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Remove this in production

60 points by jthnews 11y ago

nostrademons 11y ago
The vast majority of GitHub projects are not in production. I'm surprised there aren't more hits, although it is an awfully specific search query.
- MuEta 11y ago
  I just got another 4k odd hits with "remove in production" [1]. I think that with enough variation, you can get a lot of hits. 1: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+in+production%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+in+prod...
  - deleted 11y ago
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- nabaraz 11y ago
  Search with quotes looks for exact match. Searching without quotes [1] yields 3 million results. [1] - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=remove+before+production&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=remove+before+pro...
rvalue 11y ago
This is interesting :)
dpflan 11y ago
More intriguing, entertaining, and humorous phrases! I'm sure many of have thought, seen, or typed such things (perhaps not committed though). Let's max out this concept. 1. "Fire me": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Fire+me%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Fire+me%22&typ... 2. "This will break": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22This+will+break%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22This+will+brea... 3. "Never do this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22never+do+this%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22never+do+this%... 4. "This is evil": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+evil%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+evil%2... 5. "This is insane": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+insane%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+insane... 6. "Insanity will follow": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22insanity+will+follow%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22insanity+will+... 7. "Why?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why%3F%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why%3F%22&type... 8. "For the love of god": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22for+the+love+of+god%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22for+the+love+o... 9. "If I could do": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22if+i+could+do%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22if+i+could+do%... (the hopeful ones) 10. "What the hell am I doing?" : https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22what+the+hell+am+i+doing%3F%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22what+the+hell+... (the confused ones) 11. "Why doesn't this work?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+doesn%27t+this+work%3F%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+doesn%27t+... (more confusion) 12. "Call me": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me%22&typ... 13. "Call me maybe": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me+maybe%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me+maybe%... 14. "Terrible idea": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22terrible+idea%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22terrible+idea%... 15. "This code is awful": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+code+is+awful%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+code+is+a...
- nostrademons 11y ago
  Two of my favorites from Google code I used to work on (one that I wrote myself, and one that I ended up reviewing) were: "I am going to hell for this." "If this is not removed by xx-xx-2008, beat me over the head with a shovel." (Seen and removed in 2010.)
  - dpflan 11y ago
    Heh, those are two rarer phrases: 1. "I am going to hell for this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+going+to+hell+for+this%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+going+to+... 2. "Beat me over the head with a shovel": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22beat+me+over+the+head+with+a+shovel%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22beat+me+over+t... Was an image of a shovel emailed to the committer? :)
- Zikes 11y ago
  "abandon all hope": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22abandon+all+hope%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22abandon+all+ho...
  - auntienomen 11y ago
    I once encountered the following helpful comment in some (dys)functional code, next to a particularly inscrutable car crash of lambdas: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" 7,463 code results for 'fhtagn'. Probably best not to look.
- xlm1717 11y ago
  You should have milked it for all it's worth and submitted separate posts for all these links!
  - dpflan 11y ago
    "Let's not do that": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Let%27s+not+do+that%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Let%27s+not+do... :) Though it's definitely fun when things like this emerge and people share stories.
rbobby 11y ago
I wonder why some of the exact matches are not highlighted in yellow?
- npalmer 11y ago
  Iirc it's because they use elasticsearch and the analysers will strip out stop words like 'and'...
- sp332 11y ago
  It seems to depend on the highlighting rules for different languages.
tathougies 11y ago
They're mostly demos, as expected. Is anyone surprised?
- dpflan 11y ago
  Nope. Such comments are interesting to see the shared experiences and thoughts while writing code, and others are for snickering at the irony, especially when it's not a demo.
rvdm 11y ago
While vastly entertaining ( personal fav is "Call Me Maybe" ) does this create a moral obligation to audit some of these repos that might be in prod and alert the owners of possible security flaws?
- artmageddon 11y ago
  How will you know what's in prod? How do you know what's a security flaw and what isn't?
- dpflan 11y ago
  We could check used lyrics for sure...then who owns the code? Oops I did it again: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22oops+i+did+it+again%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22oops+i+did+it+...
asah 11y ago
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+this+from+production%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+this+fr... https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+from+production%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+from+pr...
Karunamon 11y ago
A great one for finding potential buffer overflow shenanigans: "Should be big enough" https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22should+be+big+enough%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22should+be+big+enough%22...
kuratowsky 11y ago
haha funny :D
mysticllama 11y ago
"ugly but works" has many thousands of results! https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22ugly+but+works%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22ugly+but+works%22&type=...
rhinoceraptor 11y ago
These are my favorite Github queries: filename:id_rsa: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aid_rsa https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aid_rsa filename:secring.gpg: https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=filename%3Asecring.gpg https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=filename%3Asecring.gpg extension:.pem BEGIN https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=extension%3A.pem+BEGIN https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=extension%3A.pem+BEGIN
- dpflan 11y ago
  A nice, quick security audit.
mchahn 11y ago
Is anyone else getting tired of these github search posts? It would be nice if they were all in just one post. Actually the comment threads on this post are all that are needed.
- dpflan 11y ago
  Yup, tried to get a critical mass going here because, well, there are so many phrases that could be posted individually. I think we've proven that interesting phrases exist in code on Github, and now let's let people discover that on their own and free up space for other types of submissions. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399790)
smegel 11y ago
A lot of them were ".example" which is OK. And others said "WILL remove this in production" - i.e. basically a TODO in code which is quite normal for code in development. Pitchforks down.
jexe 11y ago
Some personal favorites: proprietary and confidential: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22proprietary+and+confidential%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22proprietary+an... do not distribute: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22do+not+distribute%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22do+not+distrib...
collyw 11y ago
Is anyone going to do a search for usernames and passwords?
ethomson 11y ago
My favorite: "In 2038 I will be either too dead or too rich to care about this" https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/7adca53ed653802663096b8c2977a03dbe39c601/src/index.c#L2549 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/7adca53ed65380266309...
zhiqiangf 11y ago
careless developers

