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What are some funny lines of code you've run/written into a project?

Andy Zhao (he/him) on December 21, 2017

Well, it's holiday season in the US and I've been gradually becoming less productive. I'd like to say it's because I have family over and that I ha...

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Stephen Chiang • Dec 21 '17

aka the octothorpe...but octothorpe it is not nearly as funny as your version ;-)

Andy Zhao (he/him) • Dec 21 '17

Wow, I have never heard of that until now. What a name!

Ben Halpern • Dec 21 '17

Can't think of anything at the moment, but I've seen some cheeky comments from linters that make me double take.

michaeltd • Dec 22 '17 • Edited

My humble contribution to silly codes.


  do
  {
    cout << "DORMAMMU, I've come to bargain!" << endl;
  }
  while (!dormammu.bargain());

michaeltd • Dec 28 '17 • Edited

Also, Inserted this to a script header

# USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! IN CASE OF FIRE OR CATASTROPHIC FAILURE,
# CALL 911 OR OTHER APROPRIATE AUTHORITIES!

Remco Wessels • Dec 22 '17

I recently put this comment // put hash in cookie in my code.

Harry Dennen • Apr 16 '18

In South Africa we have power issues which the government mitigates with "load shedding" - turning off parts of the grid during high load times.

Our app suffered similar high load call stacks causing jank, so I created a load shedding service that will spread computation across animation frames or ticks in order to keep frame rate at 60fps.

Thiru • Feb 25 '18

gulp jon-snow

Dustin King • Jan 18 '18

In a legacy Java codebase I was immersed in in my first programming job, I found this comment:

// Maybe these two lines will crush everything

Whatever code it referred to was no longer there.

Maccabee • Dec 22 '17

I'll definitely start thinking about it now. Though I work with a lot of non-native English speakers, so I'll have to be careful.

Ivan Glo • Jan 15 '18 • Edited

case VK_F12:
    // sh*t goes crazy when you press this b***h (idk wai)
    break;

Josefina R. • Dec 22 '17

This question reminded me of this: stackoverflow.com/questions/184618...