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| // The magnitude of this hack compares favorably with that of the US national debt. | |
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| // Warning: Thar be dragons lurkin and black magic at work here. | |
| // Modify at your own risk! | |
| // | |
| // ^ ^ | |
| // |\ \ / /| | |
| // / \ |\__ __/| / \ | |
| // / /\ \ \ _ \/ _ / / \ | |
| // / / /\ \ {*}\/{*} / / \ \ | |
| // | | | \ \( (00) ) / // |\ \ | |
| // | | | |\ \(V""V)\ / / | || \| | |
| // | | | | \ |^--^| \ / / || || || | |
| // / / / | |( WWWW__ \/ /| || || || | |
| // | | | | | | \______\ / / || || || | |
| // | | | / | | )|______\ ) | / | || || | |
| // / / / / / /______/ /| \ \ || || | |
| // / / / / / /\_____/ |/ /__\ \ \ \ \ | |
| // | | | / / /\______/ \ \__| \ \ \ | |
| // | | | | | |\______ __ \_ \__|_| \ | |
| // | | ,___ /\______ _ _ \_ \ | | |
| // | |/ /\_____ / \ \__ \ | /\ | |
| // |/ | |\______ | | \___ \ |__/ \ | |
| // v | |\______ | | \___/ | | |
| // | |\______ | | __/ | |
| // \ \________\_ _\ ____/ | |
| // __/ /\_____ __/ / )\_, _____/ | |
| // / ___/ \uuuu/ ___/___) \______/ | |
| // VVV V VVV V | |
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| // after hours of consulting the tome of google | |
| // i have discovered that by the will of unknown forces | |
| // without the below line, IE7 believes that 6px = 12px | |
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| // If you're reading this, that means you have been put in charge of my previous project. | |
| // I am so, so sorry for you. God speed. | |
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| // And now for my final trick, getting all of that to look | |
| // half decent in the retarded step brother of the browser family | |
| // Internet Fucking Explorer! | |
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| // uncomment the following line if the program manager changes her mind again this week | |
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| // deep wizardry. do not touch. | |
| // | |
| // no seriously. Brian, I'm looking at you. If you screw with this again | |
| // I will kill you with my swingline stapler. | |
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| // Dear maintainer: | |
| // | |
| // When I wrote this code, only I and God | |
| // knew what it was. | |
| // Now, only God knows! | |
| // | |
| // So if you are done trying to 'optimize' | |
| // this routine (and failed), | |
| // please increment the following counter | |
| // as a warning to the next guy: | |
| // | |
| // total_hours_wasted_here = 67 | |
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| // For the brave souls who get this far: You are the chosen ones, | |
| // the valiant knights of programming who toil away, without rest, | |
| // fixing our most awful code. To you, true saviors, kings of men, | |
| // I say this: never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, | |
| // never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, | |
| // never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. | |
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| // I dedicate all this code, all my work, to my wife, Darlene, who will | |
| // have to support me and our three children and the dog once it gets | |
| // released into the public. | |
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| // somedev1 - 6/7/02 Adding temporary tracking of Login screen | |
| // somedev2 - 5/22/07 Temporary my ass | |
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| // You may think you know what the following code does. | |
| // But you dont. Trust me. | |
| // Fiddle with it, and youll spend many a sleepless | |
| // night cursing the moment you thought youd be clever | |
| // enough to "optimize" the code below. | |
| // Now close this file and go play with something else. | |
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| // This isn't the right way to deal with this, but today is my last day, Ron | |
| // just spilled coffee on my desk, and I'm hungry, so this will have to do... | |
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| // this comment included for the benefit of anyone grepping for swearwords: shit. | |
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| // TODO: fix later. this is crap code but it's 3 a.m and I'm drunk. | |
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