Thanks to Keenora for this code candy:

function getSort() {
  // class “Doku_Parser_Mode_code” returns 200
  return 194;
}

Software: DokuWiki
Programming language: PHP

# Accessor method. Boy this one sucks. This is a backdoor
# value. If this is set then any user matching this ID will
# be successfully authenticated. Why? Strictly for testing.
# NEVER, EVER SET THIS VALUE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT THE F*CK
# YOU ARE DOING.

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: CGI::Session
Programming language: Perl

/* This is cheating, hehehe. We declare
 * the user has a 4 button joy to read
 * the 3rd and 4th button. Maybe the
 * user doesn’t have one, but hey, then
 * he won’t notice we are cheating ;)
 */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Programming language: C

/*
 * This function may be called recursively if you don’t do
 * what giFT expects of you. This is a feature, not a bug,
 * trust me.
 */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: giFT
Programming language: C

/* holy crap. who the f*ck would transfer gigabytes through
   AIM?! */
static char *sizes[4] = { “bytes”, “KB”, “MB”, “GB” };

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: pidgin
Programming language: C

# Those altavista f*ckers are playing really nasty
# redirection games these days: the filter your clicks
# through their site, but use onMouseOver to make it look
# like they’re not! Well, it makes it easier for us to
# identify search results…

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: webcollage
Programming language: Perl

Danke an Volker für diesen code candy:

/**
 * Displaying Debug warnings? (0 = now, 1+ = yes)
 * @var int
 */
 public $do_debug = 2;

/*
This uses gmtime as a convention so that all LFNs get the same timestamp based on the request, rather than the local time zone interpretation.

Why GMT? Because Im British dammit! God Save The Queen!
*/

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: ProdAgent
Programming language: Python

# code below replaces code above – any problems?
# yeah, it doesn’t f*cking work.

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: Dada Mail
Programming language: Perl

/* woohoo! fun, I have no clue how to get
 * the correct IP, so I just send forward
 * queries with all the different IPs */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: GDM – The GNOME Display Manager
Programming language: C

Vor einiger Zeit mal bei einem Dienstleister gesehen…

<script type=”text/javascript”>

document.write(“<noscript>…</noscript>”);

</script>

… aber ich hab nen Workaround um es zu fixen. Hier meine Lieblings-Zeilen von XT-Commerce – irgendwie nicht sehr Vertrauens erweckend

// don’t know why, but this happens sometimes and new user
// becomes admin
if ($customers_status == 0 || !$customers_status)
$customers_status = DEFAULT_CUSTOMERS_STATUS_ID;

Wer kennt sie nicht, die auch ganz nette Konkurrenzseite thedailywtf.com? Wußtet Ihr aber, dass die dortige Rubrik Error’d zurückreicht bis zum Januar 1753?
http://thedailywtf.com/Series/1753/01/Error_0x27_d.aspx

Darauf angesprochen, meinten die Buben nur “That’s by design!”