loop
...
...
// sleep 10
sleep 7 // Changed from "sleep 10" on 11-19-05
// by jvj because Bruce in Buffalo bitched
// that it ran too long. Now he's happy.
// The next time he bitches, change it to
// "sleep 5". That oughta buy us another
// year before we have to rewrite it.
...
...
until done do repeat
Then someone who's perhaps a bit too clever for his own good can introduce a new script into the build process so it makes some changes after the file is generated.
char program [1];/* Unwarranted chumminess with compiler. */
First by Dennis Ritchie in his regular expression implementation, and then subsequently copied with the comment intact into all other regular expression implementations ever written.
I hate the way SO only remembers you for a week or two, so when you return, you have to login, going to a separate screen and so on. Why do they have to make it so hard? What's the advantage in forcing frequent logins?
Yeah, I know I should find some other StackExchange site, go there, create an account there, login there, and post this complaint there - but you know, that's just more of the same problem. </rant>
Er.. what? We can't reproduce this, and there are sites in the network I don't visit very often, too.
Please note we did force logout globally, network-wide in April 2010 (to mandate emails for Google GMail OpenIDs) and September 10th 2010 (to enable global auth for all users).
Also, we delete any sessions older than 4 months as a matter of course.
So if you visit VERY infrequently, you might run into one of those.
There was a recent forced logout on all stack* sites due to changes in the way cookies are handled. If you haven't visited in a while, that could be the cause of it.
/**
* Today I'm getting discharged from the Army
* Don't have time to properly comment the code
* Call me if you have any questions: Name,054-XXXXXXX
*/
Yeah, somebody else had complimented a change I'd made a few months earlier. I still maintain that code occasionally, and it's the only comment left I didn't write myself. I leave it there just to get that little ego boost every couple of years.
I once wrote a haiku to a particularly nasty bug where the offending line had been. I got a call years later when someone found it, they appreciated the humor.
/*
* W A R N I N G
*
* If you think you know what all of this code is doing, you are
* probably very mistaken. There be serious and nasty dragons here.
*/
Not to be a grouch, but most of this seems puerile and borderline irresponsible to me. Source code should be concise and beautiful, not a repository for unfunny attempts at humor by programmers.