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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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As someone in this thread will note, its called sales. My way of dealing with those lying bastards is to try to get myself as high in the decision making tree as possible. I've been bit too many times by sales. After they sell a system that CAN'T work, you get the blame because you weren't competent enough to do the job, while the salesman smiles and spends his commission on a new car.

I was doing a conveyor system once and after it was done, I did some timing tests and told the salesman who happened to be on platform at the time, that it was doing 22 cartons a minute and could be ramped up to a maximum of 40 CPM. He goes, "Sssh, sssh, we sold it saying it could do 80." Dumbfounded, I exclaimed it could never do that! He pointed to the existing system that was working at the maximum it could with the existing human workflow, and said it would never need to.

This attitude combined with the one that software could ALWAYS overcome hardware problems, came back to bite them big time on two projects. Unfortunately, I was on one of them. The other system worked only if everything worked perfectly. The first thing you learn in material handing is NOTHING works 100%, 90% at best, that and FIFO doesn't work. But the system I was on, I got to function at 65 CPM. The floor manager was extremely pleased with it. But corporate was not. The contract said 120 CPM and they weren't going to sign off on it until they saw it do 120. I made myself unpopular by doing math (I always pi$$ people off when I do math) and found if everything worked perfectly, the hardware maxed out at 114. The salesman not only had used the wrong formula, he designed it with only a 1% safety margin using that formula. So the fallout---my manager was fired and the salesman is still there. I left shortly after this wonderful manager had been fired and they had brought in the bozo who virtually nothing about software.
Psychosis at 10
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