11-July-2009, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Bowie, MD
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ara Pacis
The first time I saw it was a year ago on DailyKos. Since then I've seen it popping up in pop culture. I don't know where it started, but I thought it started there as a post timeout error sould return a simple "fail" statement. Of course, somewhere along the line people started saying "Epic Fail". I don't know from whence it came.
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Interesting theory--my theory was unit testing for Java has a macro called "fail" that you call in all circumstances the test does not pass.
This might be how the urban legend theories get started, like the many theories for "the whole nine yards".
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