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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FILE_NOT_FOUND is from an old story on thedailywtf.com. Someone created a boolean enum with TRUE, FALSE and FILE_NOT_FOUND, if I recall correctly. It's been a recurring running joke.

[โ€“] foxglove@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thank you for letting me in on the joke ๐Ÿ˜„

and for catching my error!

[โ€“] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome! I guess this is your Ten Thousand moment for a mediocre joke for old programmers. ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] foxglove@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

haha, yes - exactly! At least I got that reference, xkcd is pretty well known, though.

[โ€“] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I see that they've gone back to the name "The Daily WTF". For some time, they changed to "Worse than failure" in order to avoid not even the word "fuck". ๐Ÿคท

https://thedailywtf.com/