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- silent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they forgot Blizzard's favorite: "Working as intended"
- panic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"That's a feature"
- ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"they forgot Blizzard's favorite: "Working as intended"
Heh, or MANY game devs: "we've been unable to replicate that issue on our test machines" - hollywoodcole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0#1 should be "That's weird..."
digg++ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+08 out of 10 there, and I'll probably use the other 2 from now on, hehe.
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Reboot"
- tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've used about 7 of those!
- trex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hehe, I use all of those often.
- chrbeam101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they weren biased agianst amd. the reason they went up in smoke is cause the work harder then the intel processors. in a way that was a good thing.
- snowthrower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I prefer
"We're creating a better implementation of that feature for the next version, it is disabled until then" ++digg
Great link - Pyrolistical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How about,
"Just don't do that." - m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like the "Why do you want to do it that way?" one...heh
- ignavus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that be even more handy as an (x)emacs function.
(defun make-excuse-f*ck-f*ck-f*ck ()
(interactive)
(setq excuses '("that's weird..."
"it's never done that before."
"it worked yesterday."
"you must have the wrong version."
"it works, but it hasn't been tested."
"somebody must have changed my code."
"did you check for a virus?"
"where were you whent he program blew up?"
"why do you want to di it that way?"
"i thought i fixed that."))
(insert
(concat "huh. " (nth (random (length excuses)) excuses) " "))) - groovepapa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oh yeah! those are spot-on!
- diggerphelps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have said all of those.
And that was just this morning. - muldoonaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ah how true this is
- Zeuser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As an IT guy, they missed my all time favorite, when the customer is the one at fault; you know... the same type of customer who thinks they can copy a CD using the photocopier.
"The problem is between the chair and the keyboard."
But yeah, I've used many of those myself. Especially #1 when I deal with the QA people. ;) - CatharticFlux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Said all except the virus one...
- tjubb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not a developer but I am an IT admin for our firm and I've said 75% of those. Doesn't just relate to developers but all us IT geeks! How funny!
- cantaclaro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WTF is usually the first phrase out of my mouth.
- DarthDaddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ditto, good digg.
- the-rip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha, ive said a couple of those when my professor asks me about some of my projects.
the "why do you want to do it that way?" brings back a funny memory about my yhatzee game i had to make - aMillionAndNine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know I have done 7 out of the 10 in the last month. Great list.
- ultimate_ed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My wife is a programmer - I just showed it to her and she broke down laughing. The truth hurts.
- Omicron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i love it. +digg this will make front page very fast!
- doddilus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0amen
- lady_astro08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Funny. Ive said 9 out 10.
++dig - bizygirly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's a feature not a bug...
- mr.tech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How about 'I was not told it was suppose to do that'
- Trepan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have said all of these except maybe two. it's sad that we find them funny :)
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Uhh... reboot your computer, defrag, and scan for viruses."
That usually gives me a little extra time to slack off before they come back. - Cheirdal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It works on my computer..." - sdwebguy
Yep, that should be the number one on the list. I was going to post "It works on my machine." but you beat me to it. - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+00. "It compiled, but I didn't run it"
- dumbfounded, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0must have been a solar flare
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Crap. I've used those way too many times.
- hoowahman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I definitely use #10 and #1 the most.
- newtonapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree, "WTF" should be on that list.
- zodiacal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It *should* work"
- Pharoah6905, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what about ... its an ID10T error (idiot; said eye dee ten tee)
- twoquarterlife, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with the WTF supporters, that is #1 on my list. I just said it seconds ago.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about the clasic...
"It works on my PC" - silent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PEBKAC: Problem exists between keyboard and chair
- ski081, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've said them all as well, number one being my number one also!!!!!!
- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've used them all :) Good stuff
- znxster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0class.. in fact .. gives me some ideas ;)
- b-rent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The problem is always somewhere between the chair and the keyboard!
"That's weird" is my #1 :D - steel_phantom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Have you cleared your cache?"
- standsolid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ouch
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