Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References 182
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.
*snicker* (Score:5, Funny)
Meaningful Comments (Score:5, Funny)
"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"
Satan I can understand ... (Score:4, Funny)
Satan I can understand (BSD Devil, references to the Beast from Redmond, Chipzilla, etc), but Britney Speares? That's EVIL!
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:1, Funny)
Satan, Britney Spears (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:5, Funny)
I predict that.. (Score:4, Funny)
end sarcasm
Hee! (Score:3, Funny)
...too obscure? [wikipedia.org]
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:5, Funny)
if ($this eq "madness")
{
$this = "sparta!!!! >(";
}
Re:Hee! (Score:2, Funny)
for(EVER){
}
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:5, Funny)
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>
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:fist-hand (Score:2, Funny)
That's even more vile than I thought.
Re:*snicker* (Score:3, Funny)
Re:*snicker* (Score:4, Funny)
because "nobody expects the spanish inqusition!"
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Re:in code, or in comments? (Score:5, Funny)
Perform Beat-my-wife Until She-Screams.
Sadly, I never got to work on any of his code before it was cleaned up.
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The real question is [OT, obviously]: (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Amusing anagrams (Score:1, Funny)
What?
Re:*snicker* (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Meaningful Comments (Score:5, Funny)
I rather like this one that I saw [debian.org] at the weekend. Sounds like an unpleasant way to go.
Re:*snicker* (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:3, Funny)
You'd think they could have included some sample search links in the article, no? Searching for "fuck" in Linux code turns up more entertaining stuff if I recall correctly. Actually, seaching for "fuck" in Krugle is more entertaining than Satan:
"Fuck GNOME!"
"public class FuckNut"
"for (int i = 0; i n; i++) fuck(); "
Isn't that the same list as.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:5, Funny)
Binks variable... (Score:5, Funny)
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...)
Re:Am I missing something here? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Intuitive connections (Score:3, Funny)
Back in the day, wrote a method called ReturnOfTheJedi() which had a parameter called theJediWhereTrick. Returned a search result, but with an optional where clause in the SQL query.
Kept fielding emails about that for six months straight, from the company's offices in Palo Alto and Singapore. Fun times.