[microtonal]

You must not have been in science or you'd have encountered the 200K LOC program, written in five programming languages (two of them obscure), which can only be compiled on the author's computer. Oh, and add 50K of C code from ancient versions of other projects (which could've been used as libraries) for undocumented reasons.

Though, I have also had colleagues who were also brilliant programmers.

[danieltillett]

This describes almost every published application I have ever tried to get running. It ends up being impossible to get the application working on anything other than the authors workstation.