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Wow this is from a different era. I haven’t heard developers speak that candidly or passionately since my coworkers and I had to deal with writing CSS for IE6.
by IgorPartola 6y ago
Wow this is from a different era. I haven’t heard developers speak that candidly or passionately since my coworkers and I had to deal with writing CSS for IE6.
- WalterGR 6y agoReally? I see it every day here on HN.
- boring_twenties 6y agoBack in the 90's I had a Linux kernel panic with the message "fucking Sun blows me," with no further explanation. As in, this was actually printed to the console.
- EvanAnderson 6y agoLooks like that was in the UFS driver: http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Kernel_Cookies/page-5.html http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Kernel_Cookies/page-5.html
- laurent92 6y agoIt also means they had no version control, therefore no fear of being caught. Probably programmed in Windows folders ;) Nowadays each dev will find your name for 10 years. By the way, does the GDPR require blanking the names of ex-employees in the Git history???
- d110af5ccf 6y ago> does the GDPR require blanking the names of ex-employees in the Git history I very much doubt the GDPR overrides the irrevocable license to redistribute (GPL in this case) that each developer is granting through the act of publishing their code. My understanding is that it regulates all the unpublished, ostensibly private information that the companies you do business with collect about you. Put another way, wouldn't it be a bit ridiculous if the author of a book demanded that their name be removed from the work years after publishing it? What are libraries supposed to do, dig out all their copies and scribble over the name?