Representative Line: On a Budget

January 30th, 2008  |  Published in Code Development

Representative Line: On a Budget: “

‘I was called in by a small company to make some minor changes to their software,’ Baughn wrote, ‘mostly language translations. Apparently, the normal maintainer had just up and quit.’
‘As I entered my temporary office, I got an inkling of why. On the wobbly desk sat a flickering 15′ CRT attached to a grimy, Compaq-branded Pentium II. But what made up my mind, however, was this following line.’
if (exitStatus==(3-3)) // Sorry, some ov my keys are broken

You know you are in trouble if this could happen in your home office, as a remote worker….

(Via The Daily WTF.)

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