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What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by rapind »

gomox wrote: post #46

The best part of this is that it is concrete evidence of Google Search result quality decay. The screenshot of the search in the article shows a result from a Blogspot blog called "Frankie's Joint". If you do today the exact same search that the OP does on his screenshot, that result does not show up. ALL the results I get are either a reference to this Hacker News post, or computer generated pages. A short 2 pages w…

Google gave up on search though right? Like, I assume they’ve just abandoned it, maybe as recently as 2 or 3 years ago. Can anyone prove that they haven’t?

Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by derefr »

bmm6o wrote: post #8

If it ended up in the binary it probably wasn't a comment, in the true sense. Was that the name of the mutex?

> If it ended up in the binary it probably wasn't a comment, in the true sense.

In some languages, rather than comments being a special syntactic thing, you just write a string-literal expression as its own statement.

Before dead code elimination was a thing, I imagine these string-literals would end up in the binary.

Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by Izkata »

mrpopo wrote: post #42
thawaya3113 wrote: post #37

5 people have posted about this very thing over the past 14 years and this will be searchable for decades going forward, either through Google or the way back machine, or possibly through a publicly funded way back machine like alternative. Meanwhile the odds that your tweet or FB post will be searchable and archivable anywhere close to that is extremely low. The open Internet is so much better. I hope we start movin…

Also interesting that this is this person's only blog post ever, and dating from 2017.

Well, take a look at the blog's URL...

Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by [deleted] »

gomox wrote: post #46

The best part of this is that it is concrete evidence of Google Search result quality decay. The screenshot of the search in the article shows a result from a Blogspot blog called "Frankie's Joint". If you do today the exact same search that the OP does on his screenshot, that result does not show up. ALL the results I get are either a reference to this Hacker News post, or computer generated pages. A short 2 pages w…

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Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by teschty »

gomox wrote: post #46

The best part of this is that it is concrete evidence of Google Search result quality decay. The screenshot of the search in the article shows a result from a Blogspot blog called "Frankie's Joint". If you do today the exact same search that the OP does on his screenshot, that result does not show up. ALL the results I get are either a reference to this Hacker News post, or computer generated pages. A short 2 pages w…

I'm curious if they explicitly excluded their blog from Google search results, they don't seem to have the highest opinion of Google from various posts.

Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by smabie »

sprior wrote: post #35
not2b wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It gets worse. A very long time ago a was working for a startup that was doing real-time speech compression, for telephony applications, using a DSP, with the compression/decompression implemented in assembly language. The code had two processes, an analysis process and a synthesis process. My colleague named the entry point to the synthesis process synth_entry, and he named the entry point to the analysis process an…

I think programmers get used to the idea that some names for things are never meant to be spoken and don't ever say them in their head to see what they'd sound like.

Reminds me of a variable name at my last job, fagg. Stood for like frequency aggregator or something..

Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by [deleted] »

gomox wrote: post #46

The best part of this is that it is concrete evidence of Google Search result quality decay. The screenshot of the search in the article shows a result from a Blogspot blog called "Frankie's Joint". If you do today the exact same search that the OP does on his screenshot, that result does not show up. ALL the results I get are either a reference to this Hacker News post, or computer generated pages. A short 2 pages w…

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Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by schoen »

derefr wrote: post #52
bmm6o wrote: post #8

If it ended up in the binary it probably wasn't a comment, in the true sense. Was that the name of the mutex?

> If it ended up in the binary it probably wasn't a comment, in the true sense. In some languages, rather than comments being a special syntactic thing, you just write a string-literal expression as its own statement. Before dead code elimination was a thing, I imagine these string-literals would end up in the binary.

I just checked, and this method is still syntactically valid (though not recommended style) in...

C

Javascript (Node)

Python

Perl

Ruby

Rust

The strings did end up in my Python 2.7 .pyc bytecode, though not in my C or Rust binaries.

My intuition was that this would work in most of these languages, but not all. For example, I thought Rust would probably complain about a value being unused.

There's no such thing in general as an expression as a complete command in shell scripting, but there is a silly way to write comments as

: comment

instead of the normal

# comment

where : is a shell builtin equivalent of the "true" program, and anything otherwise syntactically valid on the line after it will be treated as command-line arguments to that builtin.

Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by lights0123 »

cossatot wrote: post #44
not2b wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It gets worse. A very long time ago a was working for a startup that was doing real-time speech compression, for telephony applications, using a DSP, with the compression/decompression implemented in assembly language. The code had two processes, an analysis process and a synthesis process. My colleague named the entry point to the synthesis process synth_entry, and he named the entry point to the analysis process an…

Matlab and SciPy both have ‘cumtrapz’ for trapezoidal integration.

Although SciPy retains an alias for compatibility, the preferred name has changed: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/12924

Re: What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)

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Post by [deleted] »

javert wrote: post #19
cronix wrote: post #18

Probably about the same odds as a company co-opting the common parlance such as "meta."

We don't have to let them steal a word from the English language, that belongs to all of us. We don't have to let them cause confusion. Just don't call it the name they want you to call it.

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