That's a tough one. I wouldn't for my business blogs, but my business readers are mostly corporate types. I'm slipping a "damn" or a "hell" in every now and th

That's a tough one. I wouldn't for my business blogs, but my business readers are mostly corporate types. I'm slipping a "damn" or a "hell" in every now and then, but that's about all. For HN, I'm moving much more towards using "fuck" and the rest. The crowd is 20-something, and they still think if you say fuck every other word that you must be saying something worthwhile. So no, I think he did it right. But I were just writing for my HN buds, I wouldn't be so cute.