Posted on Feb 19 2008
Legal System as a Perl OS?
Filed Under (Fun Stuff) by Keithius

OK, you really do have to be a geek to understand this, but that doesn’t make it any less funny:

Our legal code is almost entirely like an entire operating system written in undocumented Perl.

  • There are no hints as to what any part of it is supposed to do and it is written in a language that to most people looks like line noise.
  • Every significant patch is applied by adding an additional Perl module that overrides an existing method in an existing module, replacing all of the code in that method with a complete new copy of the method that is almost identical to the old one but adds or removes a backslash in a single regular expression.
  • The entire core logic was written in a crunch session by a bunch of geeks locked in a room together and forced to design it by committee.
  • The application was a rewrite of another application that never really worked well in the first place.
  • Every function name is chosen explicitly to provoke an emotional response in the developer, e.g. thisFunctionSucks() or callMeNow().

It’s funny because it’s true.

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Posted on Feb 11 2008
Programmer Humor
Filed Under (Fun Stuff) by Keithius

From Painless Bug Tracking @ Joel on Software:

If you don’t specify what you expected to see, I may not understand why this is a bug. The splash screen has blood on it. So what? I cut my fingers when I was coding it. What did you expect? Ah, you say that the spec required no blood! Now I understand why you consider this a bug.

This sort of stuff cracks me up, but you may need to be a software developer for it to be funny.

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Posted on Feb 07 2008
Amusing .Sig
Filed Under (Fun Stuff) by Keithius

A great sig, found once again on Slashdot:

Oh look, its my tax dollars at work coming to arrest me.