60 points by jthnews 11y ago

The vast majority of GitHub projects are not in production. I'm surprised there aren't more hits, although it is an awfully specific search query.

MuEta 11y ago
I just got another 4k odd hits with "remove in production" [1]. I think that with enough variation, you can get a lot of hits. 1: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+in+production%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+in+prod...
- deleted 11y ago
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nabaraz 11y ago
Search with quotes looks for exact match. Searching without quotes [1] yields 3 million results. [1] - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=remove+before+production&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=remove+before+pro...

rvalue 11y ago

This is interesting :)

dpflan 11y ago

More intriguing, entertaining, and humorous phrases! I'm sure many of have thought, seen, or typed such things (perhaps not committed though). Let's max out this concept. 1. "Fire me": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Fire+me%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Fire+me%22&typ... 2. "This will break": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22This+will+break%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22This+will+brea... 3. "Never do this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22never+do+this%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22never+do+this%... 4. "This is evil": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+evil%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+evil%2... 5. "This is insane": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+insane%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+insane... 6. "Insanity will follow": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22insanity+will+follow%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22insanity+will+... 7. "Why?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why%3F%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why%3F%22&type... 8. "For the love of god": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22for+the+love+of+god%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22for+the+love+o... 9. "If I could do": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22if+i+could+do%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22if+i+could+do%... (the hopeful ones) 10. "What the hell am I doing?" : https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22what+the+hell+am+i+doing%3F%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22what+the+hell+... (the confused ones) 11. "Why doesn't this work?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+doesn%27t+this+work%3F%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+doesn%27t+... (more confusion) 12. "Call me": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me%22&typ... 13. "Call me maybe": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me+maybe%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me+maybe%... 14. "Terrible idea": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22terrible+idea%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22terrible+idea%... 15. "This code is awful": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+code+is+awful%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+code+is+a...

