Interesting code comments
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My favourite comment was from a developer I knew who thought that people never bothered to read comments at the start of methods. One comment explained the rules surrounding LBW (a cricket term meaning Leg Before Wicket). The comment ran to two and a half pages and, to my knowledge, is still there, still unacknowledged.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
:laugh: Some things never change, and people still don't read. When I worked for a large aerospace contractor thirty years ago, we shipped missile systems with maintenance documents that were hundreds of pages thick, printed on 'D' or 'E' size paper in blueprint form. There were no large-format laser printers then, nor any electronic documents. One engineer I worked with was certain that no one ever actually read the documents we wrote, and to prove it, he slipped 2 sheets of typed jokes into one of the manuals. The document went through the Navy review process, was approved, and deployed along with the rest of the missile system. In the five years I worked there, no word of its discovery ever reached me, and to the best of my knowledge, no one yet has ever found those jokes. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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:laugh: Some things never change, and people still don't read. When I worked for a large aerospace contractor thirty years ago, we shipped missile systems with maintenance documents that were hundreds of pages thick, printed on 'D' or 'E' size paper in blueprint form. There were no large-format laser printers then, nor any electronic documents. One engineer I worked with was certain that no one ever actually read the documents we wrote, and to prove it, he slipped 2 sheets of typed jokes into one of the manuals. The document went through the Navy review process, was approved, and deployed along with the rest of the missile system. In the five years I worked there, no word of its discovery ever reached me, and to the best of my knowledge, no one yet has ever found those jokes. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Hardbound easter egg! Brilliant!
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:laugh: Some things never change, and people still don't read. When I worked for a large aerospace contractor thirty years ago, we shipped missile systems with maintenance documents that were hundreds of pages thick, printed on 'D' or 'E' size paper in blueprint form. There were no large-format laser printers then, nor any electronic documents. One engineer I worked with was certain that no one ever actually read the documents we wrote, and to prove it, he slipped 2 sheets of typed jokes into one of the manuals. The document went through the Navy review process, was approved, and deployed along with the rest of the missile system. In the five years I worked there, no word of its discovery ever reached me, and to the best of my knowledge, no one yet has ever found those jokes. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Ha ha! Reminds me of a story from my school days. We had one English teacher we were sure never read our work, and just marked it based on who we were...the "good" students got good grades etc. So one guy eventually decided to test our theory by writing incongruous garbage mid-sentence. I don't remember what the exercise was, but he'd written stuff along the lines of "and the story is advanced by the cross-over between the cat sat on the mat theme and character" and numerous other such stupidities. Sure enough, she gave lots of red ticks and his "usual" mark.
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//Hangman game, when there are no more tries left: //Kill him and dump the body outside town
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I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly 'This space for rent' Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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:laugh: Some things never change, and people still don't read. When I worked for a large aerospace contractor thirty years ago, we shipped missile systems with maintenance documents that were hundreds of pages thick, printed on 'D' or 'E' size paper in blueprint form. There were no large-format laser printers then, nor any electronic documents. One engineer I worked with was certain that no one ever actually read the documents we wrote, and to prove it, he slipped 2 sheets of typed jokes into one of the manuals. The document went through the Navy review process, was approved, and deployed along with the rest of the missile system. In the five years I worked there, no word of its discovery ever reached me, and to the best of my knowledge, no one yet has ever found those jokes. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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(in a loud baritone voice) "Rogerrr! This is your former boss from Lockheed, report immediately to FBI!!!!
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I never worked for Lockheed (that I'm allowed to mention). ;P
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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My favourite comment was from a developer I knew who thought that people never bothered to read comments at the start of methods. One comment explained the rules surrounding LBW (a cricket term meaning Leg Before Wicket). The comment ran to two and a half pages and, to my knowledge, is still there, still unacknowledged.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Nice :laugh:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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My favourite comment was from a developer I knew who thought that people never bothered to read comments at the start of methods. One comment explained the rules surrounding LBW (a cricket term meaning Leg Before Wicket). The comment ran to two and a half pages and, to my knowledge, is still there, still unacknowledged.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
LBW needs 2.5 pages to be explained? :confused: Bounced in line, hit in line; bounced outside of off, hit in line; bounced outside of off, hit outside of off; everything else - shouldn't take more than a few [pun unintended] lines.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
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LBW needs 2.5 pages to be explained? :confused: Bounced in line, hit in line; bounced outside of off, hit in line; bounced outside of off, hit outside of off; everything else - shouldn't take more than a few [pun unintended] lines.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
Hits the pad on the full? Inside edge? Ball landing outside leg stump? Batsman offering no shot? Switch hit? I can easily see it running to 2.5 pages.
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LBW needs 2.5 pages to be explained? :confused: Bounced in line, hit in line; bounced outside of off, hit in line; bounced outside of off, hit outside of off; everything else - shouldn't take more than a few [pun unintended] lines.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
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Have you ever looked back through your code and seen some really odd or funny comments? I've coded while extremely tired two or three times, and when I looked at what I wrote in the morning, I laughed out loud. For example:
//Found in a process identification method which used an array:
//Process, I am your father. Search your table, you know it to be true//Found when rewriting a virtual memory manager:
//May illusions reign once more//Hangman game, when there are no more tries left:
//Kill him and dump the body outside townOSDev :)
This guys website has some interesting comments in the HTML http://www.joshhubi.com/[^]
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Have you ever looked back through your code and seen some really odd or funny comments? I've coded while extremely tired two or three times, and when I looked at what I wrote in the morning, I laughed out loud. For example:
//Found in a process identification method which used an array:
//Process, I am your father. Search your table, you know it to be true//Found when rewriting a virtual memory manager:
//May illusions reign once more//Hangman game, when there are no more tries left:
//Kill him and dump the body outside townOSDev :)
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Ha ha! Reminds me of a story from my school days. We had one English teacher we were sure never read our work, and just marked it based on who we were...the "good" students got good grades etc. So one guy eventually decided to test our theory by writing incongruous garbage mid-sentence. I don't remember what the exercise was, but he'd written stuff along the lines of "and the story is advanced by the cross-over between the cat sat on the mat theme and character" and numerous other such stupidities. Sure enough, she gave lots of red ticks and his "usual" mark.
