• ∃ Style. (unregistered)

    So long, and thanks for all the false!

  • ell0bo (unregistered)

    Just because BP is poisoning the gulf is no reason for fish to invade our code...

  • Caffeine (unregistered)

    True, false, filenotfound and fish The list is complete. Truly though I am not finding excessive amusement in the obligatory 'mass produced price tag funny due to typo' and 'how hilarious this message box was written by someone whose first language wasn't english' entries.

  • bricon (unregistered)

    Error: Expecting "comment" but found "thrid"

  • Grumpy (unregistered)

    Expected comment but found fish

  • anon (unregistered)

    Man, coastal erosion in Africa is even worse than I thought.

  • SR (unregistered)

    titi

  • DT (unregistered)

    Really thought the first comment to this would be "fish"

  • Mr. Mr. (unregistered) in reply to Caffeine
    Caffeine:
    True, False, and FishNotFound
    FTFY

    You have to keep it simple. When will people learn?

  • (cs)
    Michael Wood:
    So where exactly is the FIFA World Cup being held this year? South Afmerica??

    Or The Iraq, such as.

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to Markp

    or the Asian countries.

  • Steve Urkel (unregistered)

    The Real WTF is that they left out the North Pole. What if Santa wants to hire a car?

  • SR (unregistered) in reply to Mr. Mr.
    Mr. Mr.:
    Caffeine:
    True, False, and FishNotFound
    FTFY

    You have to keep it simple. When will people learn?

    This is the sort of thinking that supplied "fish" instead of "false" in the first place.

    You have to give the correct input. When will people learn?

  • tragomaskhalos (unregistered)

    Dear supermarket chains the world over; Please insert the following code into your "amazing discount" label printing software:

    if (price_delta.discount <= 0)
  // shhh - the same or more expensive - keep quiet about this
  ;
else if (price_delta.discount < 0.1)
  // trumpeting this just makes us look cheap and stupid.
  // note: separate conditional branch for future-proofing!
  ;
else
  print_humungous_discount_banner_for(price_delta);
  • Guillaume (unregistered)

    toto, titi, tata and tutu are french metasyntactic variables like foo, bar and baz.

  • Knux2 (unregistered)

    Looking for an interesting article but found fish.

  • AC (unregistered)
    "I've always known that Flash is bloated and stinks," wrote Chas., "now I know why."
    You know, ordinarily I'd agree, but that stack trace is showing the fish coming from a JSON element of some kind. So it's probably some external resource, not an Adobe fsckup.
  • Florent (unregistered)

    Using "toto" as a dummy variable is very common in French computer science classes (it then shows in the industry I guess).

    We have the "Tête à Toto" and a slew of stupid "Toto" jokes, where Toto is a child, usually in school.

    Jokes such as... "Toto, what are you doing?" "Nothing!" "What about your brother?" "He's helping me!"

    Or... "Miss, miss! Can I be punished for something I didn't do?" "Why no Toto, of course!" "That's good, because I didn't do my homework!"

    My 2 cts of international (and useless) culture. :)

  • Sal (unregistered)

    "You're unsubscribed from A|Club mailings.... and your little dog, too! cackle"

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to AC
    AC:
    "I've always known that Flash is bloated and stinks," wrote Chas., "now I know why."
    You know, ordinarily I'd agree, but that stack trace is showing the fish coming from a JSON element of some kind. So it's probably some external resource, not an Adobe fsckup.

    Clearly TRWTF is that they didn't wrap their JSON in XML. Then they could have fixed it by embedding an XSLT translator from sushi to boolean.

  • Bobrot (unregistered) in reply to AC

    Agreed. It's not the flash player that's bloated. In fact, they've done wonders in a lot smaller runtimes than other companies I won't mention. It's the fact that we need to stop putting designer generated code out there in the wild.

  • monkeyPushButton (unregistered) in reply to Florent
    Florent:
    Using "toto" as a dummy variable is very common in French computer science classes (it then shows in the industry I guess).
    "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dummy variable, too!"
  • Scott (unregistered)

    Am I the only one who thinks that the Flash error looks like a Java stack trace?

