Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity (github.com)

JustAnotherOldGuy writes: Mimic implements a devilishly sick idea floated on Twitter by Peter Ritchie: "Replace a semicolon (;) with a Greek question mark (;) in your friend's C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error." There are quite a few characters in the Unicode character set that look, to some extent or another, like others – homoglyphs. Mimic substitutes common ASCII characters for obscure homoglyphs. Caution: using this script may get you fired and/or beaten to a pulp.

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Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

git revert [commit]

"Your commit broke the build. Fix it."

Bonus points if your continuous integration build server catches it automatically.

Then have a talk with the author of this non-sense commit about wasting corporate resources.

Re:Simple

[Opportunist]

Besides, anyone here who can honestly say he never did the "magic" thing, i.e. delete a line and retype it only to have it suddenly work for no good reason whatsoever?

I dare say that most programmers would simply delete the offending line and retype it once everything that does actually make sense has been tried.

Black magic. Do it. I get the candles, Fred brings the voodoo doll, you can start chanting.