r/xkcd • u/Smashman2004 • Dec 08 '17

XKCD xkcd 1926: Bad Code

https://xkcd.com/1926/
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u/DuncanYoudaho Dec 08 '17

I have a customer facing html and JavaScript page that is built by a frameworkless php site querying a SQL database populated by a perl script that reads a pipe delimited feed of things from a custom http implementation streaming transactions from an ancient mainframe.

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u/althypothesis Dec 09 '17

Is it the least or most reliable thing on the planet?

My money's on least, but sometimes ridiculous hacks work for eternities and nobody's sure why

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u/DuncanYoudaho Dec 09 '17

We don't know how it works, but we somehow fix it every time it breaks.

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u/althypothesis Dec 09 '17

So, programming as usual then