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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.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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trønderen25-Jan-23 9:28
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GeneralHow old am I, according to Amazon? Pin
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jsc4215-Jan-23 23:05
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Richard Deeming wrote:
Don't blame the driver
I didn't! He accepted that we were both over 18 (min age required for buying a knife) as the calculated (albeit wrong) ages were much greater than 18 and than was the only verification that he needed. The problem would have been if we were 17 year olds as the calculation would have erroneously said we could legally accept the knife as it said we were 18.
Richard Deeming wrote:
(Of course, if he couldn't see the problem with the question and just tick "yes", that's another story...)
I didn't even attempt to try to explain why the answer was wrong - delivery drivers have very tight schedules that do not include timeouts for lessons in basic algorithms. However, if Amazon send me a request to write a review, I will include this flaw and that there is the potential for a legal transgression in the review.
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