Things to commit just before leaving your job

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dekken_• 3 years ago

initial commit is 2013

Too obvious and easy to clean up. Depending on how things were when you left, a passive aggressive commit message with whatever work you had left uncommitted is easiest.

jl6• 3 years ago

Things to commit just before leaving your job if you don’t intend on working in a position of trust again.

Handprint4469• 3 years ago

  // This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
  // and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
  // I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.

  // In case it's not clear: I am not suggesting you *actually* do this!

ttyprintk3• 3 years ago

Obviously, C and C++ have characteristics driving people to desperately try Twitter pro-tips. To stuff something like this under the door, I believe your PR better mention Jenkins.

pschastain3• 3 years ago

*whoosh*

lifthrasiir• 3 years ago

    // In case it's not clear: I am not suggesting you *actually* do this!

A more practical but still dubious takeaway would be that you can safely `#define private public` and `#define protected public` to work around the visibility and you still get a syntactically correct C++ code. Of course, you are doomed if ABIs start to depend on the visibility...

ttyprintk3• 3 years ago

Lots of unit tests start that way. Maybe when you have a minute, see how your compiler handles a zero-width character at the end of private?

lynx23• 3 years ago

Glorifying vandalism like that feels very very immature. How did this end up here, and why was it upvoted?

samus• 3 years ago

    // In case it's not clear: I am not suggesting you *actually* do this!

ayhanfuat2• 3 years ago

It's a joke.

distcs2• 3 years ago

Still it is not clear why a silly joke needs to be on the front page of HN!

EasyMark• 3 years ago

I'm guessing the flags are from people who get mad at xkcd comics and drink percolator coffee as a preference.

okokwhatever• 3 years ago

Simple, it's funny and we should glorify more "potential" fun in this shitty world.

boffinAudio• 3 years ago

"Something evil to do to make yourself feel better about having been fired from a job for which you were probably un-qualified."

Semaphor• 3 years ago

158 comments in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10084570

Only 8 when originally posted just over 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6218920

jacknews• 3 years ago

I was expecting "fraud" or similar. Not too far off.

Things to commit just before leaving your job

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