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// No, PSD is an abysmal format. Having worked on this code for several weeks now, my hate for PSD has grown to a raging fire that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns.

// Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th birthday... I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format.

Woah. This guy is a natural poet. If I were the computer, my loop might have skipped an iteration.



I love detailed comments that include prose and give me a view of the mindset of the developer who's code I'm working on. It can really help you relate to the person and their code, and make the work easier.

Although it could just be that... if someone takes the time to write a humorous comment, they probably give a shit enough to not leave slop all over the file.


The key to the jokes are to be very specific in your examples. Dave Barry talked about this.




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