Wierd/Funny Programming Experiences

badassmaster · 12-19-2013, 03:01 PM

OK, admit it. Most of us are geeks at heart and I'm sure a lot of us dabble, or professionally program. I've come across a few weird and funny experiences in my time as a programmer and would love to see if any one else has!

The two recent ones are these.

Going through some legacy code for a customers token system written in Perl I came across this random comment.. still no idea who wrote it:

Code:

 # is shit-burger hyphenated?

And this one on a billing web application, I found some Javascript keybindings and what looked like base64 representation of an ogg file. I ran the bindings in my browser which were Down arrow, Right Arrow, A key. To my surprise the speakers screamed out HADOUKEN. People in the office thought I was playing a video game.

Someone also thought it funny to install fartscroll on our internal wiki who were unaware a client was being shown specific pages in the conference room on our big television. Reference: http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/

Any one else have any stories to share?

12-19-2013, 03:01 PM	#1
badassmaster Apprentice Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 88	Wierd/Funny Programming Experiences OK, admit it. Most of us are geeks at heart and I'm sure a lot of us dabble, or professionally program. I've come across a few weird and funny experiences in my time as a programmer and would love to see if any one else has! The two recent ones are these. Going through some legacy code for a customers token system written in Perl I came across this random comment.. still no idea who wrote it: Code: # is shit-burger hyphenated? And this one on a billing web application, I found some Javascript keybindings and what looked like base64 representation of an ogg file. I ran the bindings in my browser which were Down arrow, Right Arrow, A key. To my surprise the speakers screamed out HADOUKEN. People in the office thought I was playing a video game. Someone also thought it funny to install fartscroll on our internal wiki who were unaware a client was being shown specific pages in the conference room on our big television. Reference: http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/ Any one else have any stories to share? __________________ Warjuice