[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="witchdoctor"]The GUI for this looks a bit like a video player with a way to mark ranges in the video.[/quote] And that calls out to shell scripts. Can we now all agree that this is a WTF?[/quote] It calls out to unsupported shell scripts where exactly one person has ever seen the ...

The conversion is done by the application in C++ code. The programs that are called by the shell script do more complex tasks than image conversion. One of them does image registration and generates a mosaic from many input images for example. With that one the output mosaic is then converted again in the application into the final output ...

Ok, I admit I'm on a bit of a hair trigger when it comes to declaring things as WTF where I work. It just seemed like an odd way to go about things. Especially because the researchers who write these programs and scripts are nominally on the same team as the people who write the application and are also writing libraries. And most of the ...

[quote user="DrPepper"]OK, so you have data in one format; your programs need it in a different format. The result is written to a third format. You use scripts to convert from the first format to the second; run the programs, and convert the output to the third format. So far, sounds perfectly fine. Rather than spend a lot of ...

Previously I described the WTF that is the version control system in the research-focused institute where I work and mentioned our interesting way of passing a real-time video stream between processes using DBUS and shared memory. Another "interesting" feature of our large application is the offline image processing. A lot of the ...

[quote user="dhromed"][quote user="blakeyrat"]I haven't seen a game use that shitty anti-cheat system in years, thank God.[/quote]  I believe Ubisoft uses it. [/quote] Ubisoft is so shitty that you will never notice the problems that are caused by Punkbuster because they'll get buried in the general problems.

Fun justification I've heard for something similar this week: "The name was already taken so I needed a prefix".

[quote user="Cassidy"][quote user="witchdoctor"]Does anyone have any advice?[/quote]  Those five points you mentioned aren't a drawback of a source control system, they're more a symptom of a badly-used VCS. A VCS is an organisational product like any other - so will require someone to champion it, define ...

Just out of interest if I'm missing anything more and for ammunition when I bring this up again at work I'll make a list of the drawbacks of the source control system described in the OP (most of it is obvious, but I tend to miss the obvious sometimes): Controlled branching/merging and tagging becomes extremely complicated. Every ...

[quote user="Cassidy"]Where - or when - should this be taught?[/quote] For me it was an elective class on QA during my bachelor's. I took it as an additional class and picked a different elective.