  • Chelloveck (unregistered)

    The only problem with the Sitepoint pic is that it was being viewed in Firefox. I'm sure it looks great in IE, especially IE6. In fact, it's a stellar example of "graceful degradation" of a site when viewed with an unsupported browser. The previous edition of the book would have recommended throwing up a big "UNSUPPORTED BROWSER" error.

    So you see, the site was coded the right way, it's the user who was wrong. Stupid users, using stupid "free" software. They should know by now to only run commercial code written by professionals. You just can't trust the amateur stuff.

  • J (unregistered)

    If your device is using, you need to send it to rehab.

  • (cs) in reply to Guillaume
    Guillaume:
    toto, titi, tata and tutu are french metasyntactic variables like foo, bar and baz.

    I thought they were Dorothy's other dogs.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve Urkel
    Steve Urkel:
    The Real WTF is that they left out the North Pole. What if Santa wants to hire a car?

    Well thats the most moronic comment I've ever read.

    Santa has flying freaking raindeer...screw hertz, dasher takes him to Walmart.

  • PITA (unregistered)

    Fish - it's always in the last place you look.

  • BSDPwns (unregistered) in reply to tragomaskhalos
    tragomaskhalos:
    Dear supermarket chains the world over; Please insert the following code into your "amazing discount" label printing software: 
    if (price_delta.discount <= 0)
  // shhh - the same or more expensive - keep quiet about this
  ;
else if (price_delta.discount < 0.1)
  // trumpeting this just makes us look cheap and stupid.
  // note: separate conditional branch for future-proofing!
  ;
else
  print_humungous_discount_banner_for(price_delta);

    if (price_delta.discount <= 0.1) // Why not just bundle it up?

    // trumpeting this just makes us look cheap and stupid.

    // note: separate conditional branch for future-proofing!

    ;

    else

    print_humungous_discount_banner_for(price_delta);

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Guillaume
    Guillaume:
    toto, titi, tata and tutu are french metasyntactic variables like foo, bar and baz.

    That's only because of the crazy French keyboard layout, right?

  • ih8u (unregistered) in reply to tragomaskhalos
    tragomaskhalos:
    Dear supermarket chains the world over; Please insert the following code into your "amazing discount" label printing software: 
    if (price_delta.discount <= 0)
  // shhh - the same or more expensive - keep quiet about this
  ;
else if (price_delta.discount < 0.1)
  // trumpeting this just makes us look cheap and stupid.
  // note: separate conditional branch for future-proofing!
  ;
else
  print_humungous_discount_banner_for(price_delta);

    Dear dopes who pretend to be developers writing label software for supermarket chains,

    Ensure that this code is in a language that your compiler or interpreter recognizes.

    When copying the code and pasting it into your existing code, make sure you only copy the code part of the above message and not the additional expository text.

    If (when) the pasted code does not compile (or the interpreter throws an error), change the names of the functions and the names of the variables to match the ones in your existing code.

    Better yet, make the pasted code into a function that you call that takes a price discount and returns a boolean (true means print the discount, false means don't).

    If that last sentence has you horribly confused, please disregard. Functions are made-up things that don't really exist in coding, so I must have been joking.

  • hmmmmm (unregistered) in reply to BSDPwns
    BSDPwns:
    tragomaskhalos:
    Dear supermarket chains the world over; Please insert the following code into your "amazing discount" label printing software: 
    if (price_delta.discount <= 0)
  // shhh - the same or more expensive - keep quiet about this
  ;
else if (price_delta.discount < 0.1)
  // trumpeting this just makes us look cheap and stupid.
  // note: separate conditional branch for future-proofing!
  ;
else
  print_humungous_discount_banner_for(price_delta);

    if (price_delta.discount <= 0.1) // Why not just bundle it up?

    // trumpeting this just makes us look cheap and stupid.

    // note: separate conditional branch for future-proofing!

