Software developers are a whimsy bunch. Sometimes, the long hours and tiredness makes your brain go bye-bye. This is the result:<\/p>\n
\/**\r\n* For the brave souls who get this far: You are the chosen ones,\r\n* the valiant knights of programming who toil away, without rest,\r\n* fixing our most awful code. To you, true saviors, kings of men,\r\n* I say this: never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down,\r\n* never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry,\r\n* never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.\r\n*\/\r\n\r\n\/\/ \r\n\/\/ Dear maintainer:\r\n\/\/ \r\n\/\/ Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,\r\n\/\/ and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,\r\n\/\/ please increment the following counter as a warning\r\n\/\/ to the next guy:\r\n\/\/ \r\n\/\/ total_hours_wasted_here = 42\r\n\/\/ \r\n\r\n\/\/When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing\r\n\/\/Now, God only knows\r\n\r\nstop(); \/\/ Hammertime!\r\n\r\n\/\/Dear future me. Please forgive me. \r\n\/\/I can't even begin to express how sorry I am. \r\n\r\n\/\/private instance variable for storing age\r\npublic static int age;\r\n\r\noptions.BatchSize = 300; \/\/Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!\r\n\r\n\/\/I am not sure why this works but it fixes the problem. \r\n\r\n\/\/This code sucks, you know it and I know it. \r\n\/\/Move on and call me an idiot later.\r\n\r\n\/\/ I am not responsible of this code.\r\n\/\/ They made me write it, against my will.\r\n\r\n\/\/ drunk, fix later\r\n\r\n#define TRUE FALSE \/\/Happy debugging suckers\r\n<\/pre>\nI’m probably guilty of a few similar ones myself. Makes me giggle :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Software developers are a whimsy bunch. Sometimes, the long hours and tiredness makes your brain go bye-bye. This is the result: \/** * For the brave souls who get this far: You are the chosen ones, * the valiant knights of programming who toil away, without rest, * fixing our most awful code. To you,…<\/p>\n