The Design and Implementation of laffer1

Caryn published a link to the daily wtf yesterday.  Here is my favorite comment:

Code is breaking in bad an unpredictable ways. I do code review of threaded codebase:

 

me: what are all these sleep()'s for?

him: oh, i use them to reduce the chance of locking problems

me: do you use locks?

him: they are too difficult to use properly, so I use sleep()