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Admittedly clueless question: what does 'brrr' mean? (I'm not a software dev and idioms that may be obvious to others are unfamiliar to me.)
by xenocyon 7y ago
Admittedly clueless question: what does 'brrr' mean? (I'm not a software dev and idioms that may be obvious to others are unfamiliar to me.)
- lonelappde 7y agoIt's a meme not a software thing. It's the metaphor for sound of a machine working at high speed.
- T-hawk 7y agoIt's the whirring sound of a motor. The for loop is metaphorically spinning to loop over everything instead of doing something smarter to find what it needs. The programmer thinks the whirring sound means it's doing a lot of work for him. It's an interesting dichotomy because the most practical solution could go either way. Maybe it's looping over a table of 20 customers and the wasted time is microseconds that wouldn't even justify ten minutes of developer thought, or maybe it's looping over a million customers and causing all sorts of capacity problems. Maybe the memetic "senior dev" here knows the former is true, or maybe his "senior" experience was all misplaced and he's clueless.
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- rovr138 7y ago_brrrrrr_ Goes a fast spinning motor
- sergiotapia 7y agoIt originated from a meme of the Federal Reserve printing more monopoly money. "Printing machine goes brrrr". As they turn the crank ever faster making the printing machines smoke.