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  • Requirements

    We process our customers by breaking their entire record sets into fairly large batches of records. We also allow individual interactive users to update their own records. If you happen to be running the batch for customer X and a client of customer X happens to interactively try to update their own records, and the timing is just right, one or ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-22-2013
  • Re: The new management is kicking a**

    [quote user="eViLegion"] So, you're basically warning us that TDWTF is gonna really suck from now on?[/quote] This forum is awesome - I've only been working at WTF-Inc for a couple of years. If the material that stems therefrom dries up, there's still everyone else who works at their own variant of WTF-Inc. ... Bring it ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-16-2013
  • The new management is kicking a**

    So here at WTF-Inc, they promoted the WTF leadership into positions deep within the bowels of MegaCorp - where they can do no more harm (at least to us), and replaced them with new managers. A few changes have been made regarding hiring better quality developers, firing of incompetent DBAs, etc. Things were looking up. We are presently ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-16-2013
  • Re: Don't worry; we'll stall them.

    When it comes time to do this particular work, make absolutely sure it's late, and in the middle of something else that's higher priority; let the sales rep squirm. Then make sure that most of the work does not fall in the commission-generating category. That will slow down this sort of idiocy.
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-15-2013
  • Re: The Pipe

    [quote user="Steve The Cynic"]"heavy duty production servers, each with 16-3.2GHz cores" Um, no. With 16 cores, they are no heavy duty. I worked for a while at ((large financial information provider)), and we had production servers with 192 cores.[/quote] Me too, but compared to the other junk around here, they are (by ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-15-2013
  • The Pipe

    We have 64 heavy duty production servers, each with 16-3.2GHz cores, each of which is running a thread of our application to crunch data. Some threads read, some crunch data and some write results. In production, for each core there is an I/O "pipe" through which I/O to the network (and by extension the databases on the SANs) is ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-14-2013
  • Re: My computing practical exam source code.

     [quote user="flabdablet"]<experienced view>[/quote]Agreed.
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-12-2013
  • JUnit Test

    Why?:  public class TestJavaLibraries { /** * Verify the library code still caches intern'd strings */ @Test public void testCachingInternedStrings() { String a = "Hello"; String b = new StringBuilder("Hello").toString(); assertFalse(a == b); assertTrue(a.intern() == b.intern()); } ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-09-2013
  • Re: Kids today...

    [quote user="Lorne Kates"]Bachelor of Dumbfuckery[/quote] May I use that?
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-07-2013
  • Re: KosherSwitch

    [quote user="rakdver"] [quote user="snoofle"] Then again, you open/close a door knob to leave your house too; are they going to make an indirect thingamabob for that too? [/quote]  Actually, turning the knob is not forbidden.  Whether using an electric switch is forbidden or not is controversial -- it depends ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by snoofle on 05-01-2013
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