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alistairSH06/16/20251 replyview on HN

TIL: Politeness makes one soulless.

I don't personally care if a swear word appears in code, but I do care if I offend others with my use of swear words. So, I try to limit their use to circumstances where offense is unlikely. Work is rarely such a place, particularly with shared resources like code. I might swear in a 1-on-1 conversation at work, but I definitely don't drop swear words into documents that unknown people might see. That's just basic professionalism.


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ctde06/16/2025

the point being that there was a time (some greybeards might remember) where contributing to the linux kernel wasn't "work" but a fun hobby

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