The Daily WTF Once upon a time, there lived a man named Eric. Eric was a programmer working for the online development team of a company called

The Daily WTF If you’re fetching data from a remote source, “retry until a timeout is hit” is a pretty standard pattern. And

The Daily WTF It’s Labor Day in the US, where we celebrate the labor movement and people who, y’know, do actual work. So let’s

The Daily WTF “Beyond the realm of Null, past the Black Stump, lies the mythical FILE_NOT_FOUND,” writes Chris A. “I know,

The Daily WTF If you want millions in VC funding, mumble the words “machine learning” and “disruption” and they’ll blunder out of the woods to

The Daily WTF Trung worked for a Microsoft and .NET framework shop that used AutoMapper to simplify object mapping between tiers. Their

The Daily WTF Networks are complex beasts, and as they grow, they get more complicated. Diagnosing and understanding problems on networks rapidly

The Daily WTF Zak S worked for a retailer which, as so often happens, got swallowed up by Initech’s retail division. Zak’s employer

The Daily WTF “My Kindle showed me this for the entire time I read this book. Luckily, page 31 is really exciting!” writes Hans H.

The Daily WTF I’m going to open with just one line, just one line from Megan D, before we dig into the story: public static boolean