    ;

    else

    print_humungous_discount_banner_for(price_delta);

    I love how you include the comment that explains exactly why it wasn't bundled up.

  • jdw (unregistered)

    Clearly, that Flash app was running on a quantum computer. Someone forgot to observe the computer for a few moments, and "false" became "fish."

  • amet (unregistered) in reply to Guillaume
    Guillaume:
    toto, titi, tata and tutu are french metasyntactic variables like foo, bar and baz.
    So are you saying TRWTF is french?
  • grizz (unregistered) in reply to Guillaume
    Guillaume:
    toto, titi, tata and tutu are french metasyntactic variables like foo, bar and baz.

    Heh! Heh heh heh! He said "tata"!

  • 32gen (unregistered)

    I don't know quite what a "leather bath" is but I'm sure even a moment of the Imperial version is more than enough for me

  • Mark M (unregistered)

    Antartica is a continent, not a country. Just one more reason why it shouldn't be in that list.

    Nevertheless, for the cost of a daily rental I might just go ahead and reserve a car for pickup in Antartica. (I'd presume that the car is equipped with a heavy-duty heater & defroster!)

  • (cs) in reply to 32gen
    32gen:
    I don't know quite what a "leather bath" is but I'm sure even a moment of the Imperial version is more than enough for me

    I was under the impression that the "bath moment" was being provided thanks to "imperial leather". I did not perform self-probing for mental images.

  • (cs) in reply to Mark M
    Mark M:
    Antartica is a *continent*, not a country. Just one more reason why it shouldn't be in that list.

    But if that were true, then Africa should be in the list too.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    It's asking where you live, not where you are renting a car. Thus it doesn't matter that they don't have any rental places in Antarctica.

    I do agree it's a continent rather than a country but since there is no country down there what else are they going to do? If someone actually lives in Antarctica what else would they put down??

  • Erik (unregistered)

    "The device is probably using" obviously means the application suspects the device is on drugs. Since drug abuse can greatly increase device instability, the application recommends you do not use the device until it sobers up.

  • (cs) in reply to J
    J:
    If your device is using, you need to send it to rehab.
    I tried to, but it said something - can't quite remember what it was... did anyone else happen to catch it?
  • Bosshog (unregistered) in reply to Caffeine
    Caffeine:
    True, false, filenotfound and fish The list is complete.

    Noooo! 4 values can actually describe a 2-bit mapping, almost sensibly. We must add a fifth!

  • Erik (unregistered)

    Here in quebec toto is a pet name for "silly you" while titi is another mild swear......

  • Pete the Penguin (unregistered) in reply to Mark M

    Maybe they rent Sno-Cats.

  • anonynon (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    Scott:
    Am I the only one who thinks that the Flash error looks like a Java stack trace?

    ActionScript is incredibly Java-like.

  • (cs) in reply to Mark M
    Mark M:
    Nevertheless, for the cost of a daily rental I might just go ahead and reserve a car for pickup in Antartica. (I'd presume that the car is equipped with a heavy-duty heater & defroster!)
    I want a cabriolet with A/C. Pickup in McMurdo, please.
  • SR (unregistered) in reply to anonynon
    anonynon:
    Scott:
    Am I the only one who thinks that the Flash error looks like a Java stack trace?

    ActionScript is incredibly Java-like.

    No no no no no no no NO NO NO!

    Java != JavaScript!

  • mc (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    AC:
    "I've always known that Flash is bloated and stinks," wrote Chas., "now I know why."
    You know, ordinarily I'd agree, but that stack trace is showing the fish coming from a JSON element of some kind. So it's probably some external resource, not an Adobe fsckup.

    Clearly TRWTF is that they didn't wrap their JSON in XML. Then they could have fixed it by embedding an XSLT translator from sushi to boolean.

    Well, if they are passing fish about, they should really wrap them in newspaper.

  • Murrican (unregistered)

    It must be South Africa... America is that big country that occupies 93% if the globe, just north of Mexico.

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