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mpk on May 14, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things You Should Never Do, Part I

Given the state of the code when it was released, I can't really say I blame the developers for thinking 'screw this'.

Check out the comments they had to delete before releasing the code : http://www.jwz.org/doc/censorzilla.html .

DLWormwood on May 14, 2009 [–]

I find it a little disturbing that "hack" was one of the censor words, especially since it has a very specific meaning when appearing in source code (and many commenting tools even do special processing when it sees this word.)

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