Geeks and covert insults

[Tyler Aviss]

A co-worker passed this one by me. It's a bit dated, but while it is
initially somewhat amusing, it seems that an "infantile prank" can
quickly degrade into a rather serious discussion, and then back into a
rather infantile discussion about whether it's appropriate to issue an
essentially out-of-phase update for removal.

Looking at this, it makes me again think about what types of things we
leave as our "legacy" online. In the day and age of blogging, logging,
and archiving, do we really want to limit our professional reputations
by having one of our legacies be a piece of code asking somebody to,
as paraphrased by Leif be "consuming buckets
of phalli"

Certainly not the type of thing I'd want my future (or current)
employer to find when looking up code I'd committed, or things I'd
posted in a forum/newsgroup/etc
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454


Anyhow. Just an item for thought and discussion.

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Tyler Aviss
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