Frequently in programming, we can make a tradeoff: use less (or more) CPU in exchange for using more (or less) memory. Lookup tables are a great example: use a big pile of memory to turn complicated calculations into O(1) operations. So, for example, implementing itoa, the C library function for turning an integer into a character array (aka, a string), you could maybe make it more efficient using a lookup table.

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14.05.2025

Exactly a Date - The Daily WTF

Alexandar sends us some C# date handling code. The best thing one can say is that they didn't reinvent any wheels, but that might be worse, because they used the existing wheels to drive right off a cliff. try { var date = DateTime.ParseExact(member.PubDate.ToString(), "M/d/yyyy h:mm:ss tt", null); objCustomResult.PublishedDate = date; } catch (Exception datEx) { }

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15.05.2025

A Jammed Up Session - The Daily WTF

Andre has inherited a rather antique ASP .Net WebForms application. It's a large one, with many pages in it, but they all follow a certain pattern. Let's see if you can spot it. protected void btnSearch_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ArrayList paramsRel = new ArrayList(); paramsRel["Name"] = txtNome.Text; paramsRel["Date"] = txtDate.Text; Session["paramsRel"] = paramsRel; List<Client> clients = Controller.FindClients(); //Some other code }

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16.05.2025

Teamwork - The Daily WTF

Whatever would we do without teamwork. David doesn't know. "Microsoft Teams seems to have lost count (it wasn't a very big copy/paste)"

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