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What was the most interesting, funny or silly Code you have ever read?

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  • L LloydA111

    I'm not sure, but I've always thought it would be funny to leave this in some code and see people's faces:

    if(10 != 10){
    abort();
    }

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    Rage
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    You need to combine that with an adapted vague comment:

    // Perform t53-i check on the v3-23 kernel.
    // Abort if failure.

    ~RaGE();

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      At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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      Aadhar Joshi
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      Where 1=1 I mean that is obvious..

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      • A Aadhar Joshi

        Where 1=1 I mean that is obvious..

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        Bernhard Hiller
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        That's a good point to start complex WHERE clauses. Just add all other constraints with an AND X=Y. You do not need to worry if the statement is the first statement (no AND required) or not (AND required).

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          At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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          Bernhard Hiller
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          Just make sure they do not come up with PrintLibel() and this._Libel.

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          • A Aadhar Joshi

            Where 1=1 I mean that is obvious..

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            Andrew Rissing
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            As a variation on that, you could do something like this:

            if ('l' == '1')
            {
            Abort();
            }

            Just to play with people who would use fonts that don't distinguish the two well...

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              At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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              Clark Kent123
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              My favorite that I have seen is this...

              if variable < 24 And variable > 26 then
              '...
              end if

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              • C Clark Kent123

                My favorite that I have seen is this...

                if variable < 24 And variable > 26 then
                '...
                end if

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                AspDotNetDev
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                Ah, variable is surely of type MagnitudeNumber, yes? With a value of -50? It is both less than 24 (because it's negative) and its magnitude is greater than 26. The comparison operator obviously checks both the signed and unsigned number, and returns true if either satisfy the condition.

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                  Ah, variable is surely of type MagnitudeNumber, yes? With a value of -50? It is both less than 24 (because it's negative) and its magnitude is greater than 26. The comparison operator obviously checks both the signed and unsigned number, and returns true if either satisfy the condition.

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                  Clark Kent123
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                  Uhhhh... sure! :) Just kidding. The programmer at the time just probably forgot that they checked the same variable twice. Maybe it was supposed to be another variable. I have no clue what the intention was, but its still active in the program. I don't have the heart to comment it out because of how funny the goof is. :laugh:

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                    At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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                    Brisingr Aerowing
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                    if (this == null)
                    {
                    //WTF just happened?!?!!
                    Environment.Exit(-1);
                    }

                    I cannot remember the exact code block, but it was something along those lines. And yes, somehow, that condition happened. And 'this' was the actual keyword, not some redefinition of it. I still don't know how that one happened.

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                    • A Aadhar Joshi

                      Where 1=1 I mean that is obvious..

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                      The Sql Coder
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                      yes it could happen

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                        if (this == null)
                        {
                        //WTF just happened?!?!!
                        Environment.Exit(-1);
                        }

                        I cannot remember the exact code block, but it was something along those lines. And yes, somehow, that condition happened. And 'this' was the actual keyword, not some redefinition of it. I still don't know how that one happened.

                        I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking

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                        Sentenryu
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                        your object was finalized before the time, probably it had a unmanaged reference, when it had no more managed references, the GC collected it... Forgeting to pin a object is really a PITA, especially when it's the first time you are doing P/Invoke :sigh: (i was speaking of me, not sure if this is your case)

                        I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

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                          At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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                          Fran Porretto
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                          A professor of Computer Science -- a world-renowned expert on PL/I -- once wrote the following: if ((i != 1) || (i != 2)) ... else ... (Yes, the above is in C. I can't remember the PL/I syntax.) He spent most of a day trying to figure out why the "else" branch was never executed. A graduate programming assistant had to point it out to him. (This message is programming you in ways you cannot detect. Be afraid.)

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                            At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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                            JiveCode
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                            if (my $thisScriptHasBecomeSkynet) {
                            die;
                            }

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                              At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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                              Stuart Rubin
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                              When I first saw this comment, I thought it was ridiculous, but now I see a lot of beauty in the f actuality and irony of it. Here it is: // Note that there are 1024 milliseconds in a second

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                                That's a good point to start complex WHERE clauses. Just add all other constraints with an AND X=Y. You do not need to worry if the statement is the first statement (no AND required) or not (AND required).

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                                Fabio Franco
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                                That's specially useful when you need to constantly comment in and out some of the conditions to find the right records. Without that you'd have to worry to every time replace the AND for a WHERE and vice-versa.

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                                  At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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                                  BrainiacV
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                                  You mean aside from this[^]? At one place I worked, we were under deadline and a coworker was going to take some time off. He said his part of the project was done and tested. He gave me a copy to integrate into my code and went on vacation. I installed it and it promptly fell on its face. Looking through the code, it was a complete mess. I ended up taking a hatchet to it, but one routine caught my eye. It was supposed to center some text on a line. Instead of taking the length of the line, subtracting the length of the string, then dividing by two to get the number of spaces to print before the string, he instead created a string of spaces for the length of the line, overlaid the string at the beginning, and then iteratively added spaces at the beginning and removed spaces at the end until they were equal or the leading spaces was longer than the trailing spaces. It was the only routine that worked and I left it in place to illustrate the type of code I had to deal with. I still tried to cover for him, but since rewriting his code impacted the development of my code, when the manager came by breathing fire because I was falling behind, I had to show his work to her. When he came by after his vacation I showed him my changes, he said, "Yes, that's my code." I snarled internally that this bozo couldn't even recognize his code and how I had changed it (chopped 1/3 or more of it out) and then I advised him to take a tube of KY Jelly with him to his meeting with our supervisor because I knew she was going to ream him out.

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                                    At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();

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                                    Patrick Fox
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                                    It wasn't funny at the time, but any VB.Net code that looked like this is hilarious in retrospect:

                                    try

                                    ' lots of statements

                                    catch
                                    end try

                                    Or even worse:

                                    On Error Resume Next

                                    ' lots of statements

                                    The developer's excuse? "My code doesn't crash!" Yeah. It also didn't work.

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                                      My favorite that I have seen is this...

                                      if variable < 24 And variable > 26 then
                                      '...
                                      end if

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                                      Ronald A
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                                      it could be a 'typo' for an Or :)

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                                        It wasn't funny at the time, but any VB.Net code that looked like this is hilarious in retrospect:

                                        try

                                        ' lots of statements

                                        catch
                                        end try

                                        Or even worse:

                                        On Error Resume Next

                                        ' lots of statements

                                        The developer's excuse? "My code doesn't crash!" Yeah. It also didn't work.

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                                        Phil_Murray
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                                        This one has it beat.

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                                          This one has it beat.

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                                          Patrick Fox
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                                          That's downright scary. I insist that people use C# so they don't get into bad habits like that.

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