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    | The Daily WTF
    Today's anonymous submitter sends us a short snippet. They found this because they were going through code committed by an expensive third-party contractor, trying to track down a bug: every report in the database kept getting duplicated for some reason. This code has been in production for over a d [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    Three blind anonymice are unbothered by the gathering dark as we approach the winter solstice. Those of you fortunate enough to be approaching the summer solstice are no doubt gloating. Feel free, we don't begrudge it. You'll get yours soon enough. Here we have some suggestions from a motley crew of [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    We recently asked for some of your holiday horror stories. We'll definitely take more, if you've got them, but we're going to start off with Jessica, who brings us not so much a horror as an omen. Jessica writes: I work for a company in the UK which writes legal software for law firms. This raises [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    (Read Part 1 here) By the 10-month mark of her job search, Ellis still lacked full-time employment. But she had accumulated a pile of knowledge and advice that she wished she'd started with. She felt it was important to share, in hopes that even one person might save some time and sanity: Th [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    When writing software, we like our code to be clean, simple, and concise. But that loses something, you end up writing just some code, and not The Code. Mads's co-worker wanted to make his code more definite by using this variable naming convention: public static void addToListInMap(final Map theMap [...]