Daily WTF: +1 URI not UorI
URIs are the words of the Internet. Dare posts a WTF about Java’s URI comparison operator, which is horrendously wrong. It’s like saying duck = electricity or “when I say bad, I mean good”. That totally belongs in the daily WTF.
I’ve been struggling with the converse this week, which is nearly as bad. MSDN pages have undergone yet another gratuitous URI change, so now when you say “bad” and you mean “bad”, the Internet says “I don’t understand you, bad is now pronounced szygyz”.
When it comes to communication and memory, exclusivity is the devil. Communication is where two share one mind. It’s not “u or i”, it’s “u r i”. Running around using whatever vocabulary suits you without respect to shared terms and meaning is to poison the well.
Speaking of … WTF is up with saying that WTF means “Where’s The Fire”? Is that supposed to be antibiotics in the well?