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  "I thought I'd be a little geeky-romantic with my girlfriend and write a sweet note to her," Jonathan writes, "however, it seems Amazon.com did not really like the idea and suspected '
• 2     FreeThisSchnizzle() - The Daily WTF
  
• 2     A Book Review: 2000 Insults for All Occasions - The Daily WTF
  

  You’re very careful about your health; you only smoke filter-tipped marijuanas!
  
  You’d be smarter if you smarted in the right places!
  
  You are a real sadist; you lock the bathroom on the nights of your grandfather’s beer parties.
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  "When we interview people," cablecar wrote on the Sidebar, "we give them simple programming tasks to test their ability. The below code was an attempt to solve a problem I found on Project Euler. It's from a candidate for a senior development position with '10 years of PHP' experience.
• 3     A Bit More Involved - The Daily WTF
  
• 1     Code Dendrochronology - The Daily WTF
  

  There's code that fails (often an accidental checkin with something hacky that gets forgotten), and code that takes special time and attention to fail spectacularly, of which this is a shining example. Maintenance is done by quick fixes, and version history is maintained via commented-out lines. L
• 2     A Completely Different Game - The Daily WTF
  
• 2     The Hot Room - The Daily WTF
  

  "Not only did the Hot Room house nearly half a million dollars worth of gear, but if any one of the core components – such as the core router or PBX – failed from overheating, it would be a business catastrophe. He asked Aaron, the network operations manager, for some more background."
• 2     Unprepared For Divide_By_Zero - The Daily WTF
  

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