Timeline for Are first person comments distracting and unprofessional?
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| Nov 12, 2015 at 18:18 | comment | added | Fuhrmanator | How about first-person refactoring: OurFormIsNotResized = (WindowState <> 1) ... If OurFormIsNotResized Then ... | |
| Mar 18, 2013 at 16:10 | comment | added | jw013 | @konrad That's not even a Haiku. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 14:15 | comment | added | Donal Fellows | A truly professional comment (on the basis of some of the code I've seen written by people in this business) would involve the sexual proclivities and parentage of the previous maintainers of the code. Don't sweat little things like the tone of voice. | |
| Jul 18, 2011 at 12:07 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 15 characters in body |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 9:03 | comment | added | Homde | I do all my comments in form of Haikus: "Variable instantiated. What it does no one knows. I hate my job" ;) | |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 8:46 | answer | added | Surgical Coder | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 10, 2011 at 15:02 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | I would say it depends on whether you're writing the comment as you (the programmer) speaking or as if the code itself is speaking to the reader. :-) | |
| Jul 10, 2011 at 9:04 | answer | added | Steve Dunn | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 21:31 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by hayesgm | ||
| Jul 9, 2011 at 14:29 | answer | added | jaybee | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 13:40 | answer | added | Jan Fabry | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 9:22 | comment | added | Macke | "We are not amused..." ;) | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 7:44 | answer | added | user18254 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 7:09 | comment | added | poke | When I saw this on Twitter, I thought it was “Are ‘First’ comments distracting and unprofessional”. Shame on me for thinking one would actually ask that… | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 4:24 | comment | added | Michael Burr | It;s all I can do to make sure my comments don't haev goofy typos. Now I need to worry about whether or not passive voice should be used? Next I'll have to make sure I don't dangle any prepositions - I imagine that is something my colleagues may not put up with. And I suppose I won't be allowed to ever use a split infinitive. Sentence fragments? | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 2:45 | vote | accept | dlras2 | ||
| Jul 9, 2011 at 0:28 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/89490953324347392 | ||
| Jul 8, 2011 at 23:24 | answer | added | jkj | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 21:47 | comment | added | Federico klez Culloca | I've seen a tendency where I work to use impersonal forms in comments (in Italian) like /*Il form non è ridotto a icona, si può ridimensionarlo tranquillamente*/ that is /*The form is not minimized, it can be resized safely*/ . Usually also software's user interfaces are written in a impersonal form. | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 21:46 | answer | added | Thomas Owens♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 21:46 | answer | added | Bruce Ediger | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 21:43 | answer | added | user23157 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 21:27 | answer | added | Steven A. Lowe | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 20:49 | comment | added | DKnight | I think I'm going to start commenting all the bug fixes I work on in third person omniscient, should make me popular around the office..."Little did John know that his poorly crafted addition would always skip this code, leaving users perplexed by the perpetually empty display field..." | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 20:45 | answer | added | whatsisname | timeline score: 105 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 20:40 | comment | added | Jeremy | I like the 'we'. Its friendly and inclusive in a wholesome, folksy kind of way. | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 20:20 | answer | added | user8709 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 20:09 | history | edited | dlras2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Changed title. |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 20:05 | comment | added | DKnight | I didn't downvote you but I could guess that they didn't like the title question as answers to it could easily be short, chatty, and overly given to unbacked opinion. Rewording that to be more like your final question might help. | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 20:02 | answer | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 20:01 | answer | added | Tesserex | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 19:56 | answer | added | Stephen Bailey | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 19:56 | answer | added | J.K. | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 19:54 | comment | added | dlras2 | Comments for the downvote? This is my first Programmers.SE question, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what makes a good P.SE question vs. a good SO question. | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 19:45 | history | asked | dlras2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |