Comment by dpflan | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dpflan | Hacker News Reader

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More intriguing, entertaining, and humorous phrases! I'm sure many of have thought, seen, or typed such things (perhaps not committed though).

Let's max out this concept.

1. "Fire me": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Fire+me%22&typ...

2. "This will break": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22This+will+brea...

3. "Never do this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22never+do+this%...

4. "This is evil": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+evil%2...

5. "This is insane": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+insane...

6. "Insanity will follow": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22insanity+will+...

7. "Why?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why%3F%22&type...

8. "For the love of god": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22for+the+love+o...

9. "If I could do": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22if+i+could+do%... (the hopeful ones)

10. "What the hell am I doing?" : https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22what+the+hell+... (the confused ones)

11. "Why doesn't this work?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+doesn%27t+... (more confusion)

12. "Call me": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me%22&typ...

13. "Call me maybe": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me+maybe%...

14. "Terrible idea": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22terrible+idea%...

15. "This code is awful": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+code+is+a...

Two of my favorites from Google code I used to work on (one that I wrote myself, and one that I ended up reviewing) were:

"I am going to hell for this."

"If this is not removed by xx-xx-2008, beat me over the head with a shovel." (Seen and removed in 2010.)

Heh, those are two rarer phrases:

1. "I am going to hell for this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+going+to+...

2. "Beat me over the head with a shovel": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22beat+me+over+t...

Was an image of a shovel emailed to the committer? :)

"Why does this work?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+does+this+...

My personal favorite that I've used on occasion: "I am a horrible monster and I pray for death".

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+a+horribl...

"abandon all hope": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22abandon+all+ho...

I once encountered the following helpful comment in some (dys)functional code, next to a particularly inscrutable car crash of lambdas:

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

7,463 code results for 'fhtagn'. Probably best not to look.

The strangest hit for me was this bit of C#:

            this.IsEvil = isEvil;
            screen.Souls.Add(new Soul(screen, new Vector2(position.X+texture.Width/2-Global.Textures["soul"].Width/2, position.Y), this.IsEvil));

That indeed looks like some dark magic.

Thar be dragons: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22thar+be+dragon...

"hold my beer"

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22hold+my+beer%2...

Scraped all from the page. http://gitoops.xyz/

You should have milked it for all it's worth and submitted separate posts for all these links!

"Let's not do that": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Let%27s+not+do... :)

Though it's definitely fun when things like this emerge and people share stories.

We've got another one: "No idea" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399852

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