I’ve decided to start blogging again (for the third time now…) but I’ve recently been coming across some interesting stuff that I’d like to share without having tell a million different people, pasting different links, well you get the point. Being in software engineering, I’ve recently come across a number of good site, and these ones I’ve been trolling lately. Although reddit’s been around for a while and my classmates frequent it quite often, I’ve just never found the appeal, until now. I was linked to this plee by a friend about a programmer in industry who wants out, and was looking for some insight. I found it endearing that a bunch of “randoms” were able to gave their two cent’s, and gave him a push in the right direction, as well as humorous anecdotes on things they’ve come across. Here are a couple that I had a good laugh at:
“… I want to do something different. I’m also at the highest position an engineer can be in my current gig, so no upward mobility. I’m already at level 80.”
Although the situation isn’t funny, I had a good chuckle at the reference to gaming.
Then there was this:
The worst case I saw was that some application was putting a space ” ” in front of the primary key value. It wasn’t happening every time, just some of the time. Well rather than track down and fix the app that was doing this, they decided to just make sure to include a wildcard search in every single fucking query against the database.
select * from tableX where MyPK like ‘%’ + @SearchPK
Classy.
elbekko:
Congratulations, you’ve just made a thousand DBAs cry.
Having to do query optimization in my studies in database systems I was in shock that somebody would actually deem that an acceptable solution. I I’m sure my professor would have a fit if we ever tried to do anything like that. I then soon learned that there was a site is devoted to coding WTF’s and it’s called The Daily WTF. I had a good laugh and spent a good amount of time on there, it’s like the FailBlog for programmers, and if you don’t know what that is you need to get caught up.
Which brings me to why I even started this post in the first place, and the word of the week. I was trolling on Facebook again and I cam across a mock motivational poster which was in a group called “Do you even have a life?”.. “Im a gamer, I have plenty of lives!” I found it pretty funny.
Sometimes I wonder how many of these photos are staged, although this one’s pretty obvious. It kind of make me want to shoot a series. After all I do have a camera.
