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Are chatty/humorous comments in source code acceptable or unprofessional? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Humor in Documentation Throughout my professional career, I have often relied on chatty or humorous comments in source code (or source control commit messages) to help ...
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What to do with bad source code? [duplicate]

I have been contracted to modify an application for a software company and the source code is quite frankly, a mess. It's not commented much and the author is inconsistent with coding conventions. The ...
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Why do programmers use one-based indexing for line numbers in source code? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why isn't the line count in Visual Studio zero-based? Why isn't the top line in a source code file labelled line number 0? i.e. in a source file which was 10 ...
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Should my source code be in UTF-8?

I feel that often you don't really choose what format your code is in. I mean most of my tools in the past have decided for me. Or I haven't really even thought about it. I was using TextPad on ...