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

    "Ce qui la baise?" is French for WTF, at least according to BabelFish.

  • anonynon (unregistered) in reply to SR
    SR:
    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!

    Spoken like someone who has never coded in ActionScript.

    Does this look more like Java, or JavaScript?

    // ActionScript...
package com.foobar{

  public interface IFoo{
     function get foobar():Sprite;
     function fooFunction():void;
  }

}





package com.foobar{

  public class Foo extends Bar implements IFoo{

    private var _foobar:Sprite;
    public function get foobar():Sprite{
       return _foobar;
    }

    public function Foo(){
       trace("I'm a Foo!");
    }
    public function fooFunction():void{
       trace("I'm foo's function");
    }
  }

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

    Looks like a C stack trace too... If you are in a good mood, you can say it does also look like a C++ stack trace (sans the modifiers).

    On a second tought, it looks nothing like Pascal.

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

    Foobar? Don't you mean Toto?

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Bosshog

    True, false, filenotfound, fish, and Irish Girl. Much better!

  • (cs) 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);

    The real WTF is dealing with currency in a floating point format

  • Jack (unregistered)

    Fellas, don't run that code! You'd never guess--there was a fish in the try block!

  • anon (unregistered) 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.

    You should take that up with the International Organization for Standardization: http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements

  • distracted (unregistered)

    I'm not seeing the WTF in the Hertz screenshot. It's asking your current location, not where you want to pick up the car. There are indeed people who could be reserving a car from Antartica.

    TRWTF is what happens when you actually choose some of those "countries": It shows blank ads, and a scrolling blank list of special offers.

  • (cs) in reply to distracted
    distracted:
    I'm not seeing the WTF in the Hertz screenshot. It's asking your current location, not where you want to pick up the car. There are indeed people who could be reserving a car from Antartica.

    It's asking for your country of residence, not your current location. Antarctica is not a country; even if it were, it has no permanent human residents, so there is no one who could legitimately select that option.

  • (cs) in reply to Pigeon
    Pigeon:
    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.

    Santa just wanted the car for his wife. The last time she took the sleigh to walmart, she forgot their names. Then the they left her out on the woods half way home. Not because she forgot their names, but because she was a woman and driving. I'll bet you are gonna feel really bad when her the Mrs. Claus froze to death because Hertz didn't want to loan her a car.

  • davee123 (unregistered)

    Back in 2000 or so, I was required to have a country list in my web application, but was never given a list of countries with which to populate it. Repeated requests for a list always resulted in "Oh, right-- I'll send you that." But to no avail. So, giving up, I eventually used the list from the Animaniacs' song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc

    Amazingly, that list made it out to production, and was never corrected throughout the life of the webpage (several years).

    DaveE

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Sal
    Sal:
    "You're unsubscribed from A|Club mailings.... and your little dog, too! *cackle*"
    “But I wasn't subscribed to my little dog!”
  • moz (unregistered) 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?
    He'd select Russian Federation, of course. Sadly, the nearest Hertz location in the country is in St. Petersburg.

    He'd be in more luck if he moved back to Lapland, as Hertz have a presence in Kiruna.

  • silverpie (unregistered) in reply to Nome de Plume

    The version I've usually heard is "Que diable?" which isn't quite literal (it would literally translate as "what the devil?")

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

    I'll take the titis and tatas. You can keep the totos and tutus.

  • (cs)

    What you say about Flash is true, but it does scale well.

    Thank you! Tip your waitpersons!

  • (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.

    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!)

    Antartica is a bastardized form of a continent, don't you "c" . . .

  • Max (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    distracted:
    I'm not seeing the WTF in the Hertz screenshot. It's asking your current location, not where you want to pick up the car. There are indeed people who could be reserving a car from Antartica.

    It's asking for your country of residence, not your current location. Antarctica is not a country; even if it were, it has no permanent human residents, so there is no one who could legitimately select that option.

    Oh so now we're discriminating against non-humans, are we? That's awfully insensitive towards the penguins and seals that need a rental!

  • Dave (unregistered)

    "So where exactly is the FIFA World Cup being held this year?"

    Hey, the Chaser has made it to US TV!

    (You are not expected to understand this, unless you're from Australia :-).

  • Dave (unregistered)

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

    As Toto sashayed towards me in her tutu I couldn't help noticing her titis. Once she'd gone past, the view of her tata wasn't bad either.

    Typical French, only thinking of one thing :-).

  • tclas (unregistered)

    Anyone else notice the low says "49" but the current temp is "48"?

  • Rodnas (unregistered) in reply to ∃ Style.
    ∃ Style.:
    So long, and thanks for all the false!

    LOL

    it is a typical case of babelfalse!

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    distracted:
    I'm not seeing the WTF in the Hertz screenshot. It's asking your current location, not where you want to pick up the car. There are indeed people who could be reserving a car from Antartica.

    It's asking for your country of residence, not your current location. Antarctica is not a country; even if it were, it has no permanent human residents, so there is no one who could legitimately select that option.

    You don't have to be a PERMANENT resident to reside someplace. People stay for months at a time. If they have no other living quarters elsewhere I would call them residents. Note that it is not asking for citizenship.

  • pa (unregistered) in reply to Caffeine
    Caffeine:
    True, false, filenotfound and fish

    we have found the missing qbit states

  • BushIdo (unregistered) in reply to Dave

    Sure, sure. The french. O lala and al that.

    Butt

    I mean, we all know, that it's all (=toto) about titis.

