Aug, 2009 the daily wtf, a web site that chronicles curious perversions in information technology, recently introduced a new feature called programming praxis in which simple programming exercises are assigned to readers who post their solutions and discuss the exercise in the comments. While we participate in american traditions, like eating hot dogs without buns, enjoy this classic wtf about a real 455hole. Though there have been a few exceptions over the years, generally speaking, student code, hobbyist code, and amateur code need not apply. Id put them along side soft tokens rsa software versions of their tokens. As they figure out how the business is to be run, they come up with their own ways of doing things. Many offload game mechanics logic from the executable to a scripting language. Olympiad of misguided geeks announces winners of worst. I recently published a post how not to design netflix in your 45minute system design interviewfirst, surprisingly, it got pretty popular. Wtf is the daily wtf founded in 2004 by alex papadimoulis, the daily wtf is your hownotto guide for developing software. Thats five lines of code just to set some ui properties. Special delivery by the daily wtf enterprise irregulars. The 1st and 2nd bit should be swapped, the 3rd and 4th bit should be swapped, and so on.
One example query the software needed to answer was to find the one plan that was the greatest number of challenge units below a certain threshold. And as such, many programmers try their damnedest to avoid it. When a new company is formed, its usually just the owner, possibly some partners, and a small staff. As horrifying and awful as it is, access is actually built with some mechanisms to actually support that you can break the ui and behavior off into one file, while keeping the data in another, and you can actually. The single sign on the daily wtf submitted 9 years ago by batasrki. Let the course staff know if you come across any other interesting and informative web. The blog, run by alex papadimoulis, offers living examples of code that. Mar 26, 2007 since then, the daily wtf has been rechristened worse than failure. The blog, run by alex papadimoulis, offers living examples of code that invites the exclamation wtf and recounts tales of disastrous development, from project management gone spectacularly bad to inexplicable coding choices. This was hr software, so among other things, it would track employees career plans. Software that wasnt built from a spec usually winds up badly designed and the schedule gets out of control. In addition to horror stories, the daily wtf serve as repositor of knowledge and discussion forums for inquisitive web designers and developers and has introduced.
These are the 37 blog posts about nittygritty details of writing lines of code. This is why you never claim that your software will work with any hardware. Submit your blog below if you want to grow your traffic and revenue. Here in the us, tax season is extended into the summer.
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, i got contracted to show a government office how to build and deliver applications in microsoft access. Its boring, its tedious, and its certainly not challenging. The daily wtf, also known as worse than failure for a time, is a blog. Its a clever cool idea, and i like such tricks, but they arent a full blooded solution. You develop the software with a specific hardware in mind and you sell that hardware to the client in the package. Oct 29, 2018 i encountered the realities of being a software engineer and had to acquire many skills that i didnt know i needed. The official dilbert website featuring scott adams dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring dilbert, dogbert, wally, the pointy haired boss, alice, asok, dogberts new ruling class and more. And no matter how much you stretch it, programming is most definitely not sexy. Dec 01, 2009 ive had the daily wtf ever since discovering the sap laundry story there its a hit or miss. The blog, run by alex papadimoulis, offers living examples of code that invites the exclamation wtf what the fuck and recounts tales of disastrous development, from project management gone. Daily coding problem is a mailing list for coding interview problems. Originally published by dave davis on july 10th 2017 there was a time in my life when i first started this whole programming thing when i thought, programming is easy why do you need to go to school for this stuff. The daily wtf maliciously infringes programming praxis. Inedo is a software product company that makes enterprise devops tools, namely buildmaster, proget, and otter.
Yes, microsoft azure was downed by leapyear bug wired. Mike was a server admin at your typical everyday initech. Microsoft has confirmed that wednesdays windows azure outage that left some customers in the dark for more than 12 hours was the result of a software bug triggered by the feb. The alternative is to use various kinds of tools to implement coding conventions without having to hand code them in the original languages. Courtesy the daily wtf this is what ugly code looks like. High wtf rates are commonly understood to correspond with ignorance or stupidity, but in reality they just correspond with a lack of adherence to whatever technological, cultural standards they observer is familiar with.
