Comments on: Was Microsoft referring to female breasts or its CEO?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:58:07 +0000

No, I’m pretty sure the word has an origin of its own.

By: rpenner

rpenner — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:55:21 +0000

Isn’t it still misogynistic to call a man a f***ing c**t, so doesn’t that apply to the term “boob” ?

(Please feel free to edit the above to your editorial needs.)

Admittedly, the 8-symbol hexadecimal constant is a limited expression medium. I think java uses 0xCAFE, 0xCAFEBABE and 0xD00D in the headers of its jar and/or class files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_%28file_format%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_class_file

By: Uncle Glenny

Uncle Glenny — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:38:01 +0000

Gassee was at Apple early 90s; I was in Cambridge not Cupertino.

By: Uncle Glenny

Uncle Glenny — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:34:40 +0000

Wow. All I ever got was a second-hand report of Jean-Louis Gassee explaining (of developers in some context or other) that they needed something (hardware design?) to “make their nipples hard.”

Back early 80s or thereabouts I had access to VAX/VMS source code on microfiche (!). One of the options was to have it automatically generate passwords, and of course they were both concerned with suggesting dirty words AND having dirty words in the source, so did something clever. I don’t remember what it was (if I ever bothered to figure it out) but I don’t think it was as simple as rot13.

Not as funny as AOL disallowing the legitimate place name Scunthorpe.