it was from Smashing Magazine. The author referenced this stackoverflow question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered A lot of the other comments are as good. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > > love it. thanks for sharing > > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Saw this in Smashing Magazine: > > > > // > > // 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 = 42 > > // > > > > brilliant. > > > > -- > > Larry C. Lyons > > web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons > > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367564 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
