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The first one is no WTF. Haven't you heard of bistromathmatics?
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2 clean sheets in one week. I must be on a roll
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I can't quit you, Excel, so I'm gonna put you down for awhile.
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TRWTF is a 12% penalty for not paying your bill on time.
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That Discover "statement" could make sense depending on what your average daily balance and APR were. You paid it off, but then you charged another $182 and interest or other charges were added to that. I don't see a WTF.
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ImgBurn has several messages like that one. But it is a great piece of software.
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You don't see a WTF in not showing an itemized list of those extra charges?
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That's probably not the only view of account information available.
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I've gotten that excel dialog, happens sometimes when you try to shut down the computer with excel running. You have to close excel by hand when that dialog appears.
Of course I've seen better dialogs from Excel, including one that says in effect: "You can't open two files with the same name, even if they are in different folders". It's real, it happens, and it is VERY annoying!
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The local help store one makes perfect sense to me. To rephrase it, "we have to put this somewhere that can be accessed by all users."
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Flipped screen not a wtf, tis an electrical failure - saw same artefacts many times.
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There could be a charge on the Discover card that hasn't cleared yet (and maybe not even showing as pending) but is counting toward the total credit, and as a result, the balance.
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Or perhaps there was a $68 charge made on May 19, 2010, after the last statement was posted. Since the activity period selected is "Since May 19, 2010" rather than "Since last statement" it would not be included.
It's still a load of crap, but at least it doesn't require too many evil gnomes to be trying to steal money from Bill T's credit card.
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So we get a wtf yesterday of someone pushing a button too many times and people griping over how 'As developers we should account for that'. Then today we get a wtf of a pretty sweet notice to the user that 'Hey we know you pushed that button be patient' and that also is considered a wtf. This site is so rapidly going downhill.
captcha: odio - Odio's tdwtf I believe your standards have slipped.
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Seeing ATM errors makes me cringe... They need some master "CANCEL/UNDO" button on each screen until cash is given, standard on all ATMs (but could you even trust that?).
What do you do when you get errors like that and the bank's closed? If you just enter something, you could be in for a long fight with your bank if the error clears out and overdraws/locks your account. If you wait or just leave it, what's to say the next person gets their account and not yours.
I may have just talked myself into cancelling ATM access to my account o_O
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New math... new-hoo-hoo math...
Akismet failed in new math :-(
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Your statement is far more readable than that piece of garbage in the dialog.
Does that reader say "Please remove card. No Chip Detected"? I wasn't sure about "Chip".
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This comment should not be construed to imply that I do not agree with those who say the message about not storing help files in folders that can not be accessed by all users is not confusing, nor do I fail to contradict the negative assessment of those naysayers who neither contend that the message is understandable nor stop their withdrawal of support from those who don't agree with this disagreement.
Glad we cleared that up.
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Yes, Discover doesn't show holds anywhere on their site that I can find, which is something of a WTF itself. So there are purchases that haven't been completed yet since the last statement. "Since X Date" and "Since last statement" are synonymous on all my credit cards' online viewers, so there's no purchase that snuck into a gap. Once the merchant reconciles their outstanding transactions the $68 will appear.
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Except that it's a local help store, which I read as for the current user. The sentence "We need to put this in a place that is NOT accessible to all users, because you are installing it only for the current user." would be better.
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WTFs don't always have to be bad.
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It's pretty simple. If the user initiates an action that will take time to complete, show them an "in progress" indicator. If you're not able to do anything else while the action is in progress, they should be prevented from entering any other input.
Allowing more input (whether that silently kicks off more "action" like yesterday's example or responds with a "funny" error message like today's example) is unhelpful and confusing to the user, hence WTF.
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i'm sorry, we don't take Discover!
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Some panels do not bring out a hardware reset pin, but publish a recommended startup command sequence. If you don't follow this exactly, 99 times out of 100 everything is fine but occasionally the drivers aren't initialised correctly and you get the default settings.
We had several products which used to do this, and everybody accepted it 'just happened'. When I took over the code, I added the manufacturer's recommended startup command sequence, and we rarely saw the problem again. On later products, I ensured that the panel had a hardware reset line; this completely solved the issue.
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Microsoft Excel... I wish I knew how to quit you!
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The guy who was hoping to skim some debit cards put the display back in incorrectly :P.
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"how exactly do I search for this file name?"
ۻ.
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One of these days, and it won't be long, you'll look for me but baby I'll be gone.
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Because I'm a data hog and want to keep all of the help information to myself and not let anybody else see it.
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Or, I have a 2 TB HD, so I can fit a copy of the help library in every user's directory.
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TRWTF is Discover Card. I only know one person who uses it and, let's just say, it fits his personality.
I view the ImgBurn MsgBox as an Easter egg. Cute, not broken.
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You can never quit me, so stop trying.
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I think the point is that it doesn't let him choose a directory
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Know that even as I grow and spread my wings, I'll always be here for you, baby.