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> This guys is totally free to make his points colourfully and passionately however he wants to.

I agree. He's created a very good and useful showcase of a specific frustration that many of us would prefer to never implement or deal with. For an exercise in venting, this style makes a lot of sense.

> His word choices are not hate speech or discriminatory so the fact that they may offend your sensibilities has precisely zero relevance to anything.

The language chosen to express his feelings means that I can't reference this site to anyone I work with in the enterprise world. For giving people materials in fighting against implementing these things, it collects a lot of great examples of why this is frustrating. Unfortunately, sharing it with the people who make these kinds of decisions has "career-limiting move" written all over it.

Maybe it will be (is?) licensed in a way that allows for business-friendly adaptation.

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That's interesting, I'd have no problem linking this to my boss or PM if they were trying to convince us to implement something that resembled a doorslam. I'd probably include some reference to the fact that the language is colorful in the email and suggest this is the kind of passion that the proposed doorslam will raise in our own customers.

I'm a brit living in the US so add that as a datapoint too!

It doesn't even register on my offensive scale... did we have this same hand-wringing over zed shaw's programming motherfucker website? I don't recall it if we did. http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html

Not really no - quite a few people questioning the validity of it, or it's place on HN, but only one person against the swearing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355427

On the contrary, most people really motherfucking joined in.

I do seem to remember a fair bit of hand-wringing over "heroku fucking console" though.

> It doesn't even register on my offensive scale

Does it have to? In my experience, taking into consideration how the message receiver might be offended is more important. I'm not personally offended by the language of the tumblr, but I still wouldn't bring it into a business setting because of how others may feel.

> did we have this same hand-wringing over zed shaw's programming motherfucker website?

To me, the target audience of this site is far different. Some of the same rules apply, but Zed Shaw's site is unlikely to be the basis of an argument for or against any sort of business-level decision. With that being said, I probably wouldn't point an aspiring programmer (or anyone) toward Zed's site unless I knew they were very casual with profanity.

If I can find a way to add Creative Commons tags to each image, would that help?

If not, please take this as permission to copy those images and make your own non-sweary version.

That'd be great! If it's possible to throw something on the footer of the page, that would also be useful to people who don't happen to find it through HN.

Nice work in collecting all of these. They make for a great showcase.

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