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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
JokeRe: RLIOTD Pin
Super Lloyd5-May-21 15:07
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Gerry Schmitz5-May-21 16:49
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Bernhard Hiller6-May-21 21:41
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Gary Wheeler7-May-21 2:29
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jsc427-May-21 2:49
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Gary Wheeler7-May-21 2:56
Gary Wheeler7-May-21 2:56 
In this case it's actually a board within our commercial ink-jet printer products. It accepts print data via a fiber optic connection and parcels it out to one or more arrays of jets. Depending upon configuration, we print somewhere around 1 billion (109) drops of ink per second, where each drop is around 6-9 picoliters.

Our marketing created an interesting visual a while back. If each of our drops of ink were the size of a drop of rain, we dump an Olympic swimming pool every second.
Software Zen: delete this;

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Gary Wheeler7-May-21 15:01
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GeneralThere are times when I really wonder exactly what I was thinking ... Pin
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Dan Neely20-Apr-21 5:39
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