Remove this in production

https://github.com/search?q=%22remove+this+in+production%22&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93

by jthnews • 10 years ago

60 39 10 years ago

The vast majority of GitHub projects are not in production. I'm surprised there aren't more hits, although it is an awfully specific search query.

MuEta• 10 years ago

I just got another 4k odd hits with "remove in production" [1]. I think that with enough variation, you can get a lot of hits.

1: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+in+prod...

nabaraz• 10 years ago

Search with quotes looks for exact match. Searching without quotes [1] yields 3 million results.

[1] https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=remove+before+pro...

rvalue• 10 years ago

This is interesting :)

dpflan9• 10 years ago

More intriguing, entertaining, and humorous phrases! I'm sure many of have thought, seen, or typed such things (perhaps not committed though).

Let's max out this concept.

1. "Fire me": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Fire+me%22&typ...

2. "This will break": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22This+will+brea...

3. "Never do this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22never+do+this%...

4. "This is evil": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+evil%2...

5. "This is insane": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+is+insane...

6. "Insanity will follow": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22insanity+will+...

7. "Why?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why%3F%22&type...

8. "For the love of god": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22for+the+love+o...

9. "If I could do": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22if+i+could+do%... (the hopeful ones)

10. "What the hell am I doing?" : https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22what+the+hell+... (the confused ones)

11. "Why doesn't this work?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+doesn%27t+... (more confusion)

12. "Call me": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me%22&typ...

13. "Call me maybe": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22call+me+maybe%...

14. "Terrible idea": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22terrible+idea%...

15. "This code is awful": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22this+code+is+a...

nostrademons2• 10 years ago

Two of my favorites from Google code I used to work on (one that I wrote myself, and one that I ended up reviewing) were:

"I am going to hell for this."

"If this is not removed by xx-xx-2008, beat me over the head with a shovel." (Seen and removed in 2010.)

dpflan9• 10 years ago

Heh, those are two rarer phrases:

1. "I am going to hell for this": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+going+to+...

2. "Beat me over the head with a shovel": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22beat+me+over+t...

Was an image of a shovel emailed to the committer? :)

Zikes• 10 years ago

"abandon all hope": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22abandon+all+ho...

auntienomen• 10 years ago

I once encountered the following helpful comment in some (dys)functional code, next to a particularly inscrutable car crash of lambdas:

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

7,463 code results for 'fhtagn'. Probably best not to look.

xlm1717• 10 years ago

You should have milked it for all it's worth and submitted separate posts for all these links!

dpflan9• 10 years ago

"Let's not do that": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Let%27s+not+do... :)

Though it's definitely fun when things like this emerge and people share stories.

shade• 10 years ago

My personal favorite that I've used on occasion: "I am a horrible monster and I pray for death".

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22i+am+a+horribl...

phaed• 10 years ago

"Why does this work?": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+does+this+...

cthulhujr• 10 years ago

Thar be dragons: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22thar+be+dragon...

dpflan9• 10 years ago

We've got another one: "No idea" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399852

rcarmo• 10 years ago

The strangest hit for me was this bit of C#:

            this.IsEvil = isEvil;
            screen.Souls.Add(new Soul(screen, new Vector2(position.X+texture.Width/2-Global.Textures["soul"].Width/2, position.Y), this.IsEvil));

dpflan9• 10 years ago

That indeed looks like some dark magic.

szatkus• 10 years ago

"hold my beer"

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22hold+my+beer%2...

ryanmaynard• 10 years ago

Scraped all from the page. http://gitoops.xyz/

rbobby• 10 years ago

I wonder why some of the exact matches are not highlighted in yellow?

sp332• 10 years ago

It seems to depend on the highlighting rules for different languages.

tathougies• 10 years ago

They're mostly demos, as expected. Is anyone surprised?

dpflan9• 10 years ago

Nope. Such comments are interesting to see the shared experiences and thoughts while writing code, and others are for snickering at the irony, especially when it's not a demo.

rvdm• 10 years ago

While vastly entertaining ( personal fav is "Call Me Maybe" ) does this create a moral obligation to audit some of these repos that might be in prod and alert the owners of possible security flaws?

artmageddon• 10 years ago

How will you know what's in prod? How do you know what's a security flaw and what isn't?

dpflan9• 10 years ago

We could check used lyrics for sure...then who owns the code?

Oops I did it again: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22oops+i+did+it+...

asah• 10 years ago

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+this+fr...

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22remove+from+pr...

Karunamon• 10 years ago

A great one for finding potential buffer overflow shenanigans:

"Should be big enough" https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22should+be+big+enough%22...

kuratowsky• 10 years ago

haha funny :D

mysticllama• 10 years ago

"ugly but works" has many thousands of results!

https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=%22ugly+but+works%22&type=...

rhinoceraptor• 10 years ago

These are my favorite Github queries:

filename:id_rsa: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aid_rsa

filename:secring.gpg: https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=filename%3Asecring.gpg

extension:.pem BEGIN https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=extension%3A.pem+BEGIN

dpflan9• 10 years ago

A nice, quick security audit.

mchahn• 10 years ago

Is anyone else getting tired of these github search posts? It would be nice if they were all in just one post. Actually the comment threads on this post are all that are needed.

dpflan9• 10 years ago

Yup, tried to get a critical mass going here because, well, there are so many phrases that could be posted individually. I think we've proven that interesting phrases exist in code on Github, and now let's let people discover that on their own and free up space for other types of submissions. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399790)

smegel• 10 years ago

A lot of them were ".example" which is OK.

And others said "WILL remove this in production" - i.e. basically a TODO in code which is quite normal for code in development.

Pitchforks down.

jexe• 10 years ago

Some personal favorites:

proprietary and confidential: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22proprietary+an...

do not distribute: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22do+not+distrib...

collyw• 10 years ago

Is anyone going to do a search for usernames and passwords?

ethomson• 10 years ago

My favorite: "In 2038 I will be either too dead or too rich to care about this"

https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/7adca53ed65380266309...

zhiqiangf• 10 years ago

careless developers

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