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Ask HN: What's the worst piece of code you've ever seen?
- Gibbon1 11y agoThis gem from today is pretty icky TEST_PACKET_T *xmt_buffer = (TEST_PACKET_T *) radio_drv_cntl->xmt_buffer; ... ... uint8_t msg_len = xmt_buffer->len; // Fill the payload with 'data' for(uint8_t indx=offsetof(TEST_PACKET_T, data); indx<msg_len-2; indx++) xmt_buffer->data[indx] = indx;
- earthshout 11y agoNot code so it doesn't count but a command. Dos: "attrib," Will strip all attributes from all files in a directory. Very easy to run accidentally. Has a partner though "dir," Show all files even hidden. Very berry handy.
- joshschreuder 11y agoI found a couple of amusing subreddits that covers this yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/badcode https://www.reddit.com/r/badcode https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror One of the top posts, the so-called Bogosort, made me laugh pretty hard, even though it's probably intentionally bad: https://imgur.com/kUizTX1 https://imgur.com/kUizTX1