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Re:The shittiest project I ever worked on by ctdonath on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @12:05AM (#6442558)
tl;dr - A very long, difficult, and complex calculation multiplied by zero is zero. Or in this case, a very long, difficult, and complex database manipulation culminated in an invariant "Call 1-800-555-5555".

Somehow reminds me of a co-worker wandering into my cube with a dazed look, mumbling "I just ran an 8-hour database job with the wrong data...I just wasted $64,000...".

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Re:The shittiest project I ever worked on by raverbashing on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @04:41AM (#6443349)
Yes, I had this impression once.

It's like a very long function that returns nothing and has no side effects.

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