Needs Dark Glasses
First two lines of a file called monitoring.sh:
Thomas Hehl is a system architect at Heavyweight Software (https://www.heavyweightsoftware.com), author, and all around thinker. He currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Nummers
Somewhere from the facebook api.
That’s what Medusa was
ED: Wonder what application uses a gorgon class?
The Classics
From Apache Xalan source code: Further reading on The Daily WTF.
Icarus would’ve been Proud
A few from the Linux kernel: – –
You know what Happens when you Assume?
A German comment in some source-code, translated by machine or very tired human + Google I guess the original meant “assume true here” … but ever since I’ve taken it as a mantra for my life.
Good Programmers Borrow…
Back in the early eighties, I came across this in assembler (quoting from dim memory):
An Honest TODO
An Honest TODO ED: Evidently never intended to.
Someone needed a Semi-colon
Someone needed a Semi-colon. Using semi-colons in VB.NET
How to Spell
(How to Spell) A modification log I noticed in a legacy code 05/17/99 D JONES COMMENT OUT THE BLOODY AUZIES CODE (02/19/99) 05/17/99 K ROBINSON BLOODY TEXAN CAN’T SPELL AUSSIE CORRECTLY (NO CODE CHANGE – JUST A COMMENT)