IT Really Matters

Long time not written anything in here, but I’d like to rant a little about Rails’ single-table-inheritance (STI) half-assed support. I’m doing a project where using an STI started to ma...

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if (/*you*/ $_GET) { //celebrate

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//3.4 JeK My manager promised me a lap dance if I can fix this release //3.5 JeK Still waiting for that dance from my manager //3.6 JeK My manager got changed, the new manager is hairy, dont wa...

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// Catching exceptions is for communists

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In drivers/net/sunhme.c (Linux kernel): /* Welcome to Sun Microsystems, can I take your order please? */ if(!hp->happy_flags & HFLAG_FENABLE) return happy_meal_bb_write(hp, tregs, reg, value); ...

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long time; /* know C */

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/* after hours of consulting the tome of google i have discovered that by the will of unknown forces without the below line, IE7 believes that 6px = 12px */ font-size: 0px;

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Repeat … Until (JesusChristsReturn) ’ Not sure

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//MailBody builders for two outgoing messages StringBuilder hanz = new StringBuilder(); StringBuilder franz = new StringBuilder();

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// TODO: Fix this.  Fix what?

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def format_ticket_content(text, recursive = true)   if text.is_a?(TicketNote)     note = text     text = note.content   else     note = nil   end   ## Safety pig...

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// John! If you'll svn remove this once more, // I'll shut you, for God's sake! // That piece of code is not “something strange”! // That is THE AUTH VALIDATION.

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* ...and don't just declare it volatile and think you've solved  * the problem. You young punks think you know what volatile  * means... why in my day we had to cas...

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virgin = 0;     /* you're not a virgin anymore, sweety */

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public boolean isDirty() {     //Why do you always go out and     return dirty; }

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try { } catch (SQLException ex) {     // Basically, without saying too much, you're screwed. Royally and totally. } catch(Exception ex) {     //If you thought you were...

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class Act //That's me!!! { }

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// This comment is self explanatory.

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} catch (PartInitException pie) { // Mmm… pie

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// this comment included for the benefit of anyone grepping for swearwords: shit.

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