[lolc]

I tend to use slightly embarrassing terms for config options that enable workarounds. This motivates to deprecate these bugfeatures as soon as possible. Who would want to have 'fickle_timestamps' or 'fudged_routing'?

Interestingly I use a similar policy when selecting my passphrases. My passphrases are bad four-word poems about personal experiences. Thus I'm personally invested in protecting passphrases and keeping discipline even for "worthless" accounts. I wouldn't be comfortable about sharing even my old passphrases.

[cperciva]

Who would want to have 'fickle_timestamps' or 'fudged_routing'?

Not quite the same thing. What I have is more along the lines of work_around_BSD_make_bug, work_around_old_rhel_bug, work_around_docker_bug, and work_around_clang_bug.

[lolc]

I do like the policy of noisy workarounds. With workarounds for external flaws I tend to use neutral language though.

[cperciva]

Fair enough. I wouldn't go down this route with something like POSIX_ME_HARDER, because that's a matter of "my design decision is better than your design decision"; but I don't feel that there's any need to be neutral when it comes to things like compilers emitting incorrect code.

[ben_pfaff]

I like this naming philosophy too. I once named a feature "VLAN splinters" to discourage people from using it; after all, who likes splinters? Unfortunately, people did use it and I'm only now getting to the point where I think it can be removed. I suspect that naming is, in the end, not very effective, but it still feels good.

[grrowl]

I've taken to writing swears in personal project code comments or variable names instead of TODOs or hacky workarounds. It's easy to grep the codebase for them and I'm constantly just a little worried someone will pull me up on it.

[wiml]

Was it GNU df that had the POSIX_ME_HARDER configuration option to enable a particularly unwanted bit of POSIX-mandated functionality?

[cperciva]

Yes, but they changed it to POSIXLY_CORRECT.

[cpach]

This is one of my favourite Stallman anecdotes of all time :)