For example, in python, you might choose to use the assert keyword to, well, assert that something is true. Apr 10, 2020 content sky is a startup launchpad with a selfhelp guide for launching your software startup. Hand coding involves writing functional code or layout directions in the basic languages in which they are compiled. Reading it means that you enjoy your work, youre serious about what you do, and you want to keep improving.
If my math serves me right, that adds up to a crapton of tedious, boring code. Founded in 2004 by alex papadimoulis, thedailywtf is your hownotto guide for developing software. Looking back, it would sure have been nice to know the things i know now. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Software development is a unique profession in that we can use our skills both on the job and for our hobby. Encoding pertains largely to encryption and compression techniques. At some point, code from the replicators programming turns out to be code for a web page, as noted on the daily wtf. Nov 14, 2019 the daily wtf has 3 repositories available.
Founder, the daily wtf the bar for entry into codesod is pretty straight forward. Remy porter is the editorinchief and needs to read your story or see your bad code. Call us immediately if your child uses kali linux, squawks west mids police. We want you to create a piece of software which takes the email we get now and sends a fax to the other department where they will then enter it into the database. Given an unsigned 8bit integer, swap its even and odd bits.
Nonhumorous posts such as programming help content quality. You need to be able to talk to your devs, and if they say insane shit flags should go off. This archive includes a selection of submissions to the daily wtf s omgwtf programming contest. The difference between hard coding and magic numbers dare. Id rather follow a coding standard i completely disagree with than work in code bases where there is none at all. Now add in all the code required to validate and save data from the ui. They sell systems for securing large quantities of keys like for a car dealership or rental agency. It makes it that much harder to learn new parts of the code base.
The worst coding standard ive ever participated in is code bases which had none at all. If youre running a software company, or your main product is software, you really need to take a few software classes. Defensive programming is an important tool in any developers toolbox. Unfortunately, this quest of avoidance often leads towards a. Daily wtf i bet you more than a few people cook the cpld by coding it as an output by accident as force of habit during dev. Softcoding is a computer coding term that refers to obtaining a value or function from some external resource, such as a preprocessor macro, external constant, configuration file, command line argument or database table. My general rule of thumb on committing code is to check in when i have completed a chunk of code and it compiles. The daily wtf is a humorous blog dedicated to curious perversions in information technology. Start challenging contractors and suppliers legally for slipping deadlines and. The reason we find ourselves soft coding is because we fear change. In strictly typed languages, types themselves provide a natural defense against certain classes of bugs, but in loosely typed languages, you may have to be more clear about your assumptions.
Content sky is a startup launchpad with a selfhelp guide for launching your software startup. Inedo also publishes software related products, including release. In addition, the following post types will be removed to preserve the quality of the subreddits content, even if they pass the rule above. As you request not just a few days ago, i removed the words programming praxis from tdwtf. Alex papadimoulis originally invited me to be a guest editor at the daily wtf nearly six months ago. How not to succeed in your 45minute coding interview. The submission behind todays schedule article was withdrawn. Secondly, and even more surprisingly, several people reached out to me asking if there are any tips on what not to do during their coding interviews. The blog, run by alex papadimoulis, offers living examples of code that invites the exclamation wtf what the fuck. I am continually amazed how much better my code becomes after ive had a peer look at it. Nov 27, 2018 in the modern context, encoding is almost always done by a piece of software, which was coded by a programmer. Host and creator of the omgwtf competition, tdwtf is a humorous blog dedicated to delivery a daily dose of humorous it horror stories including tales of disastrous development, project management gone spectacularly bad, and inexplicable coding choices. That said, id like to try something a little different today. The whole point of software hence, the soft is that it can change that it will change.
