Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
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Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#2> so we need to add yet more ugliness in the form of assembler to an app which is already hardly a paragon of pulchritude
Throwing some serious vocab shade in these comments, love it.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#3One of the ugly hacks you do in SAP to make it work is reading/changing variables and structures inside the SAP standard code because there is no API exposing them.
It is blessed officially as doing a "dirty" assign.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#4Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!
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#5Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!
Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#6My favorite part is
> If you add some obscure code such as below, to this or any other app, even if it has only the teeniest chance of being less blindingly obvious to someone else than it is to you at the time of writing, please please please add a fing comment.
This rings as true now as it did then and its my favorite comment so far out of this whole leak. I've reached a point where my comments are there to remind myself why I did a thing, because more often than not I'm the poor bastard who's stuck fixing what past me did, and past me was either a sadistic asshole or a blithering idiot.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#7Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!
Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.
It means physical beauty, like an attractive appearance.
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#8Microsoft internal shade. Juicy!
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#9Lecturing on keyboard shortcuts when windows media player is the only video player in the world not using the space bar as a shortcut for play/pause.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#10This is why I love open source. In LibreOffice, cruft like this is often removed due to the embarrassment factor.