> http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4111/dirty_coding_tricks.php
>
> I especially like the last one.

I like the second one too.

I think in any industry where you have complex projects that need to be 
finished by a deadline there will always be less-than-optimal hacks to get 
it "finished".  Usually if you had more time there would be a number of 
things you could do better.

We had a similar situation with an LCD for a car whereby we needed to make 
the red colour more "red" near the end of the project, it would have take a 
huge amount of time and money to make a new mask set for the actual panel, 
so we just put a few red LEDs in the backlight...  To this day if you buy a 
certain model of car you will get an LCD with white and *red* LEDs in the 
backlight to make up for the poor glass performance, I doubt anyone else has 
that curious design :-)

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