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noworriesnate06/16/20252 repliesview on HN

Yeah I had a coworker who put salty MessageBox.Show debug messages in the code, and one day while demoing the software a pop up appeared that said “BITCH!!!”

Needless to say the customer was not amused. So the simple solution is just ban the bad words from the source code.


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mcgrath_sh06/16/2025

I wrote something similar in another comment. This is where I have seen curse words bite teams too. It is always the needless "joke" when debugging that surfaces. Just go boring. No one gets offended by "check 001."

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bee_rider06/16/2025

Swears are fine and good, slurs not so much.