The Daily WTF The power of structured exception handling is that it allows every layer in our stack be notified of an error condition, do

The Daily WTF I am amused to see that Warcraft III is still out there being played. I think it was my son’s first PC game and maybe the

The Daily WTF Alexander doesn’t usually ask “why are you hiring for this position?” during an interview. But when a small

The Daily WTF Seuf sends us some old code, which entered production in 2011. While there have been attempts to supplant it many, many times,

The Daily WTF Jason started work on a C++ application doing quantitative work. The nature of the program involves allocating all sorts of blocks

The Daily WTF We’ve seen so many home-brew string padding functions. And yet, there are still new ways to do this wrong. An endless supply

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The Daily WTF We’ve seen this pattern many times here: return (someCondition) ? true : false; or if (someCondition) { return true; } else {

The Daily WTF Maria was hired as a consultant by a large financial institution. The institution had a large pile of ETL scripts, reports,

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