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our some stupid botch of a code monkey who cant read the documentation or find some sample code 
PS: one of my collegues like to do "one workaround after the other". He has the luck that his manager isnt accepting this and hammers it out.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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It can still be a hack:
if(the conditions under which bug report #nnnnn occur are true)
{
fix things up and continue;
}This is OK when something is giving users a headache, but it soon needs to be replaced by something that fixes the root cause.
modified 17-Aug-20 10:08am.
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Greg Utas wrote: something that fixes the root cause.
I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in the UK it's very much frowned upon to kill users.
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musefan wrote: Greg Utas wrote: something that fixes the root cause.
I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in the UK it's very much frowned upon to kill users.
Greg recommended fixing the root cause, not killing it. What's the UK's position on involuntary sterilization? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Unfortunately they are pretty reluctant...
I am all for population control though, so tell all your UK friends: VOTE MUSEFAN!
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This is the comment I was looking for 
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Because there is one out there that will explode in 2031, but it's documented in the code as "will fail in 2031, but frankly I don't care as I doubt the company will last that long, let alone the hardware this is going to run on".
The company went bust seven years ago, the hardware is still in use (I see it's output every time I go shopping).
That's the only hack I can remember that I haven't fixed.
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Nah - this was Z80 based (well, HD64180 / Z180) and it wouldn't know a 32 bit number from a hole in the ground: This involved a lookup table for leap years, and got horribly complicated. Basically don't buy food after February 2031 ... 
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