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by Krssst 677 days ago
> Because every word and every combination of hexadecimal characters is "potentially offensive"

No they are not. There are plenty of harmless combinations, like 0x1235679a or other with English words like 0xcafebad0.

Offensive was a bit of a strong word here, I was mostly paraphrasing the dictionary. However in male-dominated field, using an objectifying word targeting 50% of the world population is definitely in poor taste.

Most important of all, it looks unprofessional. It don't think it would look professional for HR to put jokes in our salary sheets, and I think the same applies to company code.

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Krssst wrote: > No they are not. There are plenty of harmless combinations, like 0x1235679a or > other with English words like 0xcafebad0.

and 0xcafed00d?