{"id":1989,"date":"2013-10-30T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T22:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2013-10-30T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T22:54:44","slug":"best-comment-in-the-history-of-well-ever-for-all-values-of-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Comment In The History of &#8230; well Ever (for ALL values of Ever) ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute]<\/span><\/span><p>In the comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2013\/10\/29\/10461148.aspx\">Raymond Chen&#8217;s blog post today<\/a>, was a reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/1705008\/simple-proof-that-guid-is-not-unique\">a startling question on Stack-Overflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As if the question itself wasn&#8217;t (<em>un<\/em>intentionally) amusing enough, the accepted answer demonstrates a commitment to lost causes that is truly inspired and contains a number of (<em>intentional<\/em> and very clever) laugh out loud moments for developer types.<\/p>\n<p>But the absolute pinnacle of the achievement has to be one line from one of the comments in the code submitted with that answer:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n   \/\/ Keep running until the heat death of the universe.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Has anyone ever encountered a comment that gave them such a chuckle ?  Or a guffaw ?  Or just a wry grin ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute]<\/span><\/span>In the comments on Raymond Chen&#8217;s blog post today, was a reference to a startling question on Stack-Overflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi","tag-code-humour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-w5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}