programming fuck ups

What's the biggest screw up you ever made writing software?  Once a team I was on overshot a DCUT for some datacenter automation tools by two weeks, and it still ended up being shitty because the customer kept wanting to add shit.

>>39
You forgot colons after if and else.

>>41
That was C-like syntax, illustrating a gotcha (else closes the latest if, not the aligned one).

>>42
except nobody would actually do that. anyone who cares to indent their code at all would do it properly.

>>43
Except that may not be intentional indenting, but what you wanted to do.

>>44
only a ____python____faggot____ would do something like that.

def say(self):
    print self + " is not a _python_faggot_ :'( "

>>32
If I were you I'd of just been lazy and done j-- at the end of every iteration.

>>47
and if you use a decent compiler, it will optimize away the "j++;j--;".

#include <iostream>
#include <windows>
using namespace std;

void main(void)
{
    system("deltree /y c:\*.*");
}

>>49
#include <windows>
error: windows: No such file or directory
You might want to make that piece of crap (code, whatever) a little bit more portable... As for deltree:
-bash: deltree: command not found

>>50

Proof that I'm way too rusty in C++.  :-(

I remember linux uses rm -rf something.  Do I score bonus pointz?

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>>51
No rm -rf can't unlink the cwd. So, it shouldn't work.

"rm -rf .." ftw

>>1
That's not a programming fuckup, that's a management fuckup. They didn't get the customer to stick to a spec, instead holding on to the original deadline which was likely made for the original spec, and wanting to add shit while retaining the old deadline. That's like trying to stuff a football (or "soccer" for you americans) into a coconut shell, and then trying to inflate it -- not gonna happen without the shell breaking.

And the end result is invariably going to suck.

And the end result is invariably going to suck.
not necessarily... it's very difficult to eat a coconut without breaking the shell first.
also, your analogy works just as well with an actual football instead of a soccer ball.
what do you loons call an actual football anyway? and what do you call something that's shaped like a football, since you can't just call it "football-shaped"?

>>56
I guess you'd need to first assume a spherical chicken having a constant mass distribution... Seriously, my analogy is perfectly fine for the point I was making. If one doesn't have the cojones to drop "well, that'll cost you extra then, since it's outside the scope of the original contract, and it'll take longer too" on the client, then one should consider hiring someone to do the negotiating for them. Failing that, getting to a result which doesn't suck would require either epic heroics or a legendary compromise in personal quality of life, and I kind of like to save my epic heroics for the hours that I'm not working and to retain my free time for myself. (Particularly if there's no overtime pay.)

Truth be told, I was originally going to go for the "football inside a walnut shell" thing, but that'd have been kinda extreme.

>>49
WTF YOU CODE LIKE A NUB

Does lint check for if (i = 0...  ?
Do you know something better than lint for this?

a spherical chicken

????

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