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The code worked differently when the moon was full (www.hanselman.com)
submitted 8 months ago by learnbyexample@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] hallettj@leminal.space 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I love these stories! There's also,

And now that I've gone searching for these I see that they've all been helpfully collected on http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html

[–] Pantrygheist@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

Those are great stories, thanks for sharing!

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, back in the days when a hard drive was the size of a clothes dryer, some enterprising engineering students would hack the device drivers so they could make the thing gradually scoot itself across the room using nothing but well-timed drive head thrashing.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

That's awesome. What a student thing to do, as well!