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Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really
- pavel_lishin 14y agoTo be fair, 0xDEADBEEF may be considered offensive to hindus.
- cskau 14y agoAnd let's not forget Java's 0xCAFEBABE or any of the others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
- jrockway 14y agoHow about some 0xC0FFEE?
- pavel_lishin 14y agoNot for Mormons.
- jrockway 14y agoYou win. How about 0x12345678 :)
- jgeorge 14y agoI had a coworker once lament the use of 0xDEADBEEF because he was a vegetarian. I'm bothered by what lowest common non-offensive denominator we will eventually have to reach. Is 0xCAFEBABE not only offensive to women but is it also offensive to male Starbucks employees? I don't have the answers. I don't even think I know what the questions are. I just weep for society as a whole over stuff like this.
- meric 14y agoUse both 0xCAFED00D and 0xCAFEBABE at the same time might alleviate some of those concerns.
- benwerd 14y agoThat's a horrible way to talk about Steve Ballmer.
- benwerd 14y agoThanks for the upvotes, but I now really regret this comment. Juvenile stuff.
- mun2mun 14y agoIt was discussed in reddit a week ago http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wi4bf/inappropriate_microsoft_linux_kernel_contribution/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wi4bf/inappropriate_m... .
- Sumaso 14y agoLooks like another slow news day...
- fein 14y agoWasn't this already resolved?? https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/13/203 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/13/203
- revelation 14y agoThe point of this is to make sure you recognize a number as the magic number it is when you see it scrolling by in a debugger. Preprocessor directives have this problem where they don't survive the preprocessor stage. Its not just a meaningless joke, it has an actual raison d'être. Of course there might be less offending choices, but this hardly ranks among the top of the problems that plague open source development (communities).
- guard-of-terra 14y ago"Puerile sniggering at breasts contributes to the continuing impression that software development is a boys club where girls aren't welcome" This is a primary building block of such articles. But in fact magic numbers are kind of art: good art shocks you a little - or a lot; more for people who are less free. Who gets offended by big boobs? People who think they are religious, as if Jesus had anything against boobs; people who think boobs are strategic weapons that should be controlled; people who are afraid of any life because life is non-professional; people who try to close their eyes on the existence of two genders; and some women that are insecure. I feel sorry for the latter because I don't want any woman in the world to feel insecure. But for all other people, it's like they had this demon inside and we're exorcising and it tries to escape the host body by ripping its way outside. It's a good thing. Maybe they'll become less religious and more spiritual; maybe they'll become less restrictive; maybe they'll become less "professional" and more skilled; maybe they'll be forced to acknowledge woman and man. I don't think it helps insecure girls, I even think it might actually harm them, but is this the reason to harm art? It never was. Who is responsible for insecure people? It's society. Who should be punished for that? Not artists, mind you.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI guess people should read less xkcd and more http://wumocomicstrip.com/ http://wumocomicstrip.com/ To not only get smarter but also crawl outside of their bubble.
- wtracy 14y ago"but is this the reason to harm art?" No. But it's a damn good reason to keep your so-called "art" out of the workplace. Keep your "art" in the galleries where it belongs.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoWhy would we? Because you tell us so? Guess what - you fit the profile; "people who are afraid of any life because life is non-professional". Making you feel uncomfortable might cure you one day, we're be trying like Hippocrates supposed us to. Galleries are the places where art dies. If you'll consult art history, you'll not see much straight-to-gallery art. It had some purpose. It was built into lives. Modern art should be on streets, it should be embedded into city (or code). In fact, in any city there's a lot of accidental art. Something random but just too good.
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- TheShadowFog 14y agoWow. This is a pretty dumb article. This is worse then some of the shit on reddit.
- wtracy 14y agoI'm left wondering now what on earth those engineers were thinking. Did they really not understand that this was going into an open source project? Or did the Microsofties somehow think this would work as an elaborate way of discrediting the Linux project?
- guard-of-terra 14y agoIt is fully how people now are forced to acknowledge lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual coders, but they fail to grind to acknowledge big boobs in the code. Hint: if you have coders with gender, you get code with gender.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoUntil it is proven that the coder who put that in was, in fact, a male it is highly sexist to just assume that it was a man and that ladies are not capable of being childish or being into big boobs as well. ;)
- voidr 14y agoSo writing 'big boobs' in hexspeak makes you sexist.... I have a problem understanding this. Whom should this offend? How does this offend anyone? How is it sexist when it didn't even specify the which sex's boob it is referring to? If I name something 'curly_blond_hair' in my code, is that sexist?
- voidr 14y agoMeanwhile in Coupling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_N020ZVbmc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_N020ZVbmc&feature=relat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks2MCslf0F4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks2MCslf0F4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkU8PAVXo98&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkU8PAVXo98&feature=relat...
- pktm 14y agoThis is hardly the worst thing I've ever seen in source code - mine or others'. Heck, I had a developer once send me something where the "placeholder" image was a dog turd. Surely this can't be worth all the oh-noes.