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I've worked as a consultant and software developer in the financial industry for over 10 years. I've worked for three of the top five Canadian banks in both retail banking and capital markets. I'm currently working with a small consulting firm in downtown Toronto.

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Sunday
Aug222010

The greatest line of code ever

DateSunday, August 22, 2010 at 1:42AM 
if (statusIsNotValid.compareTo( Boolean.FALSE ) != 0) skipValidation = false;

I don't know what's more shocking, that someone who calls themselves a professional programmer wrote that piece of... whatever... or that it wasn't clubbed to death like a baby seal during a code review. If you ever find yourself working in a team that doesn't see the importance of code reviews, remind them that they could easily wind up with a few million lines of... that.

(Taken from The Daily WTF.)

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