The Daily WTF Gavin inherited some “very old” C code, originally developed for old Windows systems. The code is loaded with a number
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The Daily WTF Validating inputs matters. It’s also a challenge. Validating that an input is numeric might be easy, but validating an email
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The Daily WTF Henrik H is contracting with a client, and that client uses a number of other contractors. Some of them have… interesting
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The Daily WTF This week has been mostly centered on a holiday for the USians. In the era of online retail and the global dominance of Amazon, the
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The Daily WTF Brittany is a game developer, and frequently ends up working on contracts for other companies. One company wanted her to add some
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