The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

Evan:
¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
dkf:
eViLegion:
Also, the word antejentacular isn't in common use anywhere. It's still British English.
Of course. It's perfectly cromulent.
If it was British, wouldn't it be perfectly Cromwellent?
"The most interesting thing about Oliver Cromwell was he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign, but only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it."

Interesting and apparently incorrect as well. They didn't behead his body until a couple years AFTER his death (and thus end of reign) according to the sources I found.

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

My favourite archaic English word is cwm. Thank you House of Leaves.

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

herby:
This might beg the question, but WHY didn't Peter solve the problem BEFORE the highly paid consultants arrived back at the scene of the crime?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

The second paragraph claims that "some authorities" consider your misuse of the phrase as proper, but those people suck.

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

Wow, the various uses of the vernacular in these comments is bound to embiggen us all.

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

Anomaly:
My favourite archaic English word is cwm. Thank you House of Leaves.

Shhhh! That's my trump card for hangman, don't tell everyone about it!

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

So if he was able to figure this out in about 30 seconds, WTF did they need to bring in consultants. He should of just done his job adn ran the script.

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

Peter:
For English readers - 'acclimated' = 'Acclimatise' ...

I find the whole subject of suffixation to be amusing. We have standardized suffixes, many of which are interchangeable. Why are some suffixations considered to be "a real word" and others not so?

"Derivation" can be used as a past tense verb, as in "His derivation of the word took several weeks of research", but you can't say "derivement" which adds "-ment" to "derive" to mean the same thing. The latter is rejected. (sigh)

Also, you forgot the "ed" suffix which puts the verb "acclimatise" into the past tense: "acclimatised".

Matt Westwood · 2013-07-10 Reply Admin

Anomaly:
My favourite archaic English word is cwm. Thank you House of Leaves.

It's not archaic, it's Welsh.

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

Harrow:
Definitely the wrong thing to say....Peter is evidently doomed to a life of abject honesty.
-Harrow.

It took way too long for someone to point this out.

2013-07-10 Reply Admin

Matt Westwood:
Anomaly:
My favourite archaic English word is cwm. Thank you House of Leaves.

It's not archaic, it's Welsh.

Isn't that the same thing?

Eternal Density · 2013-07-10 Reply Admin

enxorizo:
pjt33:
Is there any chance of posting the unedited story to see whether the way it sets up the scenario makes any sense? The first 9 paragraphs of this article seem to be deliberately written to make it hard to figure out what's going on.

yep, the style provides a deliberately garbled up intertwined structure with the apparent goal of provoking increased interest in the unfolding of subsequent consequences.

short, it's a mess. i feel conned and insulted.

Maybe it's a deleted scene from Primer.

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

Well said, I agree completely.

Worst. WTF. Ever.

Gunslnger · 2013-07-11 Reply Admin

So, TRWTF is that a feature was actually documented accurately and usefully. Fancy that.

eViLegion · 2013-07-11 Reply Admin

a key in f# minor:
Matt Westwood:
Anomaly:
My favourite archaic English word is cwm. Thank you House of Leaves.

It's not archaic, it's Welsh.
Isn't that the same thing?

No... no it isn't... you blithering ignoramus.

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

Evan:
"The most interesting thing about Oliver Cromwell was he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign, but only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it."

No, that's the most interesting thing about King Charles the First. And it was because of ... (please sing-along while playing Chopin's Heroic Polonaise): "Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England ..."

eViLegion · 2013-07-11 Reply Admin

"Heroic" is pretty difficult dude. If you can play it well AND sing at the same time, I doff my hat to you.

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

eViLegion:
"Heroic" is pretty difficult dude. If you can play it well AND sing at the same time, I doff my hat to you.

I would also accept to just play a recording (I assume Monty Python did so, too). Or have someone else play while you sing (or vice versa).

eViLegion · 2013-07-11 Reply Admin

RandomGuy:
eViLegion:
"Heroic" is pretty difficult dude. If you can play it well AND sing at the same time, I doff my hat to you.
I would also accept to just play a recording (I assume Monty Python did so, too). Or have someone else play while you sing (or vice versa).

But it's less heroic that way!

xaade · 2013-07-11 Reply Admin

pjt33:
eViLegion:
Spudley:
Hmm, no. As a British English speaker, I can tell you that 'acclimated' is an Americanism. It isn't in common use over here.
Hmm, no. As a British English speaker, I can tell you that it might well be an Americanism, but that is totally irrelevant. It IS in use in Britain, by British English speakers.
The British National Corpus contains 103 instances of the verb acclimatise/acclimatize and 0 (zero) instances of acclimate.
COCA, on the other hand, has 70 acclimatize to 358 acclimate.

But the word acclimatize is redundant.

The fact that you're adjusting to a climate is already implied by the ac- part of the word.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ac-

ac- Prefix: To, toward. -ize Suffix: become, become like

It's redundant.

cli•ma•tize (ˈklaɪ məˌtaɪz) v.t. -tized, -tiz•ing.

to acclimate to a new environment.
to prepare or modify (a building, etc.) for use or comfort in a specific climate.

climatize == acclimate.

