Re:Ask HN: Do you swear in your code?
by tptacek on Monday June 16, 2008 @11:26AM
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Fuck yes it is.
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Addenda: is this perhaps the dumbest fucking question to be asked on this board? Fuckin' A right it is. Can someone draw a line between this topic and something that actually matters to a startup?
if it doesn't matter, why reply?
You might ask yourself the same.
I replied to you because I was curious what you'd say. I am interested in human psychology.
And you have confirmed how easy it is to bait me into snarky responses. Congratulations!
Why are you getting snarky? I was perfectly serious. I think it's best to ignore silly things. Most people seem to give them a lot of attention. That's important. I want to know why they do that.
Possibly related, many people I know find it easier to think of things to say in reply to stuff that's mistaken than in reply to stuff that's accurate. So they spend more time engaging with mistakes than thinking about the good ideas they encounter. That's important too.