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This is stupid, yet necessary

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/07/14/ten-famous-things-napoleon-never-actually-said/

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

The quote should be attributed to Robert J. Hanlon, Napoleon has enough accolades ;)

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html,
exceptions seem to be made for only non-English translations.

where the w values hint that they are words, but they really refer to longs. The real value of this approach comes clear with the Win64 migration, when the parameters will be 64 bits wide, but the old w and l prefixes will remain forever.

This is a bit misleading, since words and longs are of different size in different systems. From what I remember C spec was allowing (or even encouraging) this. There are other types used int32, uint32 (for unsigned) etc. for immutable-size types.

This has to be considered when writing portable (between architectures/CPUs) code that assumes certain data structure offsets/sizes etc.

If annyone is smart enough to do this they can get a new job as an actually useful programmer instead of being an asshole.

Even my children cried.

Theirs too, in years to come, will cry at the very nature of the wisdom you pass on.

Please read the Wiki article on Hanlon's razor. This quote has been consistently misattributed, although I must admit this is the first time I personally have seen it attributed to Napoleon.

I'll need to clear it with the original author of this article first, but I imagine it should be ok to create a new organization, https://github.com/unmaintainable-code to house this repository, as well as new versions of it that are maintained by the community.

I'm not sure yet what the details are, but I do know that by creating a new organization, there can be a clear distinction between the original (altered for formatting reasons only) and derivative works, as well as allowing for additional contributors. My hope is that @RoedyGreen would be interested in participating in some capacity!

I'm starting to see more and more suggestions for new content in this article, such as #20, #18, #17, and #14. I am a big supporter of having some new ideas get brought to this article, but not at the original's expense.

Swift lets you use emojis in your code as variable names, functions etc. which is basically impossible to read. I don't know if this is supported in other languages though...

I note that this version elides the copyright notice of the original. Did you in fact acquire permission to repost it?