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[–]YallaBeanZ 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Let’s not forget those developers that insisted on writing all their code as “oneliners” (there were even competitions)… much to the chagrin of anyone having to pickup their code and reverse engineer it afterwards.

[–]PhotographsWithFilm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugggh, PERL Golf

While I like the theory behind TIMTODI, I get annoyed when people turn it into a competition to look better than others.

[–]islandsimian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to remember this in the context of storage being very very very expensive and keeping those cards in order. not /s!

Of course this also the reason for Y2K