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@JBert I accept your kindness.
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Sometimes people around you make an unexpected insightful remark and you smile because the world makes sense for just a sliver of a moment.
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This one is no such remark, but it does describe this website and its denizens when you stop and think about it:
@boomzilla to Gribnit:
You save all your nonsense for us?
@Gribnit said in Programming Confessions Thread:
Compartmentalization. Yes. This is my mental catbox.