• (cs)

    Yay I got mine!

    Umm frist!

    Can't wait to get it!

    Captcha= (I ate mine, it was tasty)

  • freelancer (unregistered)

    The picture: That's just...wrong... What's up with the wooden table anyway? Did I miss an article or something?

  • (cs) in reply to freelancer
    freelancer:
    The picture: That's just...wrong... What's up with the wooden table anyway? Did I miss an article or something?

    Ahh the smell of fresh users, welcome aboard! (ie. you must be new here)

  • (cs)

    I snail mailed mine last Friday.. I have been waiting with bated breath. heh

  • (cs) in reply to freelancer
    freelancer:
    The picture: That's just...wrong... What's up with the wooden table anyway? Did I miss an article or something?

    Web 0.1 aka "Print it out, put it on a wooden table, take a photo of it..."

  • guy (unregistered)

    The real WTF is the guy running Vista!

    I kid.

  • Martin (unregistered)

    It looks like he's running Word 2.0 (or whatever) in a Windows 3.1.. virtual machine?

    It's sick, anyway.

    Catcha: Atari.. oh, that's what it is..

  • (cs)

    That double-wooden-table thing made me laugh out loud. Luckily, nobody else is in the office yet.

    I wish I had a wooden table :(

  • (cs)

    Can I have a sticker if I send you a couple of poorly written articles for publication, or something?

  • (cs)

    "Snail mail"? Is that some sort of new email provider I haven't heard of yet? I'm always behind the times on these things...

  • Mine was better if it ever got there (unregistered)

    I sent in a print out of a 2x photo copied of a photo of my desktop that ran a linux shell script asking for the sticker, this screen shot was then off my monitor with a cheap 15$ camera then printed and then that photo was taken on a the back of my cat! it was great

    Captcha = (hang on ill take a photo of that)

  • (cs)

    That is a (new) classic!

  • (cs)

    "When they realize the irreparable damage they’ve done to their careers, we remind them, you should’ve interned at FogCreek."

    As an avid JoS reader, I laughed hard at this. Joel really overstresses how great he treats his interns there, for sure. He wrote something like 5 articles all about the hiring process (which were informative but basically read like big ads for how great Fog Creek is).

  • (cs)

    the picture of a picture of a screenshot... and so many wooden tables! my week is complete, thank you.

  • InternEric (unregistered)

    And the real WTF here is that I quit my job at Caribou Coffee to work for Alex, only to be rewarded with runs to go get coffee! The irony is staggering, let me tell you.

  • W & T & F (unregistered)

    What's the point with the Captcha's ? They seem to be a bit off it's true defenition? What gives?

  • Magus (unregistered)

    What are the dimensions of the sticker? (Or, more to the point, what do the dimensions of the SASE need to be for the sticker to fit inside?)

    While I'm asking questions, is the sticker weather-resistant with high-strength glue? (How will it do on a car bumper?)

  • RW (unregistered)

    Hey, that's Royce Hall from UCLA!

    • gonna be going past that on my way to class later *
  • bramster (unregistered) in reply to Saladin
    Saladin:
    "When they realize the irreparable damage they’ve done to their careers, we remind them, you should’ve interned at FogCreek."

    As an avid JoS reader, I laughed hard at this. Joel really overstresses how great he treats his interns there, for sure. He wrote something like 5 articles all about the hiring process (which were informative but basically read like big ads for how great Fog Creek is).

    Actually, I think Joel stresses the productivity he gets out of his interns by treating them well. Have you been paying attention?

  • Ander (unregistered)

    Is it possible to send those sticker to Estonia too? Or is this "campaign" US&A only?

  • nordberg (unregistered)

    You can get the bumper version here...

    http://www.stampandshout.com/shop/bumper-stickers/oval-wtf.php

  • (cs) in reply to bramster
    bramster:
    Actually, I think Joel stresses the productivity he gets out of his interns by treating them well. Have you been paying attention?
    Tomato, tomato I guess. To me those articles read with constant undertones of "wow, we here at Fog Creek are so great and generous, look at everything we blow money on!"

    I know his point was that it increases productivity and that's certainly true, but it got a little tiring reading him go on and on about how Fog Creek is apparently the world's best employer and how he likes to buy Aeron chairs and 30" LCD monitors for everyone.

    I love his articles and the points they deliver, most certainly, but it feels like an advertisement (or, at least, pointless bragging) sometimes.

  • freelancer (unregistered) in reply to emurphy
    emurphy:
    freelancer:
    The picture: That's just...wrong... What's up with the wooden table anyway? Did I miss an article or something?

    Web 0.1 aka "Print it out, put it on a wooden table, take a photo of it..."

    Now I get it, thanks! :D

    @CapitalT: Been here since January. So yeah, pretty new. Greate place to be :)

  • micksam7 (unregistered)

    The real WTF is the version of word he is using.

  • (cs)

    So now that the week is up, the gag's over, right? He's changing the name back to DailyWTF?

  • Jeronimo (unregistered)

    If I give you my email address can you email the sticker to me?

    CAPTCHA: Sanitarium

  • Henry (unregistered)

    Mail? What is that?

