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byoung2
From an educational app:

if($_GET["action"] == "score") {//that's what she said

Scott_MacGregor
Good funny post, that was the best laugh I've had all day. Thanks!
ScottBurson
In a parser for a config file:

  if (line[0] == '#') continue;   // comment
neilc
Not to be a grouch, but most of this seems puerile and borderline irresponsible to me. Source code should be concise and beautiful, not a repository for unfunny attempts at humor by programmers.
dlnovell
You must be delightful to work on a team with
Calamitous 

    // I have to put this part in because Ken is a dick
DiabloD3
You just obliterated like 3 hours of my time. Good job!
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statictype 

    char  program [1];/* Unwarranted chumminess with compiler. */
First by Dennis Ritchie in his regular expression implementation, and then subsequently copied with the comment intact into all other regular expression implementations ever written.
aaronbrethorst
Here's a category interface in a shipping iPhone app of mine:

    @interface UIScreen (AppleAreAssholes)
    + (CGRect) convertRect:(CGRect)rect toView:(UIView *)view;
    @end
christefano
stop(); // Hammertime!
jackdaniels
I love it! :) The best one so far! I'm still laughing my ass off!
m0nty
"This ain't pretty but neither are you."
10ren
I hate the way SO only remembers you for a week or two, so when you return, you have to login, going to a separate screen and so on. Why do they have to make it so hard? What's the advantage in forcing frequent logins?

Yeah, I know I should find some other StackExchange site, go there, create an account there, login there, and post this complaint there - but you know, that's just more of the same problem. </rant>

felideon
Yes, and when you log in it "forgets" where you wanted to go in the first place.

(They may have fixed this recently, but it was like that for the longest time.)

zyfo
For a puzzled second there I thought you referred SO to significant other. I thought I was reading some obscure head-in-the-code-24/7 programmer joke.
rquirk
There was a recent forced logout on all stack* sites due to changes in the way cookies are handled. If you haven't visited in a while, that could be the cause of it.
codinghorror
Er.. what? We can't reproduce this, and there are sites in the network I don't visit very often, too.

Please note we did force logout globally, network-wide in April 2010 (to mandate emails for Google GMail OpenIDs) and September 10th 2010 (to enable global auth for all users).

Also, we delete any sessions older than 4 months as a matter of course.

So if you visit VERY infrequently, you might run into one of those.

Details:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/openid-one-year-later/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/global-network-auto-lo...

nivertech 

  /**
   * Today I'm getting discharged from the Army
   * Don't have time to properly comment the code
   * Call me if you have any questions: Name,054-XXXXXXX
   */
pmichaud
I once wrote a haiku to a particularly nasty bug where the offending line had been. I got a call years later when someone found it, they appreciated the humor.
edanm
There are lost of great ones. I especially liked this practical comment:

From the SO answer:

This seems to stop morons from messing my code...

// Autogenerated, do not edit. All changes will be undone.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c...

kd0amg
Then someone who's perhaps a bit too clever for his own good can introduce a new script into the build process so it makes some changes after the file is generated.
edw519 

  loop
    ...
    ...
    // sleep 10
    sleep 7 // Changed from "sleep 10" on 11-19-05
            // by jvj because Bruce in Buffalo bitched
            // that it ran too long.  Now he's happy.
            // The next time he bitches, change it to
            // "sleep 5".  That oughta buy us another
            // year before we have to rewrite it.
    ...
    ...
  until done do repeat
tariq
# Do this twice because its stupid and won't work once

# I apologize for how messy this is. Blame it on an inconsistent database structure. I did the best I could.

amalcon 

  // I got this code from [Bob] of [Some other group].
  // I don't know how it works; ask him.
[Bob] happened to be my manager at the time, and hadn't worked for [Some other group] for around five years.
jacquesm
/* Does your mother know you're reading this stuff? */
jrockway
You are not expected to understand this.
waivej
while (6!=9) // Hendrix loop {...}