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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.

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Brisingr Aerowing10-Aug-16 3:43
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Sander Rossel24-Aug-16 7:42
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Brisingr Aerowing4-Sep-16 17:59
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It was an older Linux system that wasn't all that stable (where the true bug was, a faulty system call that the JVM used), and JDK 1.3 (yes, 1.3).

I think it was an intern working the server that turned off backups (just didn't know what he was doing).

As for the warning, Purdue has a rule about those kind of things that goes in the progression of Warning, Failed Class, Expulsion (apparently a legal requirement of some sort).

The fact that the system was so old and the other failures by the CS department were also taken into account, and lead to reprecussions for some professors for putting such a security hole in the university network. (The system was from 2004, and this incident was in 2011)

This was the students' first offense, so it was only a warning.

Most people got bad grades as the professor was using JDK 1.6 at the time. There was a major regrading and reevaluation of people who failed the class due to this, and some people were fired in the process (the professor who had set up the server that way, some IT personnel for not vetting the server as they should have, and some other people for various things).

It was kind of crazy.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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Stephen Gonzalez19-Aug-16 3:49
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Charles Programmer1-Sep-16 6:38
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Stephen Gonzalez13-Sep-16 6:34
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GeneralAnother great loop idea Pin
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Rob Grainger8-Aug-16 23:02
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Sander Rossel24-Aug-16 6:08
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GeneralFrom the mouth of the Javascript developer Pin
Super Lloyd5-Aug-16 20:18
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Sander Rossel6-Aug-16 0:50
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Rob Grainger24-Aug-16 5:15
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