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I had a colleague once who set the salutation for the welcome email to the product to "Yo motherfuckers".

Basically as a way to guarantee that a copyeditor would rewrite it before it went to users and it wouldn't have copy written by developers.

An early beta user got an email calling him a motherfucker. Fortunately, he was good humoured about it.



Did he learn his lesson?

It's things like this, I never put immature things in my code comments or sample texts if it's going to be even remotely connected to a professional setting. In fact, I even do so when it's not. I just have to read back my own code comments from when I was 17, to see that shit isn't actually funny :) :)

(obvious exceptions will be made if I have a really good joke, though. sacrifices for art, etc)




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