The Daily WTF Duncan B was contracting with a company, and the contract had, up to this point, gone extremely well. The last task Duncan needed
The Daily WTF Russell F has an object that needs to display prices. Notably, this view object only ever displays a price, it never does
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The Daily WTF The year was 2015. Erik was working for LibCo, a company that offered management software for public libraries. The software
The Daily WTF This week’s installation of Error’d includes a few submissions which honestly don’t seem all that WTFy. In
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