Comment On Assembles Elucidation

Willow:

So....will that pick-a-number question help you when you can't remember that your password is:

Mike L:

And yet, the fan I bought a few months ago (a normal fan with an on off switch) came with a SEVEN PAGE instruction.

MM:

TRWTF is that it's a message box.

Colin Gormley:

How about 42!

ordie77:

Who wants to bet that the most common answer to "pick a number between 1 and 100" is 69!

TopCod3r:

Willow:

So....will that pick-a-number question help you when you can't remember that your password is:

Right. Shouldn't the security questions, you know, be questions? None of those are questions... "Pick a Flower" doesn't help at all, it should be "What is your favorite flower?"

Same with "pick a number", it should be "What is your lucky number?" or something along those lines. Otherwise you might pick a number like, the current day of the month, but that doesn't help you later.

tpulley:

Justin obviously works for McMenamin's, and didn't try very hard to obfuscate his employer. is that a wtf?

"Soooo," Aske Olsson wondered, "what kind of box is this?"

Sam B:

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MM:

TRWTF is that it's a message box.

..:

I don't see any WTF there. The password is clearly "CASESENSITIVE".

ordie77:

Who wants to bet that the most common answer to "pick a number between 1 and 100" is 69!

dialog = (HugeDialogBox*)malloc(sizeof(HugeDialogBox));



if (dialog == NULL) {

    MessageBox("Cannot create dialog box (Insufficient Memory)");

}

jspenguin:

dialog = (HugeDialogBox*)malloc(sizeof(HugeDialogBox));



if (dialog == NULL) {

    MessageBox("Cannot create dialog box (Insufficient Memory)");

}

What's the WTF? It failed to allocate the memory for a dialog box, so it alerts the user with a relatively small message box.

And it's not like they're putting calls to MessageBox deep in business logic -- this is clearly UI code.

Colin Gormley:

How about 42!

Smash King:

ordie77:

Who wants to bet that the most common answer to "pick a number between 1 and 100" is 69!

42 would be far more likely among geeks

akatherder:

Colin Gormley:

How about 42!

That's your answer to everything.

..:

I don't see any WTF there. The password is clearly "CASESENSITIVE".

silent d:

But then the security question would have to be "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

"I couldn't recall whether I had signed up for Gradsouthwest.com," S.K. wrote, "after submitting the 'Forgotten Username/Password' form, it's pretty clear I must have."

jmucchiello:

MM:

TRWTF is that it's a message box.

Not really, it's just ironic. A message box to tell you something catastrophic happened was probably allocated when Lotus Notes started. This way, when catastrophe (or in this case lack of memory) strikes, you have a ready made dialog with which to inform the user. Windows programming books talked about using this technique all the time throughout the 90s so it wasn't just Lotus being weird.