    "What make a man? Is it the woman in his arms? Just cause she has big titties? Or is it the way he fights every day? ....No, it's probably the titties"

    Now You're A Man - DVDA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiXaT_1I-vw

  • (cs)

    I showed my bf, non-tech, the fishy flash error and he said: "hehe, it says add child"

    :D

  • Kai (unregistered)

    The real WTF happened to me when I showed this image to my wife. She assured me that this kind of special offers are intentional and she would absolutely place such a label in the shelf if it would happen to her. Everything that comes from above must be true and intentional. Don't question the management or marketing.

  • Watson (unregistered)

    I wonder where that fish has gone.

    I did love that fish so. I looked after it like a son.

  • joe (unregistered)

    nice ones

  • dylansmrjones (unregistered) in reply to moz

    Santa lives on Greenland, so obviously he should choose Denmark (you know, the capital of Stockholm).

  • GA (unregistered) in reply to PITA
    PITA:
    Fish - it's always in the last place you look.

    Go Fish!

  • Angie (unregistered) in reply to ih8u
    ih8u:
    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, fish 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.

    FTFY!

  • Johnno (unregistered) in reply to davee123
    davee123:
    Back in 2000 or so, I was required to have a country list in my web application, but was never given a list of countries with which to populate it. Repeated requests for a list always resulted in "Oh, right-- I'll send you that." But to no avail. So, giving up, I eventually used the list from the Animaniacs' song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc

    Amazingly, that list made it out to production, and was never corrected throughout the life of the webpage (several years).

    DaveE

    Don't suppose it's still around?

    I notice Yugoslavia is not split in that song, and the Baltic Nations (and some others in that area) don't appear to get a mention (presumably they were considered part of Russia at the time). But, we don't care do's we?

  • Jung (unregistered) in reply to Jack
    Jack:
    Fellas, don't run that code! You'd never guess--there was a fish in the try block!

    That fish you like is coming back in style.

  • hoodaticus (unregistered) in reply to Loren Pechtel
    Loren Pechtel:
    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??

    I'm sure the International Space Station and all deepwater oil rigs are listed as well.

  • Kempeth (unregistered) in reply to Murrican
    Murrican:
    It must be South Africa... America is that big country that occupies 93% if the globe, just north of Mexico.

    It's called "South America" because it is hugging the southern border of the real "America". "North America" would be Canada then. But there simply is no further landmass directly south of Africa, so "South Africa" doesn't exist.

    So if the world cup is held in a place with "South" in its name then it must be in "South America".

    ;-)

  • Spamspamspamspam (unregistered) in reply to Watson
    Watson:
    I wonder where that fish has gone.

    I did love that fish so. I looked after it like a son.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uvt83YWWWY

  • DonaldK (unregistered) in reply to Kempeth
    Kempeth:
    It's called "South America" because it is hugging the southern border of the real "America". "North America" would be Canada then. But there simply is no further landmass directly south of Africa, so "South Africa" doesn't exist.

    And in a puff of white smoke, Donald suddenly disappeared. He lived in one of those contradictory places that simply couldn't exist.

  • anon (unregistered)

    Guys, the Antarctica wtf is because Antarctica doesn't have roads for normal cars to drive on

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Guys, the Antarctica wtf is because Antarctica doesn't have roads for normal cars to drive on
    Actually that's not true.
  • Photoplex (unregistered) in reply to anon

    That's totally besides the point. The question being asked is for your country of residence, not the country you wish to hire a vehicle in.

    It is technically possible to claim residence in Antarctica, but as far as I know it has never been done. The continent does not have any permanent residents, and in order to claim residency (say in the British Antarctic Territory) you would need to maintain a continuous period of residency there, and not in the UK.

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to Murrican
    Murrican:
    It must be South Africa... America is that big country that occupies 93% if the globe, just north of Mexico.
    Er?!? World Cup?? Is that like the World Series?

    CAPTCHA: aptent - Where your system components stay when on holiday!

  • Me (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Er?!? World Cup?? Is that like the World Series?
    No, nothing like it at all. The World Cup involves more than one country playing a game that is played all over the World called Football. You Americans may have heard of it as Soccer.
  • ARMed but harmless (unregistered)

    Antarctica is WFT because the guys there don't need cars. They have reichsflugscheiben!

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to ∃ Style.

    haha...too funny

  • Stiggy (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Loren Pechtel:
    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??

    I'm sure the International Space Station and all deepwater oil rigs are listed as well.

    I'd expect all landmasses to be available in a list like this. True, Antarctica is a continent. But it's also the only continent that is not otherwise divided into countries.

    Is it reasonable for anyone to consider that they reside there? Subjectively, it's very possible. According to the wiki, at least 1000 people are there at any one time. That's far more than any space station or oil rig could possibly accomodate. I'm prepared to believe that at least a few of them have no other permanent residence, regardless of their citizenship.

    Antarctica is routinely included in country lists, and rightly so.

    If the argument is that the usage is unlikely, well... I guess I don't want to see your edge-case test coverage...

  • (cs) in reply to hmmmmm
    hmmmmm:
    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.

    I'd assumed he'd meant "bundle" in terms of supermarket discounts--like the stupid "ten for $10!" signs you always see. If you save $1 on 100, it sounds better than $0.01 on $1.

  • JoLoCo (unregistered) in reply to Stiggy
    Stiggy:
    True, Antarctica is a continent. But it's also the only continent that is not otherwise divided into countries.

    I knew Australia was a myth!

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