[BitwiseFool]

I forget where this was posted, but there was a multiline comment along the lines of

  "DO NOT ATTEMPT TO OPTIMIZE OR REFACTOR THIS CODE. 
  When you ignore this warning and fail, increment this tally mark: IIII"

[isp]

http://bash.org/?947444

    //
    // Dear maintainer:
    //
    // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
    // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
    // please increment the following counter as a warning
    // to the next guy:
    //
    // total_hours_wasted_here = 25
    //

[mPReDiToR]

Do we know what the current tally is?

Is the code still in use?

[cmeacham98]

Likely from this SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/482129