// To make Flash Storage work on IE, we have to load up an
// iFrame which contains an HTML page that embeds the
// object using an object tag wrapping an embed tag.
// Of course, this is unnecessary for all browsers except
// for IE, which, to my knowledge, is the only browser in
// existance where you need to complicate your code to
// fix bugs. Goddamnit. :(

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Software: jStore
Programming language: Java Script

Thanks to Markus B. for this code candy

/**
 * Once you are done trying to ‘optimize’ this routine,
 * and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
 * please increment the following counter as a warning
 * to the next guy:
 *
 * total_hours_wasted_here = 11
 */

Programming language: PHP

/* yergh! the windows creation and arrangement with implicit
 * pair windows really really f*cking stinks! */

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Software: Spatterlight
Programming language: C

else
{
 printf( “Vorschlag: Erhäng dich, schon wieder dieser f*cking
          Fehler, ich glaub ich kotz!\n”);
 exit( 1);
}

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Programming language: C

/* Jobmine’s HTML is horror! It can be used to scare little children! Writing a regex to parse it would be worse than waterboarding. Instead, I’ll use a dirty hack. Since Jobmine’s HTML is auto-generated, clever string-based parsing can be done on it. */

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Software: jobnotifier
Programming language: C#

# Need some magical JavaScript crap to figure out the type of
# value. God the DOM sucks so much ass!!!! I can’t believe
# the value element changes based on the type of field!!

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Software: CGI-FormBuilder
Programming language: Perl

/*
AAAAAAARRHRRHRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHGGGHGHHHHHGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
F*ck me gently with a chainsaw! Will someone please tell me how the f*ck you resize a f*cking widget?? Why, when I call whatever resize method I try with 64×64 does the f*cking window end up 64×82?
WHY??????? WHY??????? WHY??????? WHY?????? WHY?????? (why..?)
*/

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Software: SSMailbox
Programming language: C

// dlerror() return a non-const char *, and it’s does
// do not specify if the caller owns it, so this may
// actually cause a leak. The moral of the story is:
// DOCUMENT YOUR F*CKING CODE!!!

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Software: libclass_loader
Programming language: C++

// it sucks to look at other peoples code and not know what
// the f*ck is going on cause they didnt comment it…
// this way if i (or someone else) sees this they will be
// able to figure out whats happening

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Software: Server Assistant
Programming language: C++

/*Note to self: convert logic below into pushing and popping a stack..that logic is much clearer and requires less fiddling. But it’s too late to care about such things right now. I’m going to f*cking bed. And yes, you can grep for the f-word now.*/

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Software: Stage Manager’s Helper
Programming language: PHP

# Note to self: I have no idea what this does anymore
# It looks like a cool f*cking segment of code though!
# I just wish I remembered writing it… :-\

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Software: SQL::Abstract
Programming language: Perl

/**
* This is the end of the Launcher. The good news: we are over
* halfway through! The bad news: the most fiendish part of
* the code still lies ahead of us.
*/

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Software: Android
Programming language: C

/* what the f*ck…this happened once when the source was
 * somehow added twice…i have NO idea how this happened,
 * but giFT shouldn’t be crashing because of it */

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Software: giFT
Programming language: C

/*
Last night I used some code that wasn’t there,
This morning It wasn’t there either.
Oh, how I wish it would stay…
*/

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Software: Sigit
Programming language: C

/*
 * Map other pairs to security names
 * here. For now just let non-IPv4 transport always succeed.
 *
 * WHAAAATTTT. No, we don’t let non-IPv4 transports
 * succeed! You must fix this to make it usable, sorry.
 * From a security standpoint this is insane. — Wes
 */

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Software: net-snmp
Programming language: C

Was man nicht alles vor Verzweiflung anbietet. Glück für den, der den Bug gefunden hat :-)

# For some reason, I just can’t get this
# to work with my mod_dav. Works with Greg’s though???
# Very very annoyed spent hours tracking it. I’ll give
# you a porsche if you can find out why it bugs out.

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