There's literally NO need for the word "acclimitize".

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

Anomaly:
My favourite archaic English word is cwm. Thank you House of Leaves.

So archaic, it is actually Welsh, or technically, Common Brittonic.

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

Bob:
eViLegion:
Name calling... is generally used by people who want to weigh in on a topic when they know very little about it.
All the Ad Hominem in the world won't make the Sh!tPoint wiki feature complete. It lacks templates/transclusion, managed links to uploads, redirects, categorisation, the list goes on.

And by adding this description you've stepped out of pure name calling and demonstrated that you actually have a reason for it.

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

eViLegion:
"Heroic" is pretty difficult dude. If you can play it well AND sing at the same time, I doff my hat to you.

Please, let's keep the comments SFW. Doffing should be done on off time.

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

pjt33:
Is there any chance of posting the unedited story to see whether the way it sets up the scenario makes any sense? The first 9 paragraphs of this article seem to be deliberately written to make it hard to figure out what's going on.

ok, glad I wasn't the only one. I had to re-read the first couple paragraphs 3 times before I could figure out wtf was going on

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

Man, Peter missed an opportunity here: "Hey boss, these consultants can't fix your problem. I can, and want, in return, for you to negotiate a 10% cut in fees to ConsultPro (on account of them being idiots), giving me a raise in the amount of 1/4 of the savings. Do that, and I'll have things running for within 15 minutes."

chubertdev · 2013-07-11 Reply Admin

eViLegion:
a key in f# minor:
Matt Westwood:
Anomaly:
My favourite archaic English word is cwm. Thank you House of Leaves.

It's not archaic, it's Welsh.
Isn't that the same thing?

No... no it isn't... you blithering ignoramus.

You went Matt Westwood on a user quoting Matt Westwood.

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2013-07-11 Reply Admin

RandomGuy:
Evan:
"The most interesting thing about Oliver Cromwell was he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign, but only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it."
No, that's the most interesting thing about King Charles the First. And it was because of ... (please sing-along while playing Chopin's Heroic Polonaise): "Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England ..."

Oh balls, you're right. Well I feel silly. "Doowwwwwwwnnn came the axe..."

eViLegion · 2013-07-11 Reply Admin

chubertdev:

You went Matt Westwood on a user quoting Matt Westwood.

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Yeah I did a little bit. Sometimes you know there'll be a whooshing sound, but you've gotta bite anyway. Besides, I hadn't used ignoramus, nor blithering for that matter, for some time and I felt the thread title warranted it.

Matt Westwood · 2013-07-11 Reply Admin

eViLegion:
chubertdev:

You went Matt Westwood on a user quoting Matt Westwood.

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Yeah I did a little bit. Sometimes you know there'll be a whooshing sound, but you've gotta bite anyway. Besides, I hadn't used ignoramus, nor blithering for that matter, for some time and I felt the thread title warranted it.

Finally I'm a meme. Bless you guys.

2013-07-11 Reply Admin

T.R.:
"empty bottles of Evian" ? perhaps a left-over of the original story, indicating it happened in France... or perhaps Evian is commonly found in whatever country it happened in.

It's one of the more expensive brands of bottled water (an already extremely overpriced product) commonly found in the US. Not sure if it's that expensive elsewhere, but I took that as another jab at how highly-paid these consultants are.

2013-07-12 Reply Admin

If the answer was in the documentation provided to them and they didn't read the documentation, I would bill them for the entire day.

2013-07-13 Reply Admin

xaade:
There's literally NO need for the word "acclimitize".

... and by a strange coincidence, there's no such word.

2013-07-14 Reply Admin

Joe:
Documentation either is readable, is helpful, or exists. Pick 2

Documentation that doesn't exist is neither readable or helpful.

2013-07-15 Reply Admin

Good documentation can exist: it's usually written by interns and (possibly expert) late comers who don't know enough about the project to neglect certain areas, and didn't have time to learn to hate the system, and therefore they conservatively try to make a good job.

2013-07-16 Reply Admin

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2013-07-16 Reply Admin

Benjamin Smith:
Peter:
For English readers - 'acclimated' = 'Acclimatise' ...
I find the whole subject of suffixation to be amusing.

Suffixation? Is that a fixation with suffixes?

2013-07-18 Reply Admin

Nagesh:
Harrow:
Peter peered over Bob’s shoulder, at the error message on his laptop. “It could be that the security log’s full. Have you checked the application’s internal registry?”
Definitely the wrong thing to say. The proper observation to make would have been, “Hire me as an ad-hoc consultant and I'll fix this in five minutes. It'll cost you two grand but it'll be worth it: you guys can take the credit and look like geniuses.”

Peter is evidently doomed to a life of abject honesty.

-Harrow.

How is this going to work in real life? Peter could get arrested for holding information critical to company.

I don't see how it would be illegal for Peter to withhold information from his employer. Might get him a one way ticket to the exit, but I doubt the police would be interested.

Am I the only one who felt like I somehow missed the first half of the story?

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