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Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References
An anonymous reader writes "Krugle, a software search company, had some time on its hands — it compared frequency of mentions in open source code of presidential candidates, Beelzebub and yes, Britney Spears." I wish they'd link to a nice long list of the other terms this revealed — there are probably a lot of subtler funny references and asides.
A friend of mine got a call a few days ago from an old job of his doing some Access application development (*pukes*). Apparently they didn't appreciate the fact that the code was littered with references to the Spanish Inquisition, Spam, Grail Shaped Beacons, and so on.
My Favorite comment came from the DEC PDP-11 Fortran compiler. After searching extensively for a bug in our code, we managed to get the compiler source, and at the location where our code imploded, the compiler author had inserted the comment,
"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"
Satan I can understand (BSD Devil, references to the Beast from Redmond, Chipzilla, etc), but Britney Speares? That's EVIL!
Kevin Smith on Prince
That class will show its privates to just about anyone who asks!
Monstar L
Those are just synonyms, right?
The problem is that the class has to use its inheritance to get what it wants.
Abaddon: An Xbox 360 Indie game
Tipper Gore and the Parents Software Resource Center are going to petition congress to ban open source software because the source code is explicit. The end result will be a warning label on all open source software available on the internet.
end sarcasm
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Often, such things come from frustration or from humor starvation. One time, in a programming competition during college, we were required to do our work in Visual Studio. We implemented a sort routine and knew not to call it sort(), so we called it mysort(), which also turned out to be taken by MS. Out of frustration with the clock counting down, I gave it a name that I knew would not have any conflicts: myfuckingsort().
I figured I was in the clear, because the competition administrators and judges had told us that they do not read the code, they just run the program and check for correct output. However, they did quietly talk to us after we received our prize for winning the competition. Apparently, while they don't read the code as part of the competition, they do skim it out of curiosity sometimes.
For the remainder of my C.S. career, I was notorious for having invented the by-then-shortened "fucksort" routine. It still comes up in conversation from time to time.
$this = "madness";
if ($this eq "madness")
{
$this = "sparta!!!! >(";
}
which is totally what she said
I once wanted to name an module in some fortran code 'data', but, of course, that's a protected word, so I called it 'brentSpiner' instead. I don't think my supervisor watched star trek though, so he didn't really get the joke.
</boring nostalgic story>
FGD 135
honestly though... I'm a big fan of "//Magic happens here"
I will not give in to the terrorists. I will not become fearful.
Britney Spears - Prissy bra teen
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Well, I didn't see this first-hand, but I heard that one of my cow-orkers wrote some interesting COBOL code during his divorce. He had this line of code:
Perform Beat-my-wife Until She-Screams.
Sadly, I never got to work on any of his code before it was cleaned up.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Only problem with that is that it saves the text in a green-on-black grainy medium. The producers only adjective to describe the tape is "hawt."
Satan wasn't born in the USA and is thus ineligible.
It's the place I store all my jarjars.
(Ooo, thats going to cost me! Don't you just love the smell of karma burning in the morning...)