I've got a buddy that works for a rather large company here in town, doing C++ programming on government projects. The other day I received an email with this little tidbit...
I recently completed this project that was scheduled for 3 months in about a month and a half, and it was frowned upon by management.
Needless to say, he's got some spare time on his hands now. Aparently, quite a bit, because he sent me this hillarious PowerPoint presentation today. Basically, it's him griping about life at XYZ Company (name changed to protect the innocent). It's a real life version of the Daily WTF. In fact, some of these examples should be submitted!!
It's a witty and enjoyable clickthrough.. here's a few highlights...
Here’s a class from one of my cohorts. As you can see, it’s a singleton.
Hmm… the only variables that retain a state in this class are the instance of the class, itself, and a mutex used for creating that instance.
Why would you need to implement a singleton pattern for a class that contains no state information?
