C Comments
C Comments Don’t recall where I’ve seen these: and (in code to create some sort of UNIX daemon):
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Yet another IE issue
Yet another IE issue ED: I remember a few years ago, my PM said he wrote off our complaints about IE as just bitching. Then he got a job doing web development and realized what a PIA IE is.
Hungry?
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How Long?
How Long AD: No one knows the day or the hour.
Pump You Up
Pump You Up I still chuckle a little when I read that one…
I Forgot
I Forgot this has turned up in my own code a few times. obviously I touched it more than once:
Safety pig
Safety pig ED: Ahh, more ascii art.
Don’t do it, John!
Don’t do it, John! And what do you think? The code below was safely ‘svn removed’.
What’s an Inverse Square Root?
Inverse Square Root Taken from the Quake III source, I stumbled across this in some random slashdot posting. Full source of the file can be found here. It’s a particularly fast method of calculating an inverse square root. As for the best comment? It’s a common one to be sure, but given that it’s attached to…
Doom Walls
Doom Walls The original Doom had an engine with static walls that could not move; the result was that all doors opened vertically; nothing could ever move horizontally. I burst out laughing when, after the source code was released, I was looking through the code and saw this in the source file for handling doors,…