Something similar happened in our school too....one of our teachers never used to read the answers in tests. There was a popular belief that she gave marks based on length of the answer. To prove this point one of the students actually wrote same line some 10-15 times, and to our surprise was awarded full marks.... :laugh:
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:laugh: Some things never change, and people still don't read. When I worked for a large aerospace contractor thirty years ago, we shipped missile systems with maintenance documents that were hundreds of pages thick, printed on 'D' or 'E' size paper in blueprint form. There were no large-format laser printers then, nor any electronic documents. One engineer I worked with was certain that no one ever actually read the documents we wrote, and to prove it, he slipped 2 sheets of typed jokes into one of the manuals. The document went through the Navy review process, was approved, and deployed along with the rest of the missile system. In the five years I worked there, no word of its discovery ever reached me, and to the best of my knowledge, no one yet has ever found those jokes. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Did the Pilots ever report back to the base? Maybe weapons of mass destructions weren't there, and then maybe Bush ain't a bad guy either ;P
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Did the Pilots ever report back to the base? Maybe weapons of mass destructions weren't there, and then maybe Bush ain't a bad guy either ;P
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My favourite comment was from a developer I knew who thought that people never bothered to read comments at the start of methods. One comment explained the rules surrounding LBW (a cricket term meaning Leg Before Wicket). The comment ran to two and a half pages and, to my knowledge, is still there, still unacknowledged.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
:laugh:
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:laugh: Some things never change, and people still don't read. When I worked for a large aerospace contractor thirty years ago, we shipped missile systems with maintenance documents that were hundreds of pages thick, printed on 'D' or 'E' size paper in blueprint form. There were no large-format laser printers then, nor any electronic documents. One engineer I worked with was certain that no one ever actually read the documents we wrote, and to prove it, he slipped 2 sheets of typed jokes into one of the manuals. The document went through the Navy review process, was approved, and deployed along with the rest of the missile system. In the five years I worked there, no word of its discovery ever reached me, and to the best of my knowledge, no one yet has ever found those jokes. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Not sure if this counts (and I'll ignore the marriage proposal printed across the middle of a 1000 page output nobody ever noticed) but when I was doing data analysis for a market research firm we had one job go horribly wrong and obviously going to miss its delivery deadline. The researcher in charge eventually psyched herself up to break the bad news to the client. His reply ? "Don't worry, we never read them anyway" His dept was tasked with getting reasearch done on the companys products so that's what he was doing.
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:laugh: Some things never change, and people still don't read. When I worked for a large aerospace contractor thirty years ago, we shipped missile systems with maintenance documents that were hundreds of pages thick, printed on 'D' or 'E' size paper in blueprint form. There were no large-format laser printers then, nor any electronic documents. One engineer I worked with was certain that no one ever actually read the documents we wrote, and to prove it, he slipped 2 sheets of typed jokes into one of the manuals. The document went through the Navy review process, was approved, and deployed along with the rest of the missile system. In the five years I worked there, no word of its discovery ever reached me, and to the best of my knowledge, no one yet has ever found those jokes. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Not quite the same sort of level, but I did something similar figuring that a boss of mine wouldn't read the documentation I wrote. Hence, in the FAQ I added a question about the effectiveness of the Crane Kick in Karate Kid. Sure enough, after "reviewing" my documentation he said it was OK...
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
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Have you ever looked back through your code and seen some really odd or funny comments? I've coded while extremely tired two or three times, and when I looked at what I wrote in the morning, I laughed out loud. For example:
//Found in a process identification method which used an array:
//Process, I am your father. Search your table, you know it to be true//Found when rewriting a virtual memory manager:
//May illusions reign once more//Hangman game, when there are no more tries left:
//Kill him and dump the body outside townOSDev :)
A comment from an
enumdeclaration, intended for other folks in my group:ErrorPsi\_OHIO\_INCORRECTINKWRN, // W – "Incorrect Ink Warning" ErrorPsi\_OHIO\_INKEXPIRED, // W – "Ink Expired Warning" \_ErrorPsi\_Marker **// INSERT NEW ERRORS ABOVE THIS VALUE; // DO NOT REMOVE THE MARKER, // LEST YE ANGER THE ELDER GODS**};
Software Zen:
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Have you ever looked back through your code and seen some really odd or funny comments? I've coded while extremely tired two or three times, and when I looked at what I wrote in the morning, I laughed out loud. For example:
//Found in a process identification method which used an array:
//Process, I am your father. Search your table, you know it to be true//Found when rewriting a virtual memory manager:
//May illusions reign once more//Hangman game, when there are no more tries left:
//Kill him and dump the body outside townOSDev :)
Working on huge labouring project a couple of the engineers had a little bet to see if 'fluffy bunnies' could make it into the final documentation. The snippet was inserted randomly into a design document and although it never made it through to an approved version the history list for the doc had the words 'remove fluffy bunnies from para 1.2.3.4' so I think that won the bet.