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by jmbwell 2947 days ago
"Boolean butch; // don't call pete drag handlers in PantyTrack"

Always assume that one day, the world will see your code.

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My third boss wanted to open source some code. I got the pleasure of witnessing our hackiest developer’s eyes go wide when he mentioned this idea.

Maybe you should stop writing code that you’re embarrassed to let other people see. Your coworkers will thank you.

From the release post from CHM themselves [0]:

> The source code we are distributing is what we received from Qualcomm, with only the following changes:

> * addition of the CHM copyright notice and the BSD license

> * sanitization of “bad words”, mostly in comments, as requested by Qualcomm

[0]: http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-emai...