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8May/091

Geeks just wanna have phun!

I don't know if bad commenting made this man code for food, but if you don't clean ut your comments this could be the result!

//
// Dear maintainer:
//
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
//
// total_hours_wasted_here = 16
//

And the top funniest source-code comment as of now:

//Code sanitized to protect the foolish.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Web.UI;
 
namespace Mobile.Web.Control
{    
	/// <summary>    
	/// Class used to work around Richard being a fucking idiot    
	/// </summary>    
	/// <remarks>    
	/// The point of this is to work around his poor design so that paging will     
	/// work on a mobile control. The main problem is the BindCompany() method,    
	/// which he hoped would be able to do everything. I hope he dies.    
	/// </remarks>    
	public abstract class RichardIsAFuckingIdiotControl : MobileBaseControl, ICompanyProfileControl    
	{        
		protected abstract Pager Pager { get; }    
 
		public void BindCompany(int companyId) { }
 
		public RichardIsAFuckingIdiotControl()        
		{            
			MakeSureNobodyAccidentallyGetsBittenByRichardsStupidity();        
		}     
 
		private void MakeSureNobodyAccidentallyGetsBittenByRichardsStupidity()        
		{            
			// Make sure nobody is actually using that fucking bindcompany method            
			MethodInfo m = this.GetType().GetMethod("BindCompany", BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly |                 
				BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic);            
			if (m != null)            
			{                
				throw new RichardIsAFuckingIdiotException("No!! Don't use the fucking BindCompany method!!!");            
			}            
			// P.S. this method is a joke ... the rest of the class is fucking serious        
		}        
		/// <summary>        
		/// This returns true if this control is supposed to be doing anything        
		/// at all for this request. Richard thought it was a good idea to load        
		/// the entire website during every request and have things turn themselves        
		/// off. He also thought bandanas and aviator sunglasses were "fuckin'         
		/// gnarly, dude."        
		/// </summary>        
		protected bool IsThisTheRightPageImNotSureBecauseRichardIsDumb()        
		{            
			return Request.QueryString["Section"] == this.MenuItemKey;        
		}        
 
		protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)        
		{            
			if (IsThisTheRightPageImNotSureBecauseRichardIsDumb())            
			{                
				Page.LoadComplete += new EventHandler(Page_LoadComplete);                
				Pager.RowCount = GetRowCountBecauseRichardIsDumb();            
			}            
			base.OnLoad(e);        
		}  
 
		protected abstract int GetRowCountBecauseRichardIsDumb();        
		protected abstract void BindDataBecauseRichardIsDumb();  
 
		void Page_LoadComplete(object sender, EventArgs e)        
		{            
			BindDataBecauseRichardIsDumb();        
		}  
 
		// the rest of his reduh-ndant interface members        
		public abstract string MenuItemName { get; set; }        
		public abstract string MenuItemKey { get; set; }        
		public abstract bool IsCapable(CapabilityCheck checker, int companyId);        	
		public abstract bool ShowInMenu { get; }        
		public virtual Control CreateHeaderControl()        
		{            
			return null;        
		}    
	}
}

You can read the rest of these funny comments on:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618?sort=votes&page=1

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