• hakko (unregistered)

    frist.lessold

  • Little Bobby Tables (unregistered)

    Don't be silly "lessold" is just less old than old, but it's not new. It's less old than old, but less new than lessnew, which in turn is less new than new.

  • someone (unregistered)

    Of course the the legal basis of such agreements is already shaky, but I suppose such a term would help to invalidate anything the rest of it says?

  • Yida Mala (unregistered)

    I'm not quite sure how valid what Bobby said always is.... I agree that lessold sounds older than lessnew but if there is lessnew then "" (current/active) is probably between them. See, if you don't have "new" then current is probably "newest" but "new" (when present) is probably newer than current (just not yet in use). When new becomes current, current will become even-less-old.

  • Cyberpower legal team (unregistered)

    Your site is in violation of our terms of service and we will sue you for a crapzillion US$.

  • (nodebb)

    Of course, TRWTF is Windows on a scale.

  • Zach (unregistered)

    How is LESSOLD a WTF?

  • Brian (unregistered) in reply to nabru

    Well, the scale has a display and needs some way to communicate with the point-of-sale, which implies some sort of software, which implies some sort of OS to run the software. An embedded version of Windows is just as valid as any other choice, especially when your POS software and developers are also Windows-based.

  • jakjawagon (unregistered)

    'Les sold', French for 'the solders'.

  • Paul Neumann (unregistered) in reply to nabru

    Of course, TRWTF is Windows on a scale.

    Save it for the toaster!

  • (nodebb)

    Silly commenters, pretending like you've never heard of a .less file.

    In Steven B.'s submission, though, I am amused that somebody decided to name a button "Large play/pause toggle".

  • Not a thing that happens (unregistered)

    "Don't be silly "lessold" is just less old than old, but it's not new. It's less old than old, but less new than lessnew, which in turn is less new than new."

    Ooh, just drop it Bobby.

  • ooOOooGa (unregistered) in reply to Zach

    "How is LESSOLD a WTF?"

    If, as a programmer, appending '_OLD', '_test', and '_test2' to your file names seems like a good and valid way of retaining existing copies of your work when making changes, then you need to find a new career.

    The '.lessold' file type is just a really funny form of this monstrosity of fake version control.

  • Kleyguerth (github)

    There's no WTF in the last image. User created a file with ".lessold" extension. Windows couldn't find a description for that extension on its registry and just used the extension itself, "LESSOLD".

  • (nodebb)

    The tag just means that the salesman named "Les" was the one who sold it.

  • David (unregistered)

    Windows is an ideal OS for POS software, as it is itself a POS.

  • RichP (unregistered) in reply to ooOOooGa

    "If, as a programmer, appending '_OLD', '_test', and '_test2' to your file names seems like a good and valid way of retaining existing copies of your work when making changes, then you need to find a new career.

    The '.lessold' file type is just a really funny form of this monstrosity of fake version control." The only thing worse was a habit I once observed: appending '.new", '.newnew', '.beta', '.delta', '.gamma', (oh crap, I wasn't in a fraternity, what comes next...), '.newtuesday', 'newfriday' (wait, is Friday or Tuesday the older file?). To be fair to the engineer that used that system, the source control software we used was Visual Source Safe.

  • (nodebb) in reply to nabru

    Well MS does claim that their server version scales very well.

  • Perri Nelson (unregistered) in reply to David

    Would POS mean "Perfect Operating System"?

    No, I didn't think so either.

  • (nodebb)

    Funniest part of this 'new/old/lessold'-crap...

    Windows just shows you the date of the file. So the order of file-versions is deterministic, even when someone screws up the appended text. It could even be a random string.

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    one of the stories reminded me of something weird i saw a long time ago: a store had several TV sets hanging from the ceiling near the registers. they always played commercials and advertisements, the same 8 or 10 over and over...anyway, once time they glitched so the video was playing at 2 or 3 times normal speed, but the audio was normal!

  • Xan (unregistered)

    Just how low does that cut go??? What a skank.

  • (nodebb)

    Re Amazon promo code glitch: There's nothing like a fall-through puke in the morning.

  • Klimax (unregistered) in reply to David

    You act as if Linux/Android was any less WTF choice...

  • guest (unregistered)

    The Real WTF with the LESSOLD is that someone has not disabled "Hide file extensions of known types".

  • löchlein deluxe (unregistered) in reply to ooOOooGa

    Inevitably, there comes a "handover" (i.e. it's simply my problem now) and a cleanup (i.e. delete all the world-readable *~ files with database passwords in, and stuff like that). And the phone call a week later why it doesn't work anymore. And the digging of logfiles, and the regret that I can't kill my now-line-manager who pointed production at the test8/ folder.

  • Konrad Borowski (unregistered)

    Interestingly, they are against bots, but their robots.txt file is like, go ahead, scrape the site.

  • (nodebb)

    What's the WTF supposed to be with the wellness risk one? Does the submitter think that the site's arbitrary risk scale is somehow required to only include non-negative numbers?

  • Smashundgrabbe (unregistered)

    To be pedantic on the "manual process", manus=hands. So its's a case of "look with your eyes (oculi), not your hands"?

  • (nodebb)

    Looks like a fine developmestuction environment here.

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