tl;dr - A very long, difficult, and complex calculation multiplied by zero is ze...

		ctdonath on Sept 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The shittiest project I ever worked on tl;dr - A very long, difficult, and complex calculation multiplied by zero is zero. Or in this case, a very long, difficult, and complex database manipulation culminated in an invariant "Call 1-800-555-5555". Somehow reminds me of a co-worker wandering into my cube with a dazed look, mumbling "I just ran an 8-hour database job with the wrong data...I just wasted $64,000...".

Yes, I had this impression once.

It's like a very long function that returns nothing and has no side effects.