The Daily WTF Rachel is doing some Python/Django work on an application that, among other things, handles a pile of Internet addresses, a mix of
The Daily WTF Circa 1999, Drake C was working on a video game for a large publisher. The game in question was a flight simulator with multiplayer
The Daily WTF As we frequently discuss here, many versions ago, Java added functional programming expressions, which can allow a developer to
The Daily WTF Today’s amusements include a couple of twofers: one from a mouse, and two not-quite-canonical Error’ds that still
The Daily WTF A common anti-pattern is the “expanded conditional”. You know the drill: if (a == b && b != c) { return true; }
The Daily WTF Alyssa worked in a shop building small runs of custom hardware. Recently, she tackled a project that involved an Arduino talking to
The Daily WTF Here’s one you’ve seen before. Somebody Fran works with heard that magic numbers were bad, and that you should use
The Daily WTF For twenty years, Initech didn’t have any sort of internal IT or anyone doing any sort of cohesive software purchasing or
The Daily WTF As always, dates are hard, memory management is hard, and localization is hard, but nothing, nothing is as hard as multiplication.
The Daily WTF Veteran developer and frequent contributor, Argle, once worked for a company which handled shipping. On April 3rd, 1988, a C