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    | The Daily WTF
    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 of your soul. But sometimes, Satan really leaves his mark on a joint. I worked Tech Support there. You may remember The C-Level Ticket. I'm [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    Way back in 1964, people were starting to recgonize that computers were going to have a large impact on the world. There was not, at the time, very much prepackaged software, which meant if you were going to use a computer to do work, you were likely going to have to write your own programs. The too [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    For C programmers of a certain age (antique), booleans represent a frustrating challenge. But with the addition of stdbool.h, we exited the world of needing to work hard to interact with boolean values. While some gotchas are still in there, your boolean code has the opportunity to be simple. Mark's [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    Back in the antediluvian times, when I was in college, people still used floppy disks to work on their papers. This was a pretty untenable arrangement, because floppy disks lost data all the time, and few students had the wherewithal to make multiple copies. Half my time spent working helldesk was b [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    It's been several years now that our reliable contributor Daniel D. has been sending us the same gripe time after time. We get it, really we do. It irks us too, but it is astounding just how many times he's been able to find this! With no further ado, here is Daniel's pet peeve. See if you can figu [...]