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Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls had a latent bug in its binary search program for 20 years. This is so humbling. Not only did the master miss this, despite pr

• ant6n 6y ago
  That website is borked, half the content is off screen on mobile.
  • high_priest 6y ago
    What in the world means "borked"? Is it some kind of hybrid of "botched" and "broken"?
    • owyn 6y ago
      Ha yes, exactly. There are a few different meanings based on context. But it's primarily just one of those fun sounding nonsense words that I also like to say. Not sure where I picked it up from. It is usable in any sentence as a drop in like a G-rated "fucked". There's the nonsensical swedish chef muppet catch phrase "bork bork bork", but he usually says that before everything goes wrong. There was also a judge named "Bork" who was "borked" when his nomination to the supreme court was blocked. I feel like "borked" is probably of a vintage like "fubared" which is a WW2 thing.