What's the most ridiculous hacks you've seen in production?

Sleep(5000)

Actually, this one guy caught an exception and made an elaborate path which essentially deleted the troublesome file when windows restarted.

I came in and fixed the actual issue which was that the filestream wasn't closed. One line of code vs hundreds.

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>>61701495

>>61701495
Isn't this literally the reason they skipped windows 9?

>>61701495
>department head says we can't use inputs in Java because it's a security hazard
>writes up parser to check if people are assigning inputs to any pre-production code
>coworkers just use pointers
>appends an integer and float exception
>coworkers just use strings and temporarily convert them to int/float only when being referenced
>everything is a string

Richard
fbfounderNative

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>working at pajeet tier webdev shithole
>gave two weeks one week ago
>see pic related
>in one week i'll never need to clean up shit like this again

>>61701951
This hurts

>>61701951
>in one week i'll never need to clean up shit like this again
You'll also be unemployed.

Most ridiculous one I've ever done:
>be me
>be writing a XUL application
>need to suppress auth requester dialog and pass 401s back to app for """friendliness"""
>get handle to runtime nsIObserverService
>add http-on-examine-response observer to delete WWW-Authenticate header

>>61701951
What are you going to do next?