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I honestly thought this was about the graphic API and resource management, I'm impressed by my own restricted imagination at this point.

geocar 7y ago
Same. And so struck was I by the writing and the story I scanned that I went back and read it aloud in an effort to get as much out of it as I good. These gems are treasures.
kureikain 7y ago
Yeah, Cairo nd Garbage Collector. Who will not imagine that?
zem 7y ago
that was my first thought, then i did a double take and realised what they were talking about.
zadkey 7y ago
Yeah, I was thinking this was some programming language I had never heard of. I was expecting a deep dive of compiler internals.
SilasX 7y ago
If you look up "garbage collection" on Wikipedia, you get this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_collection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_collection and it says: >"Garbage collection" redirects here. For the automatic memory management technique, see Garbage collection (computer science). For other uses, see Garbage collection (disambiguation). You can almost hear the eyeroll directed at programmers :-p
war1025 7y ago
I actually had the reverse. The first time I saw the article in the list I interpreted it correctly. And then this time I decided to click on the comments and found myself wondering whether it was some clever wordplay about the graphics library.
asdfman123 7y ago
At least it wasn't a trash collector in Jakarta. That would have been really confusing.
mschaef 7y ago
FWIW, I thought it was about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) I was a Cairo or so further out of date than you were. :-)
codesushi42 7y ago
In CAIRO, there's no garbage collector. It's reference counted.
jplayer01 7y ago
... funny. My first thought was actually Egypt and actual garbage because of how absurd a leap it would be, then figured it must be Cairo the OS or some other more likely Cairo.

geocar 7y ago

Same. And so struck was I by the writing and the story I scanned that I went back and read it aloud in an effort to get as much out of it as I good. These gems are treasures.

kureikain 7y ago

Yeah, Cairo nd Garbage Collector. Who will not imagine that?

zem 7y ago

that was my first thought, then i did a double take and realised what they were talking about.

zadkey 7y ago

Yeah, I was thinking this was some programming language I had never heard of. I was expecting a deep dive of compiler internals.

SilasX 7y ago

If you look up "garbage collection" on Wikipedia, you get this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_collection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_collection and it says: >"Garbage collection" redirects here. For the automatic memory management technique, see Garbage collection (computer science). For other uses, see Garbage collection (disambiguation). You can almost hear the eyeroll directed at programmers :-p

war1025 7y ago

I actually had the reverse. The first time I saw the article in the list I interpreted it correctly. And then this time I decided to click on the comments and found myself wondering whether it was some clever wordplay about the graphics library.

asdfman123 7y ago

At least it wasn't a trash collector in Jakarta. That would have been really confusing.

mschaef 7y ago

FWIW, I thought it was about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) I was a Cairo or so further out of date than you were. :-)

codesushi42 7y ago

In CAIRO, there's no garbage collector. It's reference counted.

jplayer01 7y ago

... funny. My first thought was actually Egypt and actual garbage because of how absurd a leap it would be, then figured it must be Cairo the OS or some other more likely Cairo.