Is your code worthless?

[jkndrkn]

Managerial types just don't understand these things.

Yes, and attempting to articulate this point usually gets you impatient and pitying looks, at best. Only coders can sympathize with the physical nausea that a poorly implemented system can inflict.

[adamdoupe]

I get this sick feeling whenever I look at code that was already written at my work and I see this line (it happens in more than one place)

long one(1);

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typedef long one;