Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From?

theodp writes: "Michael Raithel was polling the SAS crowd, but it'd be interesting to hear the answers to the programming questions he posed from a broader audience: 1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from? 2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program? 3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from? 4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?"

*Weirdest* place?

[DoofusOfDeath]

That would be in the butt, Bob. [youtube.com]

The obvious answer

[comrade1]

That would be in the butt, Bob.

Re:My Job

[immaterial]

A 24 Horus deadline? Just six of those falcon-headed bastards strutting around all godlike and hassling me about missed TPS reports is bad enough, but 24... To be honest, at that point I might just throw myself into the Nile and let my ka move on to the realm of Osiris.

Re:On the Toilet

[Opportunist]

Weren't you afraid of a core dump? Or, worse, a buffer overflow?

Re:... FROM?

[Smallpond]

There is no reason to put from at the end. Is stupid just something caught the internet from?

Prepositions on the end of sentences is something up with which I will not put.

Re:... FROM?

[Urquhardt]

Or to paraphrase, "That is something up with which you will not put".

Re:On the Toilet

[coofercat]

Just make sure you have the right back end capacity. It's usually just a matter of checking your logs.

Re:Early morning coding

[drinkypoo]

Nobody wants to get woken up at 2am because of a period.

Re:Car repair shop for me

[Warhaven]

As for most unusual circumstances, about 15 years ago me and the owner (and also programmer) of the company i was working for at the time fixed in 15 minutes a bug that neither of us had been able to fix in the last 2 weeks sober. It was 3 am and we were both dead drunk as we were celebrating someone's birthday at the office :)

Ah, yes, the "Ballmer Peak." [xkcd.com] A well-documented phenomena.