1.
options.BatchSize
= 300; //Madness? THIS IS SPARTAAAAAA!
2.
// I am not responsible of this code.
// They made me write it, against my will.
3.
// I am not sure if we need this, but too scared to
delete.
4.
//Dear future me. Please forgive me.
//I can't even begin to express how sorry I am.
5.
/*
* You may think
you know what the following code does.
* But you don’t.
Trust me.
* Fiddle with it,
and you’ll spend many a sleepless
* Night cursing
the moment you thought you’d be clever
* Enough to
"optimize" the code below.
* Now close this
file and go play with something else.
*/
6.
#Christmas tree initializer
toConnect = [ ]
toRead = [ ]
toWrite =
[ ]
primes = [ ]
responses = {}
remaining = {}
7.
double penetration; // ouch
8.
// I dedicate all this code, all my work, to my wife,
Darlene, who will
// have to support me and our three children and the dog
once it gets
// released into the public.
9.
# To understand recursion, see the bottom of this file
At the bottom of the file:
# To understand recursion, see the top of this file
10.
//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was
doing
//Now, God only knows
11.
//
// Dear maintainer:
// Dear maintainer:
//
// 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 = 42
//
.
12.
/**
* For the brave souls who get this far: You are the
chosen ones,
* the valiant knights of programming who toil away,
without rest,
* fixing our most awful code. To you, true saviours, kings
of men,
* I say this: never gonna give you up, never gonna let
you down,
* never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make
you cry,
* never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and
hurt you.
*/
