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by angersock 3988 days ago
In production code, I actually try not to be obscene lest somebody else come across it.

However, the pervasive wtf undercurrent here in the comments actually makes it colorful yet oddly not too distracting. I like it.

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I had an f-bomb in shipping source for over a year before I noticed it. (Was a chunk of code that had been object file only then we switch to shipping source.)

Somehow it even got through the lawyers' Bad Words filter.

I like the idea of a bad-words filter as a post-commit hook or something!
i only add obscene comments on my personal stuff -- but whenever i'm trying to debug a hard problem, i will add a logger.debug("is this f*ing code reachable?").

i just have to make really really sure i don't commit these kind of changes.