My feeling about DailyWTF is similar to visiting an art exhibition with paintings done by an unguided community class. The whole thing is clearly driven by a fundamental need to create something, and many of the exhibited works demonstrate an intoxicating thrill of getting something finished... But at the same time they make it clear why that thrill alone isn't a good enough reason for the work to be shown in public.
Take the stories with a huge grain of salt. Many people have complained about their stories being hugely exaggerated before being published.
Alex Papadimoulis (the author of the website) has also admitted in an email that he often makes up new stories by embellishing old ones. The email used to be on the following link, but now you must ask the Programming Praxis author for a copy. http://programmingpraxis.com/2009/08/13/the-daily-wtf-malici...
That keeps me from getting too depressed when reading any of them.
It's funny to see how they rationalise problems later as being entirely necessary to the problem (I've witnessed this first hand), and nothing to do with a misapprehension of the difficulty of the problem.
Am I the only one here who finds the dailywtf sometimes extremely depressing?!
[1]:http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/being-the-averagest