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Comment by cpncrunch | Hacker News Reader

Yes, using the word "fuck" for this just strikes me as a bit immature.

If it was called the fix it never would have made it to page 1

Would make me more likely to recommend it as a serious tool to a colleague though. But then again I'm a curmudgeon.

I get the impression that it's more of a joke than a serious tool. It is actually quite funny, but I can't imagine anyone using it seriously.

Also if anyone really cares, they could just fork it and make the change.

And then update it whenever the upstream changes. And keep track of all any new references which need to be modified. And publish a package if you still want it to be installed easily. And so on.

American prudishness. There's nothing immature in swearing in and of itself.

I'm not an American, and I'm not prude. I use quite a few swearwords regularly. However this just strikes me as an immature thing to do.

> swearing

Most actual instances of the actual word "fuck" aren't even swears.

> American prudishness

Sounds like you need a review of: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Or perhaps just some common decency ? If you want a tool / platform to take off, using the word 'fuck' is not the way to go.

Which part of the guidelines? I reread the entire thing and didn't find where it would apply.

I too read those guidelines in their entirety and there is nothing there at all about the poignant use of so-called "swear words."

Also:

http://thefuckingweather.com/

http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/

etc.

Swear words don't break the HN guidelines. When we ask for civility we have in mind how people treat one another online. Swear words can be used to treat others badly, but they have plenty of other uses.

It's not a trivial question, though, and people aren't wrong to disagree. Cultural differences make for very different views here. In some (sub-)cultures swear words are uncivil and in others they are innocuous. There's no model that satisfies all these norms, so inevitably we have to disappoint some.

As a consequence of the above, we don't bowdlerize titles either.

"When I first opened Tropic of Cancer and saw that it was full of unprintable words, my immediate reaction was a refusal to be impressed."

The whole thing is something of a joke, and the name is just part of that. I don't think it's meant to be taken very seriously to begin with.

You must not really be a programmer ;)

Late night, vision is starting to blur and you've typed `git push origin master` incorrectly dozens of times already...

    $ FUCK!!!111ksjdkjsd

I know a guy that does all his "printf debugging" using variations of printf("penis\n"). As a bonus, its a good incentive to remember to get rid of the printfs when you are done :)

I do that too, I think twice before typing 'touch penis' to create dummy files in my bash scripts though.

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