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The Weird and The Wonderful

It was the best of code, it was the worst of code. Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and flashes of brilliance

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    Microsoft, as an engineer, you make me ask WHY

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    Who needs security through obscurity?

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    Sadly, that seems to be the default setting with Apache. I've seen it often with directory listings.
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    C++ expression(s)

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    Oh my god... The MFC MESSAGE_MAP... How could i miss this rape on #define-macros and the whole C++ Language...
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    It's alive.....!

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    I was more thinking about the Bride of Pinbot, but that works with The Thing, too :) I never finish anyth
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    Amazon's rules, Amazon's fail

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    Is this the worst code in the world?

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    that just made me laugh out loud
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    Man-in-the-middle SSL-Streams

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    WTF

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    Loved the author's photo, btw.. "CS student and .NET programmer extraordinaire, currently starting out in the corporate world." Ah yes, we all looked like that when we were "currently starting out". After 20 years though, it all ends up the same way[^].. Lesson for today's youth: love your hair while you've still got it! :laugh: How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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    #if NOT_USED

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    It only confuses stupid people.
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    Wtf JS?

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    That's probably part of the reason why Allman style is not very popular in JS. And I agree: The optional semicolon is just terrible.
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    hhg

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    X| "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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    Do you need work Papers

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    Do you need work Papers

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    if...else if.. & bad casting

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    :thumbsup: :) Thanks, Robin.
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    Comedy code comment misdirection

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    Think bigger: whales.Save(); If you're having a bad day, stare at your feet and smile.
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    Fun with pointers in C++

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    You can't read C++ code without knowing the types. Who knows if equals was overridden, everything could happen. Even then you should read, GetA() return something, then operator = is called on this something.
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    I blame San Andreas - it's his default...

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    That is rather helpful; it explains that the DataManager is merely a wrapper round a connection, and that it probably should be deleted from the project and simply replaced by an IDbConnection and a factory :-\ Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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    And you thought some of the CodeProject questions were bad...

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    My favorite part is: - Perhaps you should create a spreadsheet. - Hey! Can you help creating a spreadsheet? I'm new into programming. :|
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    Fun with touchpads

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    I terminated the touch pad on my laptop (with extreme prejudice) via the BIOS. Software Zen: delete this;
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    Smiles, headache sometimes

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    Thank God the code didn't use mooning :)