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Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!

Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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My favorite part is

> If you add some obscure code such as below, to this or any other app, even if it has only the teeniest chance of being less blindingly obvious to someone else than it is to you at the time of writing, please please please add a fing comment.

This rings as true now as it did then and its my favorite comment so far out of this whole leak. I've reached a point where my comments are there to remind myself why I did a thing, because more often than not I'm the poor bastard who's stuck fixing what past me did, and past me was either a sadistic asshole or a blithering idiot.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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post #5

Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!

Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.

It means physical beauty, like an attractive appearance.
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