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Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oopsie dept.

saccade.com writes, "The new Google Code Search isn't just for hackers sniffing for passwords. Jason Kottke and friends have discovered the new feature reveals all sorts of dark corners hidden in our code. And you thought nobody ever read your comments!" From the article: "Code search is a great resource for web developers and programmers, but like the making available of all previously unsearched bodies of information, it's given lots of flashlights to people interested in exploring dark corners."

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  1. And the Ever Popular... by gambit3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Windows Sucks"

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    1. Re:And the Ever Popular... by Karloskar · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Soviet Russia...
      I, for one, welcome our new xxxxxxxx overlords

    2. Re:And the Ever Popular... by Werkhaus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Whilst we're on the subject of /. memes...

    3. Re:And the Ever Popular... by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not to forget Black Magic, Deep Magic and the ever popular Dead Chicken waving.

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  2. Bloody Microsoft by RyatNrrd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ten pages of righteous anger

  3. This should never happen... by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a fairly amusing one.

    I like the memset search on that page too... scary. People need to run Lint or something. (Will Lint pick up that error?)

  4. I had to do it... by kypper · · Score: 3, Funny

    All your base :-D

  5. Re:google seems to inspire... by Kangburra · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think their success comes from the simple interface, that despite varied functions retains sufficient uniformity to facilitate usefulness.

    Jeez, I must have swallowed a dictionary!

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  6. For the record by achurch · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was not drunk when I wrote this; that's just some immature coder making fun of me.

    Granted, being drunk is about the only valid excuse I could make for only initializing half of a doubly-linked list node . . .

  7. Suicidal code... by chillieburger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who said programming was easy? http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22kill+m e+now%22

  8. I wonder.. by technos · · Score: 4, Funny

    How long before SCO files a third amended counterbrief to IBM's second interrogary motion for relief claiming new evidence of infringement after one of their marketing boys tries 'Linux Santa Cruz Operation' after reading about Google Code in the WSJ?

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  9. ??? Profit! by slavelayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Read Slashdot
    2. Search Google Code
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

  10. Re:Dark corners? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Beware of evil code!

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