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While I'm not 100% against humor in a codebase, ever since my company started hiring more engineers internationally, I've become more tuned in to whether a name
by richardxia 7y ago
While I'm not 100% against humor in a codebase, ever since my company started hiring more engineers internationally, I've become more tuned in to whether a name that uses slang like "yoinker" will be understood by someone who doesn't know English as a first language.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoThat is a fair point.
- sundvor 7y agoI've been using English as my first language for nearly 20 years and am unfamiliar with "yoinker". Just googled it and, ... nah, I wouldn't approve that PR! (Have never heard it used down here in Australia. We've got plenty of other sayings that are local to us though.)
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoHehe, I never googled yoinker until just now. I originally heard it on The Simpsons. Here's a SFW Simpsons supercut of "yoink": https://youtu.be/CJh1hmmLLzw https://youtu.be/CJh1hmmLLzw I suspect there are a lot of words that used to be safe that are less so now :P