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[venta]

Yes, I have sent it to http://thedailywtf.com/.

Captured on slicethepie.com, a site with a really rather flaky interface:



Y'know, I think I know why the app gave up rendering the progress bar.

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[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I see this a lot with online games too (scores and level numbers rendered as NaN). Invariably fine comedy!

(It's caused by the fact that recent versions of Flash return the string "NaN" from a toString() call on any as-yet-undefined Number, whereas outside a debugging environment it would be much better if it threw an exception.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aha. That explains it. I was a bit surprised to actually see NaN rather than some horrible crashy mess. I think you're right, though, that an exception might have been more use.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

You've never heard of the "Review track to find out!"? Their eponymously titled first album also featured an equally eponymously titled debut single.

Great stuff. Sort of electro-baroque punk with heavy gabba jazz influences.

[venta.livejournal.com]

:)

The 'Review track to find out!'s are deliberate - you don't get told the artist or track name, as reviews are supposed to be done anonymously, based on merit, yada yada.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

On the ticket on the shelf containing washing machines at Sainsbury's the other day I was interested to see that the price was presented along with the price per unit, and the price per unit was NaN.

You and I know what NaN means. It amuses me to think what the shoppers who do not made of it.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Sell your own grandmother for a damn washing machine that doesn't leak...

[hjalfi.livejournal.com]

I just regret not being fast enough, when watching the SpaceX launch webcast, to take a screenshot when their video server crashed and I ended up looking at a OSX desktop, complete with mouse pointer, with a 'This application has terminated unexpectedly' dialogue in the middle of it.

I remember being vaguely impressed with their desktop background, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was...

(Also, at Beijing airport I *did* see one of their huge LED matrix screens with a Windows error box in the middle of it. Probably not a good place to haul out a camera.)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

One of our reconstruction programs will happily tell you that your crystal volume is NaN nm wide. It crashes when you ask it to display a scale bar NaN/4 nanometres across though.