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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 baisq »

ivanche wrote: post #92
nunez wrote: post #61

This brought me back to college and me learning about steganography. I wonder how many images are floating around with secret messages in them! Also reminds me of people who immortalized themselves by putting their initials or a favorite phrase in the header of a file format that got popular (like Mike did at Microsoft for .exe's; every exe header starts with MZ, which is really friggin cool) Or the "Don't Steal MacO…

Somewhere I’ve heard that you could replace MZ with ZM and exe will continue to work. Never tried it though.

I just tried it and it does not work, at least on Windows 10.

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

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Post by KineticLensman »

loxias wrote: post #34
javajosh wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta is to Facebook what Alphabet is to Google. I don't think we have to worry.

Agree. Though, in my outsider perception Alphabet == Google + a bunch of failed stuff + self driving cars. Whereas Meta == Facebook + an absurd $$$$$ attempt to convince the public wearing headsets is revolutionary + forget about that whole destroying society thing. At least the self driving cars might have positive net impact. ;-)

> Alphabet == Google + a bunch of failed stuff + self driving cars.

And YouTube

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

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Post by zokier »

pjc50 wrote: post #96
self_awareness wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it had to solve some original problem (while maybe introducing others). Otherwise it wouldn't be used? From user's POV, I've always preferred IS installers than Wise, but I haven't created any packages even once. I was always just the "next-next-finish"-type of user ;)

It made you a standard executable Windows installer. Inexplicably there wasn't a decent first-party Microsoft solution to this until the Microsoft Store era. There wasn't really effective competition, probably because it's hard to get people to pay for developer tools and it's a hard problem to do well.

Umm.. MSI has been a thing since Windows 2000, and WiX (and native support in VS) for creating those.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

iamwil wrote: post #64
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 was whiteboarding with a fellow (girl) student in college. We were sketching out a client/server architecture, and I abbreviated server as "srvr". When it came to the client, I thought I should also make it four letters, so I wrote "clit". I stood back and looked at it. After a couple seconds pause, it dawned on my brain that was probably a terrible shortening. I wordlessly erased my gaffe, and just wrote out the 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 bencollier49 »

not2b wrote: post #20
sprior wrote: post #7

Back when I was in high school and programming on the original IBM PCs I wrote a program that would graph "solids of rotation" (a function rotated around the X axis). Well I chose the obvious name based on the 8.3 filename limitations. One day someone looked over my shoulder and said "you named your program solid rot???" Oops.

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…

The people who made Docker didn't account for the full range of British double entendres when it came to naming images. I can't remember what the second word was, but I'm pretty sure the first was something along the lines of "excited" and it appeared in a tech brown bag session when I was presenting.

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

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Post by KineticLensman »

butwhywhyoh wrote: post #62
xthrowawayxx wrote: post #3

Can someone explain the significance of this like I'm 5?

When someone tells you a funny story in person do you respond with this question too?

If a funny story goes 'whoosh' over my head I would might, if I was bothered, say something like "I'm probably just being dense, but I don't get that".

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

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

baisq wrote: post #101
ivanche wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somewhere I’ve heard that you could replace MZ with ZM and exe will continue to work. Never tried it though.

I just tried it and it does not work, at least on Windows 10.

I just tried it under DOSBox, and it works.

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

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Post by Kuinox »

bsaul wrote: post #84
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…

From an historian POV, those closed-data communication platforms are going to end up as a black hole. So much of our life has happened through them, and yet will be invisible to historian. It's really a problem.

Hopefully the Internet Archive save twitter tweets streams, and other closed source platforms.
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