So which of these actually spell the color they represent (or something closely related)? From a quick glance, I have no found any. Do color-words like that exist in other languages maybe?
#A55E55 (asses) is brown. Oh... wait.
Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words
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#72in my last job we used to work #C0FFEE coloured elements into our UI as a little easter egg of sorts.
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#73This is the kind of quirky, brilliant link I crave from Hacker News. If I was near you creator, I would garland you and rub your feet.
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Let's keep having threads with 4 comments discussing the latest Haskell library borefest then. Threads like this have their place.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Without commenting on the reasonability of it, you may want to be aware that a growing population of vegetarian and female tech workers may find these offensive.
Beef dies in the wild too so DEADBEEF should not, I do not care if they want to use B16D1CC instead :) I can't see why CAFEBABE would be offensive though. ...And honestly I guess I don't care? If people are that mad about some levity then I probably do not want to work with them.
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#75This is the kind of quirky, brilliant link I crave from Hacker News. If I was near you creator, I would garland you and rub your feet.
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I personally find it uninteresting, but I don't think it decreases the value of HN or the quality of the community-- people will find novelty in different things. It also seems like the kind of content that the guidelines praise. I appreciate when people deep-dive into niche topics because it fosters (in my subjective view) the best type of discussion.
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#76I love this
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#77This is the kind of quirky, brilliant link I crave from Hacker News. If I was near you creator, I would garland you and rub your feet.
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It’s one of those ‘do it because you can’ kind of things. I wouldn’t spend time doing it myself, but happy to see others do it.
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#78Hexspeak[0] is a time-honoured tradition, with constants like 0xDEADBEEF used to mark uninitialised memory. Fun to see it applied to colours. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
I remember seeing 0xdeadbeef for the first time in dbx, which was my first experience with seeing uninitialized memory - was really surprised to not see it in the list on the website, since it's rgb+o (red/green/blue + opacity).
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#80This is the kind of quirky, brilliant link I crave from Hacker News. If I was near you creator, I would garland you and rub your feet.
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How old are you by chance?
There's a chance younger people simply won't understand or appreciate the interest in DEADBEEF.
Personally I found it kind of neat and wondered if I could design a colour palette out of rememberable code names.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeef
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
Heh looks like this has been done before too: http://bada55.io/