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nightmareofahorse

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I worked with a guy who brought 10k lines of code from various jobs over the years and slapped it all into a single commit second day on the job.

It was all VB.NET and looked like it was written in VB6 days because it was reimplementing functions that the .NET framework already provided us. And there were quite a few single line functions that did the simplest things like addition of two variables.

However my favorite function of all was IsMarksMachine() because it was used as a prod/dev switch. I ran into bugs testing the code and got the “Worked on my machine” line. Turned out the code branch under IsMarksMachine() somehow worked, but in all other cases, it didn’t.

Mark is not the real name. But man was he a bad coder.

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A little misplaced anger can go a long way!

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Ive enjoyed btop as a top alternative. I’ll check out gtop too!

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Me when I look at my hands in my dreams

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Im pretty sure I missed a lot in the first playthrough due to a dark screen haha

But agreed that it will be hard to recreate that magic - Riven really was ahead of its time and is still my favorite of the series

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