Randal Munroe of xkcd.com must be familiar with TheDailyWTF.com
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I think Randal Munroe, author of webcomic xkcd.com, must be familiar with this site. Or maybe he's just seen enough WTF code in his lifetime.
http://xkcd.com/c221.html
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The inner WTF is that "dice" should be "die"
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@pinkduck said:
The inner WTF is that "dice" should be "die"
Moron!!! Obviously the result of "4" was achieved by rolling a 20-sided die and a 12-sided die. Hence "dice".
The real WTF is that the author included any comments whatsoever. "return 4" is a classic example of self-documenting code.
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@pinkduck said:
The inner WTF is that "dice" should be "die"
Umm....not necessarily. You can roll 2 dice and still get 4........
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Yes, but grammatically, it would still be "die roll", even if more than one die is involved. It's still "human error", not "humans error", no matter how many programmers were involved in a WTF.
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On a zen note, humans error is human error, although human error is not human error.
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@bouk said:
On a zen note, humans error is human error, although human error is not human error.
My brain just broke...
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@bouk said:
On a zen note, humans error is human error, although human error is not human error.
No quack.
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@nuclear_eclipse said:
@bouk said:
On a zen note, humans error is human error, although human error is not human error.
My brain just broke...
[bart]Coooooooooooooool.[/bart]
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@nuclear_eclipse said:
@bouk said:
On a zen note, humans error is human error, although human error is not human error.
My brain just broke...Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
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@bouk said:
On a zen note, humans error is human error, although human error is not human error.
Is that origional? Can I steal it?
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@asuffield said:
@nuclear_eclipse said:
@bouk said:
On a zen note, humans error is human error, although human error is not human error.
My brain just broke...Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
You just made my day
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@bouk said:
On a zen note, humans error is human error, although human error is not human error.
This is the best thing I've heard all day.
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@The Vicar said:
Yes, but grammatically, it would still be "die roll", even if more than one die is involved. It's still "human error", not "humans error", no matter how many programmers were involved in a WTF.
Maybe, but you're forgetting that in standard vernacular English the singular of "dice" is "dice". And before you start whining about idiots who don't know better than to use incorrect backformations, consider for a moment whether you're 'smart' enough to use "pease" as a singular (instead of the incorrect backformation "pea")...
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Yes, yes. Cherry, too. (Comes from French "cerise," which sounded like a plural when it came in a few hundred years back.) But "die" is a reasonably well-known part of modern English, unlike "pease" and "cherries" -- it's not a question of using an archaism (as with the other two), but rather of two choices, one of which has the backing of authority, while the other is preferred by the ignorant. (Insert your own joke about Bush here.) It's a common business practice to build a database application out of Access and VB, and then to be dumbfounded when it can't be maintained or scaled. Would you defend that practice, too, just because it is common?