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Re: Who wrote this shit?

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Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.

The rules in our house are, the only bad words, are words used to hurt other people. Having said that, cussing is a rite of passage in our house. We all cuss like sailors.

I think that's actually a great rule of thumb.

Re: Who wrote this shit?

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Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.

I recommend you no longer recommend content aggregation websites to people who you want to see only certain content.

Exactly always prefer search over feeds

Edit: To add more to this, feeds train our brain to consume content which we don't even need. Search on other hand is inherently required when we are working on something cool.

Re: Who wrote this shit?

#23

Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to create an extension that replaces these words with somethingm that would be good for kids.

Re: Who wrote this shit?

#24

I find it a refreshing experience to look at your own code from 10 years ago, or even 5 and think "Who wrote this shit?". If I ever look at some of my old code and feel good about it, that means I have failed to improve.

Could have meant that you've reached the approximate upper bound of excellence in that particular piece of code.

There are objective good code that are timeless, implementations that does not need another look or left few/no space to improve.

Granted, it's a lot harder to do at larger scale.

Re: Who wrote this shit?

#25

Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.

Isn't there a minimum age requirement to be on HN? I mean I don't see anything obvious.

That said, we're all adults here, mostly liberal leaning, and we all grew up with the internet; a bit of potty mouth won't hurt anyone. I mean you can take the moral high ground and consider anyone using swear words as immature and move on, I guess.

Re: Who wrote this shit?

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I find it a refreshing experience to look at your own code from 10 years ago, or even 5 and think "Who wrote this shit?". If I ever look at some of my old code and feel good about it, that means I have failed to improve.

Could have meant that you've reached the approximate upper bound of excellence in that particular piece of code. There are objective good code that are timeless, implementations that does not need another look or left few/no space to improve. Granted, it's a lot harder to do at larger scale.

I suppose I have a long ways to go still :)

Re: Who wrote this shit?

#28

I find it a refreshing experience to look at your own code from 10 years ago, or even 5 and think "Who wrote this shit?". If I ever look at some of my old code and feel good about it, that means I have failed to improve.

Bonus points if you first ask yourself "who wrote this shit?", then open blame, then see your own name.

Re: Who wrote this shit?

#30

Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to create an extension that replaces these words with somethingm that would be good for kids.

It's not as easy as you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem =)
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