The Daily WTF The power of SQL is that you describe to the database what you want, and the database figures out how to execute that query as
The Daily WTF Melissa was trying to figure out why an old application wasn’t writing out a data file when commanded to do so. It was an
The Daily WTF Mr. TA inherited some C# code that communicates with a humidity and a temperature sensor. Each sensor logs a series of datapoints
The Daily WTF Laurie has been supporting an internal application for a few years. The code is a mess, and while she wasn’t at the company
The Daily WTF Winter is coming to New Mexico this year with a vengeance. It should be fine if you just stay out of the wind. First, to get this
The Daily WTF In the cinematic classic They Live, the protagonist is a drifter named “Nada”- nothing. Zizek derives much meaning from
The Daily WTF Dom works on a codebase which has fallen victim to Greenspun’s Tenth Rule. Yes, they’ve implemented a user
The Daily WTF One of the secret powers of a relational database system, is that the query describing the data you want and the execution path for
The Daily WTF Several months ago, Rebecca‘s predecessor wrote some Perl code to traverse a JSON-esque data-structure. It was an hash map
The Daily WTF No fail merges today, no fexts or flubstitutes. Just flubs, subbed by a pantheon of old hands. I think everyone represented has