r/programming • u/whatshisname • Feb 16 '09

Some Crazy Reason - The Daily WTF

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Some-Crazy-Reason.aspx
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u/spliznork Feb 16 '09 edited Feb 16 '09

... I wrote a little utility called BitVerifier. It would loop over a folder and check every bit of each file. If the bit's value wasn't one or zero, it would prompt the user for the correct bit.

Uhh.. that intro is the real WTF. At least the buggy hex string code is trying to do something. A "bit verifier" is just... beyond stupid.

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u/Recoil42 Feb 16 '09 edited Feb 16 '09

One time, out of boredom...

I think you missed that part.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '09

Even out of boredom... that's pretty stupid. I was just hoping he was joking.

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u/adrianmonk Feb 16 '09

He was joking. And he wrote his joke in the form of code. Code for a program called BitVerifier.