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Yes, using the word "fuck" for this just strikes me as a bit immature.
by cpncrunch 12y ago
Yes, using the word "fuck" for this just strikes me as a bit immature.
- jay-saint 12y agoIf it was called the fix it never would have made it to page 1
- eli 12y agoWould make me more likely to recommend it as a serious tool to a colleague though. But then again I'm a curmudgeon.
- cpncrunch 12y agoI get the impression that it's more of a joke than a serious tool. It is actually quite funny, but I can't imagine anyone using it seriously.
- spo8 12y agoAlso if anyone really cares, they could just fork it and make the change.
- michaelmior 12y agoAnd then update it whenever the upstream changes. And keep track of all any new references which need to be modified. And publish a package if you still want it to be installed easily. And so on.
- icebraining 12y agoAmerican prudishness. There's nothing immature in swearing in and of itself.
- cpncrunch 12y agoI'm not an American, and I'm not prude. I use quite a few swearwords regularly. However this just strikes me as an immature thing to do.
- smorrow 12y ago> swearing Most actual instances of the actual word "fuck" aren't even swears.
- urda 12y ago> American prudishness Sounds like you need a review of: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Or perhaps just some common decency ? If you want a tool / platform to take off, using the word 'fuck' is not the way to go.
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- Frozenlock 12y agoWhich part of the guidelines? I reread the entire thing and didn't find where it would apply.
- lectrick 12y agoI too read those guidelines in their entirety and there is nothing there at all about the poignant use of so-called "swear words." Also: http://thefuckingweather.com/ http://thefuckingweather.com/ http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/ http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/ etc.
- dang 12y agoSwear words don't break the HN guidelines. When we ask for civility we have in mind how people treat one another online. Swear words can be used to treat others badly, but they have plenty of other uses. It's not a trivial question, though, and people aren't wrong to disagree. Cultural differences make for very different views here. In some (sub-)cultures swear words are uncivil and in others they are innocuous. There's no model that satisfies all these norms, so inevitably we have to disappoint some. As a consequence of the above, we don't bowdlerize titles either.
- charlesism 12y ago"When I first opened Tropic of Cancer and saw that it was full of unprintable words, my immediate reaction was a refusal to be impressed."
- tcdent 12y agoYou must not really be a programmer ;) Late night, vision is starting to blur and you've typed `git push origin master` incorrectly dozens of times already... $ FUCK!!!111ksjdkjsd
- ufo 12y agoI know a guy that does all his "printf debugging" using variations of printf("penis\n"). As a bonus, its a good incentive to remember to get rid of the printfs when you are done :)
- leni536 12y agoI do that too, I think twice before typing 'touch penis' to create dummy files in my bash scripts though.
- mikeash 12y agoThe whole thing is something of a joke, and the name is just part of that. I don't think it's meant to be taken very seriously to begin with.