  • Michael V (unregistered)

    The usage of Win31 in Qemu on Vista is just a joke... Trying to make my submission fit the website :) I thought that would be obvious... either that or the replies to the contrary are sarcasm and I'm experiencing a sarchasm.

    Mike

  • (cs) in reply to KattMan
    I coded the form to check the day’s count before loading , not after submitting.

    Isn't that a WTF in itself? This way, you have absolutely no way of controlling the upper limit of successful form submissions - lucky you stocked up on them stickers. :P

  • (cs)

    The real WTF (the real worse than failure? eh?) is how Alex discriminated against us West Coast programmers. I mean who in their right mind gets up before 9:03 am, on a weekday? (Oh wait I did today, but that was only cause I was going boarding)

  • Sam (unregistered)

    By the way, the 'lets scan it' way of doing a homepage is still going strong. Our local cinema just changed their webdesign to this old and trusted approach:

    http://www.51stufen.de/

  • Vector (unregistered) in reply to chrismcb
    chrismcb:
    The real WTF (the real worse than failure? eh?) is how Alex discriminated against us West Coast programmers. I mean who in their right mind gets up before 9:03 am, on a weekday? (Oh wait I did today, but that was only cause I was going boarding)

    What about us poor Eastern Australians, eh? 4AM!!! 4, damnit!

    captcha: alarm! red alert! beam me up, Mr. Scott! Fire the photon torpedoes!

  • (cs) in reply to chrismcb
    chrismcb:
    The real WTF ... is how Alex discriminated against us West Coast programmers. I mean who in their right mind gets up before 9:03 am, on a weekday?

    That's nothing! I'm in San Francisco and Alex calls me at 5:30am every weekday to get me to print out and take a picture of that day's Code Snippet so I can scan it and email it to him, just so he can type it in and get it on the site by 6:00am.

  • (cs) in reply to Martin
    Martin:
    It looks like he's running Word 2.0 (or whatever) in a Windows 3.1.. virtual machine?

    It's sick, anyway.

    Yea i think that was the deliberate WTF.

    How did he preserve his DOS and Windows 3.1 diskettes to install onto a virtual machine? His machine still has a 5.25" drive?

  • DamienSturdy (unregistered)

    Haha, those ol 5.25" disk drives were awesome. I still have mine...

    However, Win3.1 came on the 3.5" disks too.

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to DamienSturdy
    DamienSturdy:
    Haha, those ol 5.25" disk drives were awesome. I still have mine...

    However, Win3.1 came on the 3.5" disks too.

    I've still got a stack of Win 3.11 and Office (some version or other) 3.5" floppies in the back of a cupboard somewhere.

    IIRC Windows was only about 15-20 floppies, but Office was a monster. And obviously Murphy's Law stood up to testing, every time you tried installing Office off the floppies you ended up on the phone trying to scrounge a working disk 30 or something.

  • Brimstar (unregistered)

    I actually have a copy of Win 3.11 on CD. Came with a old Gateway 2000.

  • DamienSturdy (unregistered) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    DamienSturdy:
    Haha, those ol 5.25" disk drives were awesome. I still have mine...

    However, Win3.1 came on the 3.5" disks too.

    I've still got a stack of Win 3.11 and Office (some version or other) 3.5" floppies in the back of a cupboard somewhere.

    IIRC Windows was only about 15-20 floppies, but Office was a monster. And obviously Murphy's Law stood up to testing, every time you tried installing Office off the floppies you ended up on the phone trying to scrounge a working disk 30 or something.

    I have two copies of Win3.1 on floppy- and dos 6.22 haha! There are 8 disks for win3.1- I wouldn't want to install office by floppy though, I had enough of a problem keeping the Win3.1 disks working!

    Win95 was 15 floppy disks I think. How it grew to 200mb from 15 floppies I don't know. Its funny how the old Office versions were bigger than their proceeding versions of windows!

  • thequux (unregistered) in reply to DamienSturdy
    DamienSturdy:
    Jim:
    DamienSturdy:
    Haha, those ol 5.25" disk drives were awesome. I still have mine...

    However, Win3.1 came on the 3.5" disks too.

    I've still got a stack of Win 3.11 and Office (some version or other) 3.5" floppies in the back of a cupboard somewhere.

    IIRC Windows was only about 15-20 floppies, but Office was a monster. And obviously Murphy's Law stood up to testing, every time you tried installing Office off the floppies you ended up on the phone trying to scrounge a working disk 30 or something.

    I have two copies of Win3.1 on floppy- and dos 6.22 haha! There are 8 disks for win3.1- I wouldn't want to install office by floppy though, I had enough of a problem keeping the Win3.1 disks working!

    Win95 was 15 floppy disks I think. How it grew to 200mb from 15 floppies I don't know. Its funny how the old Office versions were bigger than their proceeding versions of windows!

    I've still got all 6 disks for Win3.1, and the 7 or 8 for "Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0". IIRC, there was no "office" at that point. I also have the 8 disks for Word Perfect 5.1 (that last decent word processor), and MultiMate Advantage. And, I have a computer that can't run anything newer than WP51.

    Oh, and that background image... the night version is available at http://linux.ucla.edu/~thequux/IMG_0908.JPG

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