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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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Reminds me of a place I worked at that had the application maintain a trace log. Procedure calls and errors were logged to a disk file.

So when the disk was full and generated an error...

Only to be matched by their desire not to have a cursor displayed (pre-Windows version) during start up that they moved the cursor off the screen and then wondered why a start up error message was not being displayed...

I told them to just turn the cursor off. I was told you couldn't do that, see the Peter Norton book...and then any other book and find them using the same sentence. I pulled out my 6845 CRTC controller spec sheet and turned the cursor off with it still on the screen space. Error messages became visible.

My Former Bitch Supervisor From HellTM declared I was arrogant for thinking I was smarter than Peter Norton (a claim I never made).
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11

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