"Why all this 27 lines, when all you need is 11 characters?"
Not trying to defend the other errors in that piece of code (especially the sloppy boolean/conditional operator usage) but I'm pretty sure that function was meant to check more that simply just "omega is null" even if that remains undocumented - implying that the "11 character" solution would have been at least equally bugged as the original and the righteous indignation is unwarranted.
"Skip the second pint at lunch and implement it, ta."
BLASPHEMY! BURN THE HERETIC! By all means, fix that timing - but lunchtime is sacrosanct and off limits. If it cannot be fixed during work hours, then by Jove, unfixed it shall bloody well stay!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
