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Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners
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."
Google seems to inspire this kind of behaviour for some reason. The have been lots of websites like krugle who search a big db of code, and these things didn't come up until google launched this.
Indeed!
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"it's given lots of flashlights to people interested in exploring dark corners."
They say sunshine is the best disinfectant. More eyeballs can fix problems as well as exploit them.
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
So that's where I left that rant about the inherent inferiority of asian people, and my treatise on how someday the aardvaarks will be the dominant form of life on earth (after they eat the asians).
... and then they built the supercollider.
"Windows Sucks"
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Zork nostalgia, anyone?
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
Ten pages of righteous anger
Why didn't I keep on programming?
It also inspired Number of fucks per programming language and license.
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?)
All your base :-D
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 . . .
Instead potential employers (like me) can google your code and read those comments that you wrote in there. Don't worry though... I won't hold those against you.
Anyway, "unless you really know what you're doing" and "smoking cracK" are also fun searchesa over there...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Who said programming was easy? http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22kill+m e+now%22
This is my favorite from the article: The phrase "should be big enough" should never be seen alongside statically allocated arrays.
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?
.sig: Now legally binding!
See here for an explanation (from the horse's mouth, as it were...)
1. Read Slashdot
2. Search Google Code
3. ???
4. Profit!
That and PHP is used for a lot of bulletin boards, forums, etc - the majority of those "fuck" counts would be on swearlist fliters hardcoded in.
I have to say, the search for incorrect use of C's memset really cracked me up. One instance after another of code which doesn't do a thing!
These could be of special interest malloc(strlen(\w+));
and these new char[strlen(\w+)];
"python sucks": Results 1 - 10 of about 20. (0.02 seconds)
"perl sucks": Results 1 - 10 of about 32,900. (0.01 seconds)
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
...it should be hard to understand.
Goto in C isn't necessarily evil... I've used it quite a lot of times to break from nested loops (like a "break", but a double/triple/... break, which doesn't exist in C but exists in Java for example).
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
You incult clod, if the GP said it it was because the GGP's sig is a reference to a painting of an apple that says "Ceci n'est pas une pomme" ("This is not an apple") because it's not an apple but really a painting. The GP was pointing that the GGP's sig was actually a signature although it claimed not to be one, and thus that it didn't fit the spirit of the painting it was refering to, and that it would have been more like the spirit of it if instead of having it to be an actual sig, it was something he pasted at the end of every of his posts to make it look like a sig. It would look like a sig, but it wouldn't be one.
You just got troll'd!
This is not sad, it's scary!
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I think you mean Magritte's "The Treason of Images" which has a label reading "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" under a picture of a tobacco pipe. Not sure where the apple came from...
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Just think - currently most large employers google an employee as well as checking the major social networking sites, to determine if there's something about the person they don't want. Now an employer could use google code search to measure an applicant's code writing ability/discression.
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