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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. google seems to inspire... by Beuno · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. 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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  2. Dark corners? by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed!

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    1. Re:Dark corners? by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Not suprising, about half the responces on the first page were about how bad IE (Internet Explorer) fucks things up!

      " but IE6's implementation fucks up the..."
      " // check for function objects (as usual, IE is fucked up)"

    2. Re:Dark corners? by TheViffer · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Indeed, Indeed, Indeed

      Just better not SCO know about this ..

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

      Beware of evil code!

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  3. Dark corners? by FlyByPC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "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.

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  4. 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 pchan- · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Oh, we can do much better. Here are some favorites:

      "guy who wrote this" "in case some idiot" "ugly hack" "rewrite this later" "hail mary" "this shouldn't work" "compiler happy" "what the fuck" "blows goats"

      And I really love this one: i=i++

  5. Old-school by FlyByPC · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Zork nostalgia, anyone?

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

    Ten pages of righteous anger

  7. Fucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It also inspired Number of fucks per programming language and license.

  8. 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?)

  9. 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 . . .

  10. 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

  11. Favorite by springbox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is my favorite from the article: The phrase "should be big enough" should never be seen alongside statically allocated arrays.

  12. 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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  13. You are not expected... by slushdork · · Score: 4, Interesting
    My favorite: You are not expected to understand this

    See here for an explanation (from the horse's mouth, as it were...)

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

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