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by bsder
1076 days ago
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> "Why" is a really good way to put it, like you say - doing "What" just repeats something a novice, possibly even a layman, could distinguish. And "profanity" in code is almost by definition a "Why"-type comment. You don't get upset and leave a profane comment unless you did a deep dive and realized the code does something absurdly horrible that took you far too long to figure out. |
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This describes my profanity use in comments perfectly. I'll even increase the amount of profanity and "descriptive phrases" depending on the frustration level I peak at.
Fun fact: my profanity will always be formatted into proper, grammatically and contextually correct sentences. This seems counterintuitive.
I'm curious what kind of profanity other people use; whether anyone else has an oddly specific format or if it's more off the cuff. (fyi: edited to not be cussing on HN, there will be a 100% chance my first profanity will be :"f###ing bulls##t," this is usually enough. In more severe cases I'll generally add: "bloody h3ll," "raging dumpster fire," "dumbest s##t ever," "d#mnation! h#llfire!," and, when I've completely lost my s##t, "what in the actual f###ing s##t is this g##d##n f###ing bats##t f###ing insane s##tshow clusterf##k!"
It saves a lot of time down the road to know whether I got pissed, super pissed, pissed af, threw some random s##t, or "welp, it's 5 o'clock somewhere."