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Not sure how I feel about the swearing on the page.
by instakill 14y ago
Not sure how I feel about the swearing on the page.
- RaphiePS 14y agoWhy does it matter?
- shantanubala 14y agoThere are some work environments where using "shit" and "fuck" would be a turn-off -- not all places are very relaxed about that stuff. On a more personal note, it feels immature -- titling a section "Oh shit what" just for the sake of irony dilutes the meaning of what they're conveying. The info would be equally effective without it, and it's just filler. I know people just want to have fun, but why not save the swearing for personal blog posts rather than a large (and growing) open source project?
- blowski 14y agoI agree, it's gratuitous. Anyone with a swear filter (families, corporates) can't look at the documentation, and religious organisations may feel uncomfortable. Being open source, perhaps there's a fork opportunity for 'Bootstrap without the swearing'.
- SquareWheel 14y agoSounds juvenile. If I wasn't familiar with Bootstrap it'd certainly cause me pause.
- instakill 14y agoBecause it's gratuitous and unprofessional.
- stuaxo 14y agoIt's kind of lame - sure it was cool to swear when I was a teenager, but here it's pointless. If I'm reading a webcomic or some subreddit then fine.
- michaelkscott 14y agoIt's a huge turnoff.
- nemesisj 14y agoFor me, it's not so much that the profanity is offensive or anything - I have what many might consider to be a fairly dirty mouth. It's that their usage of profanity is lame. They're trying to be cool and funny, and it's very much neither of these. If they could actually managed the be humorous with profanity, then maybe I wouldn't mind it so much but this blog post really reeks of someone who is desperately trying to be funny and yet miserably fails.
- snaky 14y agoExactly how I felt about it. Like it was written by an old sad salesman with a pasted smile.
- rwl4 14y agoAnd it's quite gratuitous too. Take for example: Modals are all responsive and ____ now. How random.
- likeclockwork 14y agoIt's just a word.
- human_error 14y agoYes but it's unprofessional way to use it to describe context in this case. He's not talking with a friend. He's making an announcement.
- ehutch79 14y agoMaybe he thinks of you as a friend?
- fudged71 14y agoI agree. If it were a discussion that would totally fit, but it's an announcement so it feels strange be to "talked to" in that sort of abstract and casual tone. Although maybe it's just a cultural thing.
- digitalengineer 14y agoIf 'shit' and 'clusterfuck' makes you feel uncomfortable, don't visit NY. You'll have a terrible time.
- sakopov 14y agoIt's not about the language used, it's about the context. He's not expressing anger or making a humorous statement. He's just throwing f-bombs around to show that he's your "brah." I don't quite understand it, but every time i read something by @fat, i feel like i'm reading a YouTube comment from a 10-year-old.
- phoobahr 14y agosooo... Counter(re.findall(r"[^a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z]+)[^a-zA-Z]",requests.get("http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/02/07/bootstrap-2-3-released/ http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/02/07/bootstrap-2-3-releas...).content.lower())) I see one occurrence of 'shit'. I'm not sure how I feel about your pansy ass semi-outrage of someone else's release page language. Oh, wait. I feel nothing, approximately what this entire conversation thread is worth.
- blowski 14y agoCtrl + F shows two. Time to update your regex-fu, or use simpler tools.
- lengads 14y agore.findall() returns all non-overlapping matches. We need to use a positive lookahead on the third part of the pattern to stop it from consuming the non-character: re.findall(r"[^a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z]+)(?=[^a-zA-Z])", ..)
- instakill 14y agoIf my comment seemed like a semi-outrage then you sir/madam are a very sensitive person.
- mjohn 14y agoLove the use of Counter & requests, but you get 76 li elements with your regex - one of which contains another occurance.
- ralmeida 14y agoI too feel a little put off by this. I find it immature and gratuitious, like others have said in this thread. This made me recall that in the examples they have HTML comments reading "le javascript" and "le CSS" if I recall correctly. I have a personal pet peeve with people using 'Internet slang' outside _humor_ places on the Internet (some people I know overuse it to the point of annoyance), and so the discomfort I feel reading these terms sneaks up to my impressions of Bootstrap and its authors. Of course, rationally I know it's a good product made by outstanding people, so I still use it without refrain, though.
- jameswyse 14y agoIt's like they're celebrating their release from 'Twitter' brand.
- lmm 14y agoI liked the casual tone. It read like the sort of thing you'd actually say when explaining the framework, and required less mental effort to interpret than program documentation usually does.
- ChikkaChiChi 14y agoIf this is all you have to complain about, maybe its time you tried something new in your life instead of criticizing others on how they conduct theirs.