nostrademons 11y ago
Two of my favorites from Google code I used to work on (one that I wrote myself, and one that I ended up reviewing) were: "I am going to hell for this." "If this is not removed by xx-xx-2008, beat me over the head with a shovel." (Seen and removed in 2010.)
- dpflan 11y ago
  Heh, those are two rarer phrases: 1. "I am going to hell for this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+going+to+hell+for+this%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+going+to+... 2. "Beat me over the head with a shovel": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22beat+me+over+the+head+with+a+shovel%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22beat+me+over+t... Was an image of a shovel emailed to the committer? :)
Zikes 11y ago
"abandon all hope": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22abandon+all+hope%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22abandon+all+ho...
- auntienomen 11y ago
  I once encountered the following helpful comment in some (dys)functional code, next to a particularly inscrutable car crash of lambdas: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" 7,463 code results for 'fhtagn'. Probably best not to look.
xlm1717 11y ago
You should have milked it for all it's worth and submitted separate posts for all these links!
- dpflan 11y ago
  "Let's not do that": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Let%27s+not+do+that%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Let%27s+not+do... :) Though it's definitely fun when things like this emerge and people share stories.

rbobby 11y ago

I wonder why some of the exact matches are not highlighted in yellow?

npalmer 11y ago
Iirc it's because they use elasticsearch and the analysers will strip out stop words like 'and'...
sp332 11y ago
It seems to depend on the highlighting rules for different languages.

tathougies 11y ago

They're mostly demos, as expected. Is anyone surprised?

dpflan 11y ago
Nope. Such comments are interesting to see the shared experiences and thoughts while writing code, and others are for snickering at the irony, especially when it's not a demo.

rvdm 11y ago

While vastly entertaining ( personal fav is "Call Me Maybe" ) does this create a moral obligation to audit some of these repos that might be in prod and alert the owners of possible security flaws?

artmageddon 11y ago
How will you know what's in prod? How do you know what's a security flaw and what isn't?
dpflan 11y ago
We could check used lyrics for sure...then who owns the code? Oops I did it again: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22oops+i+did+it+again%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22oops+i+did+it+...

asah 11y ago

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+this+from+production%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+this+fr... https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+from+production%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+from+pr...

Karunamon 11y ago

A great one for finding potential buffer overflow shenanigans: "Should be big enough" https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22should+be+big+enough%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22should+be+big+enough%22...

kuratowsky 11y ago

haha funny :D

mysticllama 11y ago

"ugly but works" has many thousands of results! https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22ugly+but+works%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22ugly+but+works%22&type=...

rhinoceraptor 11y ago

These are my favorite Github queries: filename:id_rsa: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aid_rsa https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aid_rsa filename:secring.gpg: https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=filename%3Asecring.gpg https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=filename%3Asecring.gpg extension:.pem BEGIN https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=extension%3A.pem+BEGIN https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=extension%3A.pem+BEGIN

dpflan 11y ago
A nice, quick security audit.

mchahn 11y ago

Is anyone else getting tired of these github search posts? It would be nice if they were all in just one post. Actually the comment threads on this post are all that are needed.

dpflan 11y ago
Yup, tried to get a critical mass going here because, well, there are so many phrases that could be posted individually. I think we've proven that interesting phrases exist in code on Github, and now let's let people discover that on their own and free up space for other types of submissions. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399790)

smegel 11y ago

A lot of them were ".example" which is OK. And others said "WILL remove this in production" - i.e. basically a TODO in code which is quite normal for code in development. Pitchforks down.

jexe 11y ago

Some personal favorites: proprietary and confidential: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22proprietary+and+confidential%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22proprietary+an... do not distribute: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22do+not+distribute%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22do+not+distrib...

collyw 11y ago

Is anyone going to do a search for usernames and passwords?

ethomson 11y ago

My favorite: "In 2038 I will be either too dead or too rich to care about this" https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/7adca53ed653802663096b8c2977a03dbe39c601/src/index.c#L2549 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/7adca53ed65380266309...

zhiqiangf 11y ago

careless developers