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

Posted by sri on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @08:15PM
from the www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu dept.

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Re:Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth) by dfranke on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @11:54PM (#79996)

> 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.

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Re:Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth) by icky on Thursday November 15, 2007 @02:58AM (#80086)

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

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Re:Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth) by cdr on Thursday November 15, 2007 @12:56PM (#80278)

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

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Re:Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth) by Hexayurt on Thursday November 15, 2007 @02:40AM (#80075)

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

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Re:Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth) by icky on Thursday November 15, 2007 @03:07AM (#80087)

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

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Re:Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth) by llimllib on Thursday November 15, 2007 @08:00AM (#80158)

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

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Re:Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief (Don Knuth) by dpapathanasiou on Thursday November 15, 2007 @07:11AM (#80150)

I nominate "bit chafe"

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