Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth)(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

10 pointsby sri19년 전7 comments

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Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth)

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html

7 comments

> I myself have often cried out for help to colleagues who have generously made house calls, in order to unwedge my highly customized Linux system.

Wow. Talk about bragging rights.

icky19년 전

What he didn't admit is that they were there to help him install TeX... ;-)

cdr19년 전

Cyber-despair is a sure winner. "Cyber" sounds trendy and "despair" accurately captures the feeling, unlike some of the more mild descriptors.

Hexayurt19년 전

First world pain is a term for things like going to the ATM and having it eat your card inexplicably. That seems close.

icky19년 전

I nominate "trompulauma". Selected because it makes little sense and takes more syllables than "High-Tech Grief".

llimllib19년 전

More interestingly, he's asking for help with some of his TAOCP problems...

dpapathanasiou19년 전

I nominate "bit chafe"