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It gets worse. A very long time ago a was working for a startup that was doing real-time speech compression, for telephony applications, using a DSP, with the c

by not2b 4y ago

It gets worse. A very long time ago a was working for a startup that was doing real-time speech compression, for telephony applications, using a DSP, with the compression/decompression implemented in assembly language. The code had two processes, an analysis process and a synthesis process. My colleague named the entry point to the synthesis process synth_entry, and he named the entry point to the analysis process anal_entry. Either he honestly didn't realize, as he claimed, or he was better at keeping a straight face than anyone I ever met.

sprior 4y ago
I think programmers get used to the idea that some names for things are never meant to be spoken and don't ever say them in their head to see what they'd sound like.
- smabie 4y ago
  Reminds me of a variable name at my last job, fagg. Stood for like frequency aggregator or something..
- mcculley 4y ago
  Also, some people don’t have an “inner voice”. I don’t hear words when I read them. Sometimes I miss puns if I don’t go back and sound them out.
  - sprior 4y ago
    I heard about that recently, I can't imagine how that works.
thawaya3113 4y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if I have a few “anal”s lying around in veritable names I’ve written over the years. We have a lot of “analysis” in our application and I bet I have shortened them a few times, and in my head I would have pronounced it as uh-naa-l not realizing what it also looked like.
- fferen 4y ago
  Exactly what I was thinking. I remember I once used "ana" everywhere in a program to avoid this.
- procanal 4y ago
  I wrote a utility to analyze processes for a database system that liked to capitalize and abbreviate everything. To keep my naming conventions in the spirit of things, and because I was feeling a little spicy that day, I named the table that the utility wrote the analysis results into "PROC.ANAL"
cossatot 4y ago
Matlab and SciPy both have ‘cumtrapz’ for trapezoidal integration.
- lights0123 4y ago
  Although SciPy retains an alias for compatibility, the preferred name has changed: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/12924 https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/12924
  - xyzzy123 4y ago
    Whats sort of funny about that to my mind is, the original authors were very likely innocent / oblivious in terms of alternative meanings and it's the (quote unquote) dirty minds of the PR/MR fix authors which make them a problem. "I object to my own urban dictionary / reddit-based post-hoc interpretation of this abbrevation. It's offensive.". Which is fine. We can fix all the things, and yes it's short term pain but not a big deal. What was said isn't the same as what is heard. Where there are historically unfortunate names, we can deal with them just like all the other changes we make as a matter of course.
  - lupire 4y ago
    > *, 3/4 of the sample based integrated method names are, or are very close to, popular sexual-ish diminutives or slurs: That's magical.
iamwil 4y ago
I was whiteboarding with a fellow (girl) student in college. We were sketching out a client/server architecture, and I abbreviated server as "srvr". When it came to the client, I thought I should also make it four letters, so I wrote "clit". I stood back and looked at it. After a couple seconds pause, it dawned on my brain that was probably a terrible shortening. I wordlessly erased my gaffe, and just wrote out the whole word. So yeah, I can believe it happens by mistake at times.
- medstrom 4y ago
  "clnt" would've been consistent with "srvr", both vowel-less.
- Karellen 4y ago
  "If I had to do it over again, I'd spell 'clit' with an 'en'."
  - ColinWright 4y ago
    Be interesting to know how many people get that reference. I'd create a poll, but it's probably not worth it.
    - Pamar 4y ago
      I didn't, but I am here to learn things: can someone please explain the reference? TIA.
      - ColinWright 4y ago
        It's part of Un*x folklore, from Ken Thompson when asked what he might have done differently: Xra Gubzcfba jnf bapr nfxrq jung ur jbhyq qb qvssreragyl vs ur jrer erqrfvtavat gur HAVK flfgrz. Uvf ercyl: "V'q fcryy perng jvgu na r." Found here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
        4y ago
irrational 4y ago
I’ll take anal entry for $500 Trebek.
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giomasce 4y ago
In a functional analysis class ("analisi funzionale" in Italian, shortened "anal fun") our professor suggested us to complete an exercise using one of the most relevant theorems in the field: the dominated convergence theorem ("convergenza dominata" in Italian, shortened "con dom").
bencollier49 4y ago
The people who made Docker didn't account for the full range of British double entendres when it came to naming images. I can't remember what the second word was, but I'm pretty sure the first was something along the lines of "excited" and it appeared in a tech brown bag session when I was presenting.

by not2b 4y ago

sprior 4y ago

I think programmers get used to the idea that some names for things are never meant to be spoken and don't ever say them in their head to see what they'd sound like.

smabie 4y ago
Reminds me of a variable name at my last job, fagg. Stood for like frequency aggregator or something..
mcculley 4y ago
Also, some people don’t have an “inner voice”. I don’t hear words when I read them. Sometimes I miss puns if I don’t go back and sound them out.
- sprior 4y ago
  I heard about that recently, I can't imagine how that works.

thawaya3113 4y ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if I have a few “anal”s lying around in veritable names I’ve written over the years. We have a lot of “analysis” in our application and I bet I have shortened them a few times, and in my head I would have pronounced it as uh-naa-l not realizing what it also looked like.

fferen 4y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. I remember I once used "ana" everywhere in a program to avoid this.
procanal 4y ago
I wrote a utility to analyze processes for a database system that liked to capitalize and abbreviate everything. To keep my naming conventions in the spirit of things, and because I was feeling a little spicy that day, I named the table that the utility wrote the analysis results into "PROC.ANAL"

cossatot 4y ago

Matlab and SciPy both have ‘cumtrapz’ for trapezoidal integration.

lights0123 4y ago
Although SciPy retains an alias for compatibility, the preferred name has changed: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/12924 https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/12924
- xyzzy123 4y ago
  Whats sort of funny about that to my mind is, the original authors were very likely innocent / oblivious in terms of alternative meanings and it's the (quote unquote) dirty minds of the PR/MR fix authors which make them a problem. "I object to my own urban dictionary / reddit-based post-hoc interpretation of this abbrevation. It's offensive.". Which is fine. We can fix all the things, and yes it's short term pain but not a big deal. What was said isn't the same as what is heard. Where there are historically unfortunate names, we can deal with them just like all the other changes we make as a matter of course.
- lupire 4y ago
  > *, 3/4 of the sample based integrated method names are, or are very close to, popular sexual-ish diminutives or slurs: That's magical.

iamwil 4y ago

I was whiteboarding with a fellow (girl) student in college. We were sketching out a