> I was fairly certain the sarcasm (or satire as I prefer to call it; sounds more intellectual) would be obvious.<p>I get that the author was being sarcastic, but I don't get what purpose they serve other than be obnoxious.
I love these. The best one I saw recently was an off-by-one error that fixed ADC read accuracy on ARM ..<p><a href="https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210322121923.804433865@linuxfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow">https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210322121923.804433865@linuxfo...</a><p>That Wilfried (my boss at the time) got into the CONTRIBUTORS file for that fix is a constant source of amusement ..
I find the lack of tests pretty appalling for this code. How do people ship code and never see something like a user login failure case etc. People talk a lot of trash about TDD, but I feel like a lot of senior devs make this highly egotistical "I know better" argument all the time and I've seen a lot of hot garbage for code because people were too busy to write the test.
My personal one liner was a static keyword in a web application.<p>It was working perfectly when they was only one user and this is why it was so difficult to debug.