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by ben_pfaff 3723 days ago
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.
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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.