The Minority Report

I swear I’m not going to comment on every DailyWTF…

I couldn’t help myself this morning when I read this and couldn’t stop giggling. See if you can spot the problem.

One time, out of boredom, 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. At least in theory. I somehow never encountered a file with a “two” bit. But I got one key component right – an understanding of the valid range of values.

Rob K.’s colleague didn’t even get that far.

private static final String[] HEX_STRING_VALUES = {“0″, “1″, “2″, “3″,
“4″, “5″, “6″, “7″, “8″, “9″, “10″, “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”, “E”, “F”};

Some Crazy Reason – The Daily WTF

Oh it get’s worse and you are going to have to read the entire post because of the wacky “solution” to the problem.

p.s. I was searching for a cool hexadecimal image to include with the article and this one came up on Google Image search. Can someone care to explain why?

p.p.s. I couldn’t find anything good so I made that one above. Amazing what a little Courier New will do…