The Mad YouTube Engineer
Fun, Oops, YouTube June 14th, 2007 - By Haochi
Flash developer Chad Upton noticed something unusual about the debugging comments in YouTube’s video player when watching a video on YouTube. While 99% of the debugging comments are “typical”, he said, a few irritating ones got caught by his sharp eyes.
- we got meta f*ck yeah!
- showing the goddamn play button
I guess whoever wrote this probably didn’t get a piece of that $1.65 billion when Google acquired YouTube. Or maybe he was just tired, or sick of programming, or … Too much possibilities.
What you think?
[via InsideGoogle]
June 14th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I think: Let the developers have some fun! It can be frustrating at times so I can totally understand a debug message like “we got meta fuck yeah!”. As long as there are debug messages like this anyone can be sure that the software is still written by humans ;)
June 14th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
LOL, couldn’t agree more. But it’s really embarrassing nonetheless. :)
June 15th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
As Haochi said, it’s “embarrassing” and all I was trying to do was communicate that to my team members so they don’t do the same thing on our projects, where our clients might notice and give me shit.
As I said on my blog, I thought the trace statements were hilarious, but I made the post because they were a good example of what I don’t want my team to do.
Keep up the mad engineering you guys!