Jake Vinson

Oct 2007

Having Fun with Words

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M. T. wants to expandify your vocabulation!

119 comments - Last comment @ 2007-12-18

Breaking Broken

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When Mickey's colleague was tasked with changing <br>s into newlines, he wanted to cover all the bases. Since <br />, <Br />, <bR />, etc. are all valid HTML, he clearly had his work cut out for him.

Damn case-sensitive string comparison, he must've thought. This could be so much easier! Oh well, I guess there's only one way to do it... brute force, baby!

156 comments - Last comment @ 2008-01-09

Please Verify These Asterisks

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From Dan B.: "Asking me to confirm my email address and respecting my privacy all at the same time... the nerve!" While this isn't actually a WTF, you have to admit that it's a pretty funny screenshot.

57 comments - Last comment @ 2008-01-05

Security by Letterhead

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Security through obscurity is something we've all probably complained about. We've covered security by insanity and security by oblivity. And today, joining their ranks, we have security by letterhead.

John O'Rourke wrote in to tell us that as a part of his job, he often has to help clients transfer domain names. He's had to jump through all kinds of crazy hoops to transfer domain names in the past; including just about everything except literally jumping through hoops. After faxing in a transfer request and receiving a rejection fax an hour later, he knew he was in for a fight.

153 comments - Last comment @ 2011-07-11

A Medical Emergency

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If you have blue lips, that's pretty messed up. If you have blue lips on some part of your body other than your mouth, that's really messed up, and WebMD would prefer not to get too many details on it.


(submitted by Cav)

71 comments - Last comment @ 2008-06-11

I Don't Understand the Question

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Jordan, would you like to play some Counter Strike??????????????

Fine, reasoned a dejected Richard C., I didn't want to recreate the file anyway.

72 comments - Last comment @ 2021-11-10

Point of Fail

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"Hey, don't take another step!" Chris H. froze in his tracks. The voice cried out "we're dead in the water here!"

Tensions had been running high at The Book Bunker (as I'll call it) for weeks. The Book Bunker's point of sale system had been up and down and up and down more times than anyone could count. Sometimes it was a database connection issue, other times it was an overheating issue, and other times no one knew what it was.

178 comments - Last comment @ 2011-09-28

It's a Different Set of Rules

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Learning to communicate effectively is highly important so that you don't make yourself, and by extension, your company, look stupid. That said, I probably used too many commas in that last sentence. Their our alot of common mistakes that people make to often that could of easily been avoided. In the case of Adam V.'s coworker (who we'll call Angie), though, her mastery of grammar worked against her.

In a frantic email, Angie asked Adam "What's wrong with my program? I can't figure out why it won't complile!" Adam stopped by her desk to have a look and found the line that was causing the build to fail.

157 comments - Last comment @ 2008-08-29

The Circle of Strife

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Marcel is whiling away the days as IT support for a few regional libraries. Typically, this means that he has to answer questions like "is this keyboard unplugged?" and "why does the screen turn off when I press this button on the monitor?"

Back in March, though, one of the libraries had a serious problem. The library has one central server that does all of their transaction logging — who has books checked out, which ones are overdue, which are on order, etc. It was turned off when Marcel arrived, and while he could get it to turn on, he couldn't get it to boot. Fortunately, they had a nightly backup, so Marcel had one of his coworkers run to get the backup tape. Meanwhile, Marcel tried everything he could to repair the system.

91 comments - Last comment @ 2008-07-21

Sorry, You Used That Password 28,452 Times Ago

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This one's from the Microsoft Knowledge Base:


(submitted by Sean)

So assuming 60WPM and 4-5 characters in a word, it'd take you over an hour to type in your password. And hopefully you'd type the correct one in, rather than one of your last thirty thousand passwords.

44 comments - Last comment @ 2007-10-26

Take That, The Bravery!

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You'd think that Nine Inch Nails would be more popular after releasing the critically acclaimed "Year Zero."


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Well, NIN fans revolted and thirty million eight hundred and one thousand five hundred thirty nine votes later, they'd successfully taken their anger out on The Bravery.


(submitted by Nick L.)
82 comments - Last comment @ 2013-01-24

The Final Straws

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As a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed class of 2006 graduate, Andrew M. was excited to start his first job as a professional developer. He was fortunate to find a job so quickly after graduating and he was ready to make a difference.

The first day he showed up to work, he was ready to meet his coworkers, get his email set up, and have a look at the code he'd be maintaining. He was introduced to the IT guy that greeted him with a friendly "oh, you're the new developer," which was the extent of their conversation while they walked to Andrew's new desk.

82 comments - Last comment @ 2007-10-12

Multiple Choice

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I'm pretty sure this was sent in by Seth:

92 comments - Last comment @ 2007-12-12

Gosh Darn Computer

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Jonathan Z. sent in this gosh darn screenshot:

71 comments - Last comment @ 2008-06-18

The Road to Hell

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They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Who they are and why they're so surly is beyond me, but I have to admit they're kind of right.

Take one of Sam's colleagues, for example. He had a well-intentioned tendency to provide helpful documentation via code comments, but... well...

105 comments - Last comment @ 2007-11-27
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