> If anyone thinks less of you because you simply know five swearwords, it's pretty much their problem.

That's your position. When i'm hiring, there is simply no way i would bring someone on board who didn't know at least ten.

if they don't constantly swear at their machine are they really a programmer?

I can't find it now, but there was a post on HN where someone shared a report regarding their social media activity. It was compiled by a firm that offers to "research" potential employees.

If I remember correctly, it included a twitter account that was not obviously linked to the persons name.

There was an entry for every (re-)tweet that contained swearing, associated with a negative score.

Also, if you're swearing on public platforms, you almost never know if/how the platform itself may react. Maybe it affects the likelyhood of your contribution(s) being shown to others.

I don't doubt that this happens, but I think so much less of someone that would go into my Twitter and assign a negative ranking to each swearword in an effort to compile a metric of "me", that I wouldn't want to do business with them.

In that regard, adding more motherfucking swearwords in my bullshit comments serves as a great fucking way to deter any asshole cunt that thinks such metrics are a good goddamn idea. Dick pussy ass.

Haha, that's funny, though at times it feels like they're just adding the word "fucking" to phrases.

An interesting part of my kids playing CSGO is that they can now swear in at least 3 languages. I don't think you can play for more than a couple of days before you learn to swear in Russian (cyka blyat), it's practically synonymous with the game, a couple of weeks and you should know a Polish (kurwa) and a French swear (putain/merde).

And of course "fuck[ing]" and "shit" are used prolifically.

Nah, not that. "in search of words containing fuck" — just not a very mature thing to do.

FUCK is still my default “Find>Replace>Find>Replace” placeholder. Need to shift a wad of spreadsheet cells laden with formulas but don’t want to risk anything?

Find All “=“ Replace with “FUCK” Copy/Move Find All “FUCK” Replace with “=“

Also handy for updating words or names when word processing.

The choice dates back to my first computer - I remember replacing all spaces “ “ with “FUCK” and watching gloriously as the assignment I had written was slowly turned into curse word gibberish.

I tell myself I still do it because (especially capitalised) it does stand out as an error in a way other placeholders may not. But it’s mostly for the fun and cheap thrill - pretty sure only one client ever got a document that I had left fucked up in this way.

[Edit to add: Nothing pseudonymous about my account name, but I’ll fucking own it.]

You mean you don't have it mapped to 'sudo $previous_line'?

On the contrary, that's how science is made.