• hmphargh (unregistered)

    engrish strikes again

  • randomdreamer (unregistered)

    My sarcasm radar is going off the chart !!

    CAPTCHA: pinball

  • MeMe (unregistered)

    Apparently, this program only accepts 'non-useful' file formats.

  • Quietust (unregistered)

    Looks like some sort of half-assed attempt at a haiku, except the first line is too long.

  • javascript jan (unregistered)

    the real wtf? in form it is a haiku- That is not sarcasm.

  • popester (unregistered)

    I could have sworn he was going for a haiku.

  • Stormy (unregistered)

    your icon is not a type that I recognize please try another

  • Sizer (unregistered)

    You just have to pronounce 'format' as one syllable. You can do it!

  • Sauron (unregistered) in reply to Sizer

    Or pronounce 'a' in zero syllables! You can do it too!

  • Bill (unregistered) in reply to javascript jan

    Not quite a Haiku though

    I always learned 575 - not 675... But that could be a bad translation as well

  • JelloGoesWiggle (unregistered)

    I think we've all learned something useful from this:

    Coders don't make good poets.

  • Ben (unregistered)

    Defining a haiku as a 5-7-5 poem is a little like defining a computer as a box that hums and blinks.

  • (cs) in reply to JelloGoesWiggle
    JelloGoesWiggle:
    I think we've all learned something useful from this:

    Coders don't make good poets.

    In fairness though, most poets don't make good poets either.

  • (cs)

    A file of that type? It might be very useful. Here it will not work.

    There I fixed it right.
    No more WTF for you. Wait till tomorrow.

  • Konstructor (unregistered)

    Looks like japaneese hokku :)

  • Uncle Dunc (unregistered) in reply to Ben
    Ben:
    Defining a haiku as a 5-7-5 poem is a little like defining a computer as a box that hums and blinks.

    Yes, necessary but not sufficient.

  • BillT (unregistered)

    Reminds me of an error (attributable to me, alas) that was floating around for a while: "That won't work on this puny chassis." More entertainingly, one of the other developers would get bombarded by this message while working, and didn't know why he kept getting told he had a puny chassis. I nearly laughed myself out of my chair when he described trying to work while keep getting told "That won't work on this puny chassis" on the console he was typing on.

  • darren (unregistered) in reply to Zylon

    and most coders are not good coders

  • (cs)

    I wrote a couple Subversion commit log messages in Haiku in a project a few months ago:

    refactoring cbi_doStuff was long not as much now

    (cbi_doStuff was the wonderful name one of our functions had. It was similar in concept to a main function though, hence the vague name. Actually, reading this again, looks like I got the number of syllables wrong.)

    the CBI stuff that was in main.cc now has its own file

    parsing file.c makes file.instr.i with instrumented code

  • (cs) in reply to darren
    darren:
    and most coders are not good coders
    True, but I'd still rather listen to a poem by a coder than use code by a poet.
  • Scooter Libby (unregistered)

    Nothing to say so I simply echo the captcha test: smile!

  • Rafael (unregistered) in reply to EvanED

    You huge nerd. But still very cool. :)

  • King Erroneous (unregistered)

    The first thing that entered my mind was the bad text adventures that when you tried to do something perfectly normal that the coder hadn't expected, it would give you a "That won't help you."

  • (cs)

    I thought I've seen something like this before. From Snopes, although a google on haiku error messages will return lots of variants.

    Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

    Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.

    Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

    A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone.

    You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here.

    Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will.

    Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped.

    Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

  • ? (unregistered) in reply to King Erroneous

    I liked the old name "Worse Than Failure" is worse than Doubleyou-tee-eff

  • (cs)

    Short, simple and to the point. At least it said the format COULD be useful instead of a bad insult.

  • (cs) in reply to AnthonyG

    That file you keep loading -- I do not think it contains what you think it contains...

    "robocalypse", LOL. All hail Skynet!

  • fishmorg (unregistered)

    Im sorry, Master; I can't let you do that. Heh heh heh heh

  • Therac-25 (unregistered)

    Perl has had a Coy module (analogous to Carp) since like 1998 or so. It attempts to print out haiku error messages by building a haiku from the error message you provide.

    To quote the documentation from http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Coy-0.05/ :

    Error messages strewn across my terminal. A vein starts to throb.

    Their reproof adds the injury of insult to the shame of failure.

    When a program dies what you need is a moment of serenity.

    The Coy.pm module brings tranquillity to your debugging.

    The module alters the behavior of die and warn (and croak and carp).

    Like Carp.pm, Coy reports errors from the caller's point of view.

    But it prefaces the bad news of failure with a soothing poem.

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered)

    Feel better now?

  • Matt (unregistered)

    I think the reason it looks like a haiku is that it's based off another haiku that's been floating around the Internet.

    A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone.

    Ironically enough...

  • LT (unregistered)

    Isn't that a new style of coding... "Yoda Code"?

    Other error messages include "Use the force you knob", but only in Canada

  • villa (unregistered) in reply to Matt

    I knew Luca Turilli was right! Take that, obscure references!

    Yummy.... captcha.

  • Steven Fisher (unregistered)

    Should have been

    a file like that ...

  • (cs)

    Sono fairu? Omoshirosou ga Koko ja dame.

  • (cs)

    As I read that (Haiku), I could hear YODA's voice speaking those words!!

  • orangutango (unregistered)

    this is so human sarcasm

  • (cs)

    We wrote a bunch of 'Beautiful Errors' a few years back that are similar:

    The Web site you seek cannot be located but endless others exist

    Stay the patient course Of little worth is your ire The network is down

    Login incorrect. Only perfect spellers may enter this system.

    This query fails you Databases are fickle and quite unforgiving

    You have no access Go find some place else to hack write protection joy

    To have no errors Would be life without meaning No struggle, no joy

  • James (unregistered)

    I'm sure you've all seen it, but I had to chip in a favorite or two:

    With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: Your file is not found.

    Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will.

  • (cs)

    How about a new one just for this site?

    Boolean logic Is normally true and false and file not found

  • (cs)

    All it took was one Error message as a poem Now the floodgate's open.

  • Romeo (unregistered)

    All your icons are belong to us!

    Captcha: ninjas - yeah, they all are japanese.

  • Romeo (unregistered)

    BTW, don't ever forget:

    http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/malte.homeip.net/base.swf

  • Reed H (unregistered)

    public class paula bean public string get paula bean return brillant

  • (cs)

    Site Worse Than Failure Was once DailyWTF Never should have changed

  • Harrow (unregistered)

    Discretion is The better part of valor. Courageous "Cancel"!

    -Harrow.

  • bleh (unregistered) in reply to Uncle Dunc

    O dear I'd like a "mod parent funny"-function right now.

  • BenM (unregistered)

    And yet, no one has mentioned BeOS?

  • ScreaminMimi (unregistered)

    hacked email plays tricks leaves virus in my inbox my mac does not care

  • muppet (unregistered)

    In the late 90's, there was a web browser on BeOS that used haiku like the one mentioned in the fine article as its error messages. It was quite entertaining.

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