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Does anyone find the use of the word "fork" outside of open-source projects a bit annoying? BMW forked their 3-series coupe and called it 4-series. Ugh...
by spectramax 7y ago
Does anyone find the use of the word "fork" outside of open-source projects a bit annoying? BMW forked their 3-series coupe and called it 4-series. Ugh...
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- dfee 7y agoI just ate dinner with the in-laws and can attest to the fact that most Americans refer to the utensil with prongs at the end: a fork.
- gonzo 7y agoWill you also complain about Yogi Bera's "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes", published in 2001?
- taneq 7y agoBut that doesn’t verb the fork...
- zcrackerz 7y agoThe word fork has been used for various things in computing long before Github was around. I agree it's a bit overused in this article, but you have the Unix fork command, which creates a copy of the current process and effectively forks the execution. Older Macs of the 80's and 90's used a filesystem that allowed files to have both a data fork and a resource fork; they worked like independent streams to separate program data and embedded resources like images, sounds, etc.
- saagarjha 7y agoThis has a long history, even on Mac OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork