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I think there's a reason most humor websites have some sort of curation process.

Yep. The idea is potentially fun, though. They could surely make use of a curation process. Something like bash.org, maybe ?

So it just watches github's live feed for commit messages that contain a curse word.

Specifically, https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob...

I wished he removed some of those words though and I really want to believe that people don't use racist commit messages.

Interesting that he _almost_ starts out with George Carlins "seven dirty words" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Dirty_Words - but then continues with additional words that're unlikely to be indicative of anything particularly humorous or interesting.

This is _almost_ funny. But anybody who thinks you can make up jokes using SQL or regex probably isn't the sort of person you'd pay to see at a comedy club.

Unless, perhaps, they're a particularly talented computational linguist with a huge corpus of comedy material loaded up in a big real-time analysis cluster. Hmmmm, there's some ideas here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_humor - maybe this would be more amusing if the commit comments were passed into the "That's what she said" double entendre algorithm?

I use a little obscene language myself, but there's nothing cool or enlightening about it. Any site built around it is at best noisy, but more like puking all over the screen.

Well I'm glad to see that also other people have this sorts of messages in their commit history

Interesting to me too. While I'm not above putting the occasional gripe into a commit message, I don't think I've ever used profanity. I prefer commit log messages to be useful later, to myself if not others. So I try to avoid useless messages like "Fixing stuff" (with or without expletives).

I'm baffled by this admiration of commit messages that do nothing to explain the code committed.

Some of the stuff in there is pretty spectacular, like this qt-brainfuck: https://github.com/sea-kg/seakgChrysocyonParser/compare/0988...

Hmm, another triumph for the "Github will get you hired" crowd. And so soon after the "Github will get you kicked off Coursera" debacle.

Actually this is a good use case for DVCS - at least you have a second chance to clean up your commit messages when pushing from a private repo. It does have to be private though. I would be interested to see if BitBucket gets a boost in users this month...

So fuck and shit are the most common words used as I can see. Not what I expected.

I imagine this is just going through a stream of commits and only picking out the ones containing fuck and shit.

and hell

Before bashing, please notice the subheading: "because real hackers pivot two hours before their demo". This was Abe's pivot right before the deadline at the PennApps Hackathon.

Obviously this is on open source stuff, but I'd don't think it'd reflect positively with a prospective client or employer.

Not many swearing ladies.

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