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"Because 9.975 was just a *little* bit too small," explains our first anonymous helper.

Dan F.'s copy of Half-Life 2 will be done uninstalling in 16 days. Valve had originally planned for the uninstaller to work in 10 minutes, but they hit some...

For as long as The City (as I'll call it) has supplied water to its residents, it has had one big headache called "The Annual Water Survey." Like residents of...

Children's shows are generally the weirdest things you can find on TV. We don't really know why, though our assumption is that the writers and illustrators...

Last week's out of order logging reminded Adam R of a similar bug he encountered once. The log files looked like this:

Maybe I'm shooting at an unfair target here, but Dave sent in this from Crystal Reports. Now if you think BASIC code can get ugly ... well, just take a look at...

"Working in IT, I see lots of error messages," writes Eric, "this one, however, was unique. Apparently the computer didn't nobulate quite right..."

For a ramen-fueled college student, a job offer that actually involves doing the work you're in school to learn and has a paycheck that can't be beat flipping...

... just as Thomas Magle Brodersen found in some production code.

I'll admit it. When I first came across regular expressions, they seemed a bit intimidating. But, after spending about three or four minutes reading about them...

We all make rookie mistakes, especially as rookies. In an act of humility, DJ sent us some PHP she wrote at the tender age of 19. From the submission, I...

Over the past few months, Ellis has been sharing the challenges of the modern job hunt. As I'm one week into my new gig, after a weird and protracted search, I...

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The WET Cart "I help out design firms with 'backend' coding for websites and web applications," writes Josiah, "usually this involves anything that's not...

The next feature confused Tim. After plucking all of the low-hanging fruit, the only requirements left were the ones that were difficult to understand or...

It'd been two hours since Mike had gone to bed. Two slow, miserable hours of counting sheep, staring at the barely visible ceiling, and trying to shake off the...

Originally posted to the Side Bar by Chris, following the response from "Gary" (a manager at his former company) about a question importing Word-HTML into...

The ability to define how operators behave on structures and classes is one of the cooler features available in modern programming languages. It's one of those...

As a parent, I'd prefer the middle choice in this one that Kevin G. sent in. It's large enough to block the elements and sends a powerful message to the kids.

It is said (allegedly by the Scots) that confession heals the soul. But does it need to be strictly voluntary? The folks toiling away over at CodeSOD...

Banks. They take your money and lend it to others. They lend money deposited by other people to you, either as a car loan, mortgage, or for credit card...

In most companies, business growth leads to greater organizational complexity. With more clients to juggle, owners must increasingly delegate less important...

This is the fourth article in a twelve-part series that discusses the twelve finalists and their calculator submissions for the OMGWTF Programming Contest. The...

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One of the clients for Rudolf's company was getting furious with them. The dev team was in constant firefighting mode. No new features ever shipped, because...

There is no task so simple that a developer can't find a harder, more wasteful, and pointless way to do it. For example, let's say you want to know how many...

Underqualified Mike S. is suffering a job hunt. "I could handle uD83D and uDC77 well enough, but I am a little short of uD83C and the all important uDFFE...

"Getting ready to!" anticipated richard h. but then this happened. "All I want are the CLI options to mark the stupid TOS box so I can install this using our...

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One of the more popular ideas from the dot-com days was creating a payment service provider company. It's hard to say why; perhaps their founders believed that...

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Recently, a friend of mine --- a chemistry graduate student at a prestigious university --- was complaining that his advisor was forcing him to use C++ instead...

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Originally posted in the sidebar, "Throgdor the Bold" was having a few JavaScript issues on Houston Chronicle's site and took a peek at the source code. At the...

Today's anonymous submitter has managed to find a way to do date formatting wrong that I don't think I've seen yet. That's always remarkable. Like most such...

The web team and the JDE development team rarely see eye-to-eye in Cho's company. Cho, the JDE developer, worked in a world full of Oracle databases and...

@BernieTheBernie said in WTF is WTDWTF (Getting Started, FAQ, History): @PaulaBean said in WTF is WTDWTF (Getting Started, FAQ, History): The Civilized Salon...

Peter was tracking down some bugs, when he found code which looks like this: if (IsEmptyOrNull(myInput)) { // do things that clearly expect myInput to NOT be...

Today's error'd speaks for itsefl. (submitted by Marty)

Stefan S has recently joined the ranks of software developers, having taken on his first job as a junior developer. After a few months of on-boarding with...

[Note: Today's article is courtesy of Mike Gunderloy, graciously covering for Alex while he is on vacation this week] There was a time when Microsoft Access...

Keep your fingers crossed that that F. B. won't have to pay the 2.25 million billion dollars. Or at least that he can pay in two 1.12 million billion dollar...

What could be simpler than a bit? It's either a One or a Zero. True or False. Yes or No. On or Off. High or Low. Whatever you call it, it can only one thing or...

This is the fifth article in a twelve-part series that discusses the twelve finalists and their calculator submissions for the OMGWTF Programming Contest. The...

I recognize that our comments system here leaves much to be desired, especially with regards to the spam filter. Lots of good comments get moderated, an...

Everyone's got workplace woes. The clueless manager; the disruptive coworker; the cube walls that loom ever higher as the years pass, trapping whatever's left...

As a video game nerd, I'm always upset when new computer games come out that I can't play. As much as I'm looking forward to BioShock and Alan Wake, my...

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This popped up for Steve in Lotus Notes. I wonder if this is what happens when you click buttons labeled "do not click!"

Ah, the joy of comments. Good comments can illuminate complicated code, explain a programmer's reasoning, or even just do their best to absolve a burned out...

It's a general rule that things will look better on paper then they will when built. In the world of design, you don't have to worry about things like...

It's bad news when you inherit a legacy PHP CMS. It's worse news when you see that the vast majority of the files were last changed in 2002 (of course there's...