; I know, it looks ugly and unsafe, but… Damn, this isn’t
; any f*ckin’ Kernel to be hugest code of the world!!!

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Software: LED Device Controller
Programming language: Assembly

/* This is so horifically stupid…
 * however, I’m tired so f*ck it */

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Software: Pinger
Programming language: C++

;Look immediately after the device_name “PWORD15″ (8 bytes
;altogether), and you should see the hardcoded password.
;THIS is what makes this sucker “not so very secure.”
;So don’t tell the users!

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Programming language: Assembly

# The purpose of this function is to take a string and escape
# it so it survives being passed through the evil eval
# command without changing at all. (Did I mention I hate the
# eval command? :-) … I just realized I hate the list
# command too… :-)

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Software: Filerunner
Programming language: Shell

# Thanks to Abigail (abigail (at) fnx.com) for the idea for
# this clever bit. I’m sure it can be made more efficient,
# though. Any suggestions? I’m too tired right now to think
# of ‘em myself. :)

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Software: Net-IRC
Programming language: Perl

/* To be sure that the init array is received by the cam, we
   send it 3 times. Yes, i’m tired of crashing, when trying
   to get a stream from a uninitalized cam… We probably
   should make some fancy i2c stuff, but hey, if it ain’t
   broken don’t fix it ;)
   BTW. it’s broken! */

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Software: SPCA5xx
Programming language: C

// getting hurt because of your own damn stupidity

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Software: Doom
Programming language: C

/*
 * We do this here because lame Ultrix doesn’t let us
 * call put_it() with a float. Perhaps put_it() should
 * be fixed properly, and this kludge removed ..
 * sometime…. -phone jan, 1993.
 */

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Software: Ninja
Programming language: C

// Ohhh Myyyy Gaaawwwd… who the fuck dreams up all this
// useless crap???

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Software: squeak
Programming language: C++

/* all of the declaration part is copied from some other
 * c-code of gEDA gschem.
 * I don’t really know, whether this all are necessary or
 * not, but it works :-). */

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Software: gEDA
Programming language: C

# While this is a cute approach, it also is less accurate
# than simply listing the papersizes because the standard
# defines the sizes in mm. I’ve left the code in here for
# entertainment and educational value :-).

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Software: Skencil
Programming language: Python

/* I _know_ that this is wrong, do not remind. :-)
 * But this works nowadays. */

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Software: iproute2
Programming language: C

/* ugly code warning, constants in line, who wrote this :-)*/
/* ok, ok it was me… Ted, come beat me up later, it was late at night */

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Software: opendrv
Programming language: C

/* Please please PPLLEEAASSEE don’t look past this line – it
   is SO ugly, but I am much too lazy to change this. Just
   run the program, don’t read the code :-). */

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Programming language: PHP

/* Ok – we have to double check that any pending votes aren’t
 * in fact expired – we’ll do it in a lame fashion (since
 * this is a pretty rare issue in any case, and this
 * function isn’t performance critical..
 * .. and yes, the programmer is lazy!)
 */

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Software: OpenServices
Programming language: C

/*
 * If I weren’t such a wimp I’d get the matrix and decompose
 * it so we start from the right place, tick, tick…
 */

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Software: pexdraw
Programming language: C

# This is icky, icky code. If some clueful person would care
# to clean it up, I’d be most grateful! :-)

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Software: exmh
Programming language: Perl

// This code is not bullet-proof. An evil WWW server could
// return a response bigger than MAXBUF and an overflow
// would occur here. Yes, I’m lazy… :-)

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

/* OMFG, ctime()? really? what are they? insane? I swear,
 * this is what happens when you let ruby developers write
 * public APIs
 */

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Software: Twitter-GLib
Programming language: C

// check if there is a auto-increment column among the tables
// cols (we’re doing this a very lame way…would be very more
// elegant to save a tables field-description localy… but…
// narrg… i’m just a stupid lamer :D … && || f*ckin’ lazy :D

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

// TODO I am a jackass. I seem to have put some sort of
// errorCode / data return object here. use Result class!

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Software: WorkgroupManager
Programming language: C#

# !!!FIXME!!! This is slow. Sloooooow. Conceptually slow, but
# the implementation sucks badly, too. It is especially
# unnerving to me that the whole lexical scope of a myriad of
# intermediate result matrices and vectors is kept because we
# use closures. Closures are great, but not in bloated
# lexical scopes. How fix that without introducing either
# – an ugly additional method
# – ugly additional blocks to keep the scope clean. (Yuck!)

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Package / Software: META-spec
Programmiersprache: Perl

# Now: we need to create a key for our encryption, but,
# ther’s a “but”, if we simply put a clear text string in our
# .pyc module, anyone can simply recover the key with a
# strings of the pyc. So, we do another dirty trick: we use
# only unprintable chars!
# Note: F*cking hell, this is a *VERY* bad coding! oh my god
# what i’m doing

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Package / Software: astronomix
Programmiersprache: Python

/*
BEWARE: big, ugly, nasty function! NOT efficient code!
I really suck for writing something that looks like this!
This is what happens when you keep adding to code for a
period of years with no real foresight. Mea culpa!!!
Please excuse the ugliness of this function. I will
rewrite it eventually, but it seems to work for now…
*/

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Package / Software: Fast Light Toolkit
Programmiersprache: C

; Uh? Mapped as equal ? Whats that? Are you crazy ?
; I’m NOT a f*cking old IBM XT

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Package / Software: 386Power
Programmiersprache: Assembly