Humor
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When your coding for a client or coding for a project, do you generally use humor in your comments?
Something to brighten you up when you review the code or swamp over it to debug it.
Personnaly, I dont.
Something to brighten you up when you review the code or swamp over it to debug it.
Personnaly, I dont.
- daedalus__
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no, but I used to (back when I started) echo REALLY random things upon errors during debug and forget to take them out, so customers would ask me
"How come my application told me that sharks were coming and to run away?"
That was actually very funny to me, but the customer... not so much.
EDIT: The best part was that it was by far the dumbest client I've ever dealt with, so when it told her that, I have a good feeling she looked over her shoulders and contemplating running.
"How come my application told me that sharks were coming and to run away?"
That was actually very funny to me, but the customer... not so much.
EDIT: The best part was that it was by far the dumbest client I've ever dealt with, so when it told her that, I have a good feeling she looked over her shoulders and contemplating running.
Last edited by Luke on Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:23 am, edited 1 time in total.
- RobertGonzalez
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Dude, I use comedic comments AND content when testing. This recently got me into the soup when I mocked up a first draft for my daughters swim team site and I left all the talk about how terrible the rest of the league was and how we were going to absolutely annihilate every other team in the leage. Many members of the league board and the team management did not find that nearly as funny as I did.
But hey, what good are you if you can't take a joke, eh?
But hey, what good are you if you can't take a joke, eh?
I used to put swearing into my code, especially in the error handler I used for debugging.
This was all fine and dandy until one day another programmer copy/pasted everything from a working test script into a production script, (company intranet, approx. 1500 users), and made a small change and didn't test it first. The change caused an Array Subscript Out of Range error, and on the screens of 1500 users, including the CEO and the CIO, up pops my famous debugging message...
Needless to say, I don't do it any more.
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MsgBox ("F*ck it. Something's gone badly wrong on line " & erl() & ": " & err() & ": " & error$)
...Needless to say, I don't do it any more.
Actual error message I added to Blacknova Traders:

I have a mild sense of humor, as you can see.Its entirely possible that aliens attacked the server housing the database at the same time the FBI's carnivore system was ripping emails about bin laden off of images hidden on the server while the illuminati read your mind gaining the knowledge of when
- MrPotatoes
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when in school and made my first 2D game you should have seen it. i made all my own sounds, content and everything. i guess the 36 hours staying up constantly didn't help but man it was funny. i don't think one person in that class wasn't on the floor bawling in lafterEverah wrote:Dude, I use comedic comments AND content when testing. This recently got me into the soup when I mocked up a first draft for my daughters swim team site and I left all the talk about how terrible the rest of the league was and how we were going to absolutely annihilate every other team in the leage. Many members of the league board and the team management did not find that nearly as funny as I did.
But hey, what good are you if you can't take a joke, eh?
otherwise yes, i curse and all kinds of stuff in the comments. i also echo out the bad words because they are faster to find when you are debuging
- RobertGonzalez
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I've done that before, but it is usually late and I'm tired. When that happens, and I see things like "The little code stealling error bastard just walked off with my logic" pop out, I usually start laughing my guts outs, which usually wakes up the wife and garners some snears.MrPotatoes wrote:otherwise yes, i curse and all kinds of stuff in the comments. i also echo out the bad words because they are faster to find when you are debuging
You have quite a gift...Roja wrote:Actual error message I added to Blacknova Traders:
I have a mild sense of humor, as you can see.Its entirely possible that aliens attacked the server housing the database at the same time the FBI's carnivore system was ripping emails about bin laden off of images hidden on the server while the illuminati read your mind gaining the knowledge of when![]()