I'd really like to point fingers and scold, but other than the octal/decimal bug I feel like I've been in enough product-manager-screaming-for-a-fix positions t

I'd really like to point fingers and scold, but other than the octal/decimal bug I feel like I've been in enough product-manager-screaming-for-a-fix positions to understand how code like that can make it into a production environment. Really this should be posted on wherever _those_ guys hang out than hacker news, where we're unlikely to write code like that (even under duress)