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Back on Wing Commander 1 we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We'd clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like "EMM386 Memory manager error. Blah blah blah." We had to ship ASAP. So I hex edited the error in the memory manager itself to read "Thank you for playing Wing Commander."

And I was thinking that only newbies like me shipped those horrendous code... :P

At university there was a team (not related to me, but these guys are the perfect example :P) that made a FPS flash game...

For some bizarre reason, the programmer instead of checking if you was colliding with the wall and not allow you go there, he made the inverse, he checked if there was a wall, and allowed you to move parallel to it...

This sparked a bizarre bug: In crossings, you could not actually cross, only turn to the passage on your left or right.

The deadline was closing, and they had no idea on how to fix it...

Then the team writer fixed the issue! He told the artist to draw a animation of hands touching the walls, and then he wrote in the story that the protagonist was blind and needed to touch the walls to know where he was going.

Nemesis.666 @ 12:24, 28/08/09
Uwaga! na stronie scenowej pouet.net pojawiły się trojaniki w demkach np dziś zamierzałem pobrać i odpalić na windzie fajne intro 64k grupy farb rauch i trafiłem zonka został wykryty szkodnik jeśli lubicie pobierać demka i odpalać swoich maszynach proponuje uważać.
Szkoda że tak wspaniała twórczość ludzka jaką jest demoscena jest atakowana przez jakiś idiotów

A coworker's boss once hired a "programmer" while my buddy was on vacation (avoiding the technical interview in the process.) The guy's first task was a simple program, but it always core dumped. He made no progress trying to get it fixed, so my friend held a code review. Each and every function looked like this:

void foo()
{
...
some irrelevant but incomprehensibly bad code;
...
main();
}

Yes. He called main() at the bottom of each function. When asked about it, the "programmer" said 'that's so it'll return back to main.'

I think the biggest mistake we made was not firing that stupid manager on the spot. But I suppose if we fired managers based solely on incompetent decisions, ... well... you know.

"Do you understand recursion?"
"Yes, but to fully understand it, you must first understand recursion"