YouTube Leaves In Embarrassing Debug Comments
Chad Upton discovered some comments left in YouTube’s Flash video player that don’t exactly come off as professional. They include:
- we got meta fuck yeah!
- showing the goddamn play button
The connection just got tea bagged - reset and reloadFuck bandwidth detection script its taking too long or not working so fuck it hardFlash is affecting badly the performance of the ****.com websiteThis feature does not work and crashes the player fix laterzHACK HACK HACK HACK HACK this scuks
Probably just something Chad Hurley and Steve Chen left in there many months ago, when only three guys were using YouTube (although there are indications in the comments that it may have only been added recently), but it doesn’t look so good when dragged out for display in the town square. Chad explains the real stupidity:
When you publish your Flash Application for production, you should “omit trace actions” in the publish settings. That way, debug statements will be excluded entirely and you won’t be forcing the end user to download your shitty debug statements that they don’t need and will probably never see.
Yeah, you’re supposed to strip that stuff out. It saves money on bandwidth, avoids posts like this one, and is just good coding practice. I’d never make a mistake like that.
* - don’t 4get to buy cream for that itch we don’t talk about
(via Digg)
UPDATE: Apparently only the first two lines are actually in the YouTube code, the others are past examples. Chad’s post was worded in a way that I didn’t notice the distinction.
Hey didn’t you force me to download some commented-out php in the html on this very page?
It’s funny, but I wouldn’t get too crazy about bagging somebody about some comments you have to decompile a file to read. It looks like they’re getting by OK.
Comment by Don | June 14, 2007
From the way Chad words it, it seems as if only the first two comments were in the YouTube player code. He says, “These are some example debug statements I have lifted from real code that should not have been there:” That implies the rest are from other code he has come across in other places.
Comment by Dylan Bennett | June 14, 2007
Only the first two lines are from the YouTube player, apparently.
http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/99110.html
Comment by Philipp Lenssen | June 14, 2007
I don’t have billion dollar bandwidth bills. I am nowhere near my bandwidth cap. Meanwhile, Google supposedly saves a good amount of money with every character they remove from their homepage code, so you’d think they’d make an effort.
Plus, the real point is the comments are embarrassing. My comments don’t include
* - don’t forget to poop
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