Meta-programming- programs which generate programs- is a delightful hobby, but usually shouldn't be used in production code. Usually. I mean, if you're working in LISP, 90% of your program is going to be macros. But if you're using PHP and JavaScript, there's good odds that someone you work with has decided to combine these two tastes together to create something nobody wants to taste.

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02.05.2024

Totally Valid - The Daily WTF

Greg's co-worker really wanted to make sure that a variable was correctly set to true or false. So they did this: if (isValid == true) { isValid = true; } else { isValid = false; }

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03.05.2024

Testing 1,2,3,4,5 - The Daily WTF

An anonymous friend sent us our frist test in prod for this week. And then there will be more, and more, and more. "This came up in Kaspersky's Blog's RSS. If you're lucky they might still have the error up in the original URL." I don't know if "chron" is just how "cron" translates to Russian and back, but the test appears to have succeeded.

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06.05.2024

Spaced Out Replacement - The Daily WTF

You have some text, and need to replace every sequence of spaces with a single space. E.g., My text becomes My text. Now, if you're most of us, you ignore the famous quote and reach straight for regexes. But Samuel's co-worker isn't most of us.

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