The difference between hard coding and magic numbers. Its a dependency diagrama representation of interdependence or coupling the black lines between software components the grey dots. About blog the crazy programmer will guide you through the simplest basics of c, c, android, php, sql and many more coding languages. Get exceptionally good at coding interviews by solving one problem every day. Anyone who says that let alone blogs it should immediately be stripped of his software development license, have his keyboard taken away, and be permitted to only use only to cpm. Download32 is source for the daily wtf shareware, freeware download bing picture of the day gadget, newsomatic on the go, daily reading for kids, the accountants partner, the consultants partner, the preschool partner, etc. Wtf rates only have a direct relationship with idiosyncrasies in relation to an observer and his cultural or technological standards. Top 100 programming blogs and websites in 2020 for programmers. Ml from the 1970s has been extraordinarily influential. In code complete, steve notes that the average programmer reads less than one technical book per year. Not the normal fear of change, but the fear that the code we write will have to be changed as a result of a business rule change. Wolfram research is a real company that makes mathematica software.
Blogs such as coding horror, joel on software, or even more humorous websites such as the daily wtf can give you a good idea of what and what not to do as a software engineer. Its ironic, then, that what i wrote ended up being a direct criticism of the daily wtf. I think a welldesigned software is the one that is hack proof and provide high degree of security to the master, catering to the needs of technology. Founded in 2004 by alex papadimoulis, the daily wtf is your hownotto guide for developing software. Being out of town, i didnt have the time to do it any earlier. Once the code is written, the cost of fixing problems is dramatically higher, both emotionally people hate to throw away code and in terms of time, so theres resistance to actually fixing the problems. Multiply that for every field, for every entity, and then by 1. Steve mcconnells code complete 2 is the joy of cooking for software developers.
Otherwise, youre going to be biased solely on how much you. If its larger, i might check in after each logical portion is completed. Apr 11, 2007 the difference between hard coding and magic numbers the site formerly known as the daily wtf has an article entitled soft coding which contains the following excerpt most programmers consider hard coding to be a bad thing. Most programmers consider hard coding to be a bad thing. We recount tales of disastrous development, from project management gone spectacularly bad to inexplicable coding choices. Jun 28, 2019 it remains the mystery at the heart of boeing co. The site formerly known as the daily wtf has an article entitled soft coding which contains the following excerpt. Olympiad of misguided geeks announces winners of worst software creative coding contest by anastvatz 20070619 09. Code of the replicators dollhouse uses the html source which isnt code its markup from the web site for wolfram research in a cracking scene during the episode briar rose. Couldnt we just change the software that sends the email to then send it to the other departments database. If you want to see a good example of when soft coding is actually appropriate, take a look at the modern video game.
Eventually, it reaches critical mass, and all of these rules get quantified into written guidelines. What makes the software this way and how would you change it. It is the opposite of hardcoding, which refers to coding values and functions in the source code. Its the forth of july in the us, where we all take a day off and launch fireworks to celebrate the power of stack based languages. You need this so you can bring it up to your moretechnical management.
Mark bowytz is a contributor to the popular web site the daily wtf. Good to see more proof of all the honest folk working with bitcoin. There was a daily wtf on why that is a horrid idea. Dwtf1 dota 2 failwin compilation submit your clip manda tu video. The harmful entity frameworklinq way of answering this question would be code akin to this.
After reading the disgruntled posts here from long time programmers and hearing so much about ageism and outsourcing, im. We also have a curated digital magazine and resources to help software entrepreneurs and ceos stay sharp and effective. If its a small task, i might not check in until im done it. Coding horror ought to be about people coding dynamic web pages entirely in sql, or having some mission critical system written in a cryptic version of csh. Contribute to tdwtfwtfwebapp development by creating an account on github. Given a word and a string s, find all starting indices in s which are anagrams of word. The daily wtf also called worse than failure from february to december 2007 is a humorous blog dedicated to curious perversions in information technology. In a recent joel on software forum post thinking of leaving the industry, one programmer wonders if software development is the right career choice in the face of broad economic uncertainty. Over time, the staff grows, and more rules are created about how this or that is to be done. As i told you on a few different occasions, i dont have fancy cms software and doing this requires editing the code, compiling, backingup, deploying, etc. The bar for entry into codesod is pretty straight forward. Links to web sites that we recommend you check out for more information. Browsing medium, r programming, hackernews or other feeds will also lead you to good articles and blogs.
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