• (cs)

    frist

  • (cs)

    type comment here

  • (cs)

    oh come on guys

  • Craig (unregistered)

    Are submitters' names anonymized for these? I submitted the VS2010 one quite a while ago, but it's likely that there were just dozens of the exact same submission.

  • (cs)

    Maybe the contact lens people lost their eyesight after having to read the change password screenshot

  • Ocson (unregistered)

    I wouldn't be surprised if Purple Monkey Dishwasher is the result of a "Type words here"

  • a programmer (unregistered)

    what is the probeility that i'm frist?

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Another Purple Monkey Dishwasher? For an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.

  • null (unregistered)

    Please leave in mailbox if nullone home.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    The VS2010 one is no WTF - you actually managed to install the damn thing so now they want to know how the hell you did it so they can write the deployment instructions and send the disc to manufacturing. Beta testing complete!

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Another Purple Monkey Dishwasher? For an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.
    It's a quotation from "The Simpsons".
  • (cs)
    Dan H.:
    Nothin' much.
  • Studley (unregistered)

    We'll show the RF Technitian... especially for that Purple Monkey Dishwasher remark!

    no akismet, it's not spam.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Sorry Daniel but a truncated line on your TV guide is no WTF, even if it makes a vaguely rude word like "ass". Let's try to act like the professionals we all pretend to be, shall we?

  • (cs) in reply to Craig
    Craig:
    Are submitters' names anonymized for these? I submitted the VS2010 one quite a while ago, but it's likely that there were just dozens of the exact same submission.

    Me too :)

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to GCU Arbitrary
    GCU Arbitrary:
    Anonymous:
    Another Purple Monkey Dishwasher? For an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.
    It's a quotation from "The Simpsons".
    I know exactly where it comes from. I'm just saying, for an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.
  • 3M (unregistered)

    better stock up on sticky notes to use for that password

  • (cs)

    Isn't the whole reason of giving you "Counter Strike: Source" that you can modify the "Source" yourself to fix it?

  • (cs)

    The spammed mailbox so reinforces the stereotype of computer programmers:

    Emails from a task scheduler? Check

    Emails from a computer game vendor? Check

    Emails spamming products for the sexually inadequate? Check

    All we need is an automated response from a Pizza delivery company and we've got a royal flush.

  • eViLegion (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Isn't the whole reason of giving you "Counter Strike: Source" that you can modify the "Source" yourself to fix it?

    The Source in "CounterStrike: Source" refers to the alcohol they were drinking rather than the code.

  • Warren Pease (unregistered)

    Wow. According to my rough googlemath, 32,025 characters is an 18-page pamphlet (400 words per page, 5 characters per word....excluding spaces).

    Quite the password. This time around, I'm going to use Chapter 3 of Anna Karenina.

  • J (unregistered)

    Looking at the image on the top right, it looks like Some Ass is already on.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Isn't the whole reason of giving you "Counter Strike: Source" that you can modify the "Source" yourself to fix it?
    This is why "Source" is a crap name for a game engine. And the reason Valve called it "Source" is literally because they kept the source code in a folder called "src". It's a lame origin story.
  • (cs) in reply to J

    Microsoft having a successful install? Wow, that IS a problem. I hope Eric reported that right away.

    I think the real wtf was that Daniel was watching Conan, not that his Direct TV shortened some names.

  • me_again (unregistered)

    Wow spam now constitutes a WTF..

    captcha: amet - Amet to that one brother.

  • Skilldrick (unregistered)

    TRWTF is the width of those dialog boxes...

  • Medinoc (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that someone still thinks "ERROR: The operation completed successfully" is original.

    It has been done to death since functions that fail without calling SetLastError() exist!

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    GCU Arbitrary:
    Anonymous:
    Another Purple Monkey Dishwasher? For an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.
    It's a quotation from "The Simpsons".
    I know exactly where it comes from. I'm just saying, for an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.
    I guessed. I was trying to point out that you probably see it a lot because it's from "The Simpsons".
  • (cs)

    Clearly I am going to select the 89% discount on Viagra. One must be frugal in this economy.

  • Mike Dimmick (unregistered) in reply to Medinoc
    Medinoc:
    The real WTF is that someone still thinks "ERROR: The operation completed successfully" is original.

    It has been done to death since functions that fail without calling SetLastError() exist!

    Or, as I suspect is likely in this case, some functions call SetLastError(0) when they succeed. If a call fails you must call GetLastError as the very next thing you do, or the real error code may be lost.

    Generally functions that return an error number (return type is DWORD or LONG) don't call SetLastError. Those that return BOOL do, in their failure path, but a few call it even when they succeed.

    Basically, it's an error in the error handler.

  • Seba (unregistered)

    Waiting for 99% Pfizer discounts in my spam folder

  • Foobarbaz (unregistered)

    TRWTF is everyone saying a phrase is from the Simpsons when it existed before that episode.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Another Purple Monkey Dishwasher? For an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.
    And why not? It's a perfectly cromulent phrase.
  • smit (unregistered)

    “THAT COMPUTER” began a red faced engineer who was leading the crowd, “IS OUR QA DEPARTMENT’S STOLEN Purple Monkey Dishwasher"

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Looks like somebody forgot to initialize their stack-based struct or didn't check for errors after a read operation:

    35025 = 0x88D1 32321 = 0x7E41

    0x7E4188D1, looks to me like a pointer to something in one of the Windows' DLL, something that would have a high-likeliness of ending up in a thread stack.

  • repeat of other posts (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    GCU Arbitrary:
    Anonymous:
    Another Purple Monkey Dishwasher? For an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.
    It's a quotation from "The Simpsons".
    I know exactly where it comes from. I'm just saying, for an absurdist phrase you sure do see that one a lot.
    People have no imagination. That is why repeating Monty Python is "funny".

    http://xkcd.com/16/

  • (cs) in reply to Foobarbaz
    Foobarbaz:
    TRWTF is everyone saying a phrase is from the Simpsons when it existed before that episode.
    The phrase featured in an episode of The Simpsons; thus, it is perfectly cromulent to assert that it is a Simpsons quotation. I did not claim that it originated with The Simpsons, however it is undeniable that the phrase has been popularised by its inclusion in the show.

    For many people, that will be the only context in which they would have heard it, and is likely the reason it was included in the dialog in the first place.

  • Some American (unregistered)

    Could someone tell me what country spells technician as technitian?

    CAPTCHA: tation - sounds like tim's last name.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Steam.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Dan H.:
    Nothin' much.
    Just sittin' here, drinking a Bud.
  • Cujo (unregistered) in reply to Ocson

    "Purple Monkey Dishwasher" is a rilly kewl name for a band.

  • Blue Collar (unregistered) in reply to Studley

    Skinner says "The programmers will break any time purple monkey dishwasher"

    Studley:
    We'll show the RF Technitian... especially for that Purple Monkey Dishwasher remark!

    no akismet, it's not spam.

  • spoffy (unregistered) in reply to dpm

    So I wake up in the morning and I step outside I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs

    Dan H.:
  • Outtascope (unregistered)

    The rWTF here is how did Michael Hoskins access my inbox?

  • (cs)

    TRWTF in "Some Assembly required" is that the text was not changed to "Some buttembly required" and therefore shortened "Some butt..."

    clbuttic

  • (cs) in reply to repeat of other posts
    by repeat of other posts:
    People have no imagination. That is why repeating Monty Python is "funny".

    http://xkcd.com/16/

    The irony is palpable.

  • (cs)

    Gentlemen, our plan to determine which e-mail address belongs to Michael Hoskins is a success. We knew he would be tempted to post the response of such a WTF.

    Now, where was the date/percentage discount per e-mail address data stored?

  • Alex (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that the picture of a screen does not show the wooden table it was taken on.

  • CiH (unregistered)

    Am I the only one who desires to see the outcome of "Campus Killer" vs "Deadly Women"?

  • Anon-y-mouse (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Evo:
    Isn't the whole reason of giving you "Counter Strike: Source" that you can modify the "Source" yourself to fix it?
    This is why "Source" is a crap name for a game engine. And the reason Valve called it "Source" is literally because they kept the source code in a folder called "src". It's a lame origin story.

    I thought they named it source to flood google with hits for that when people were searching for the (leaked) Half Life 2 source.

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