Ask HN: Do you swear in your code?

Re:Ask HN: Do you swear in your code? by axod on Monday June 16, 2008 @02:11PM (#218889)

My last job was in a corporate cubedom for 4 years. Not a massive company, but a few 100s of employees. We held weekly code reviews at one point. Also bosses do have a habit of suddenly believing that if they help code the project might run quicker, so they ask for svn access etc, then break everything :)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you swear in your code? by edw519 on Monday June 16, 2008 @02:14PM (#218899)

So you have worked in a corporate environment. My mistake.

But tell me, when did you ever have to fill out a "comment request form" in triplicate?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you swear in your code? by axod on Monday June 16, 2008 @02:59PM (#218966)

Now I can't work out if you're being sarcastic or not.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you swear in your code? by edw519 on Monday June 16, 2008 @03:37PM (#219018)

Touche.

I've worked in many corporate environments, some where things were perfectly logical and others that aspired to be as good as Dilbert.

But I never had to fill out anything in triplicate. I guess I should have realized the sarcastic flag was up. Sorry.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you swear in your code? by axod on Monday June 16, 2008 @04:22PM (#219077)

We had so much Sarbanes-Oxley bs anything seemed possible. "Oh you can't use an IM client that isn't approved by us, as it's against S-OX". (Approved by us meant that they paid some inferior crappy IM company to install their client on all company computers. Then they paid a fee per user) Nothing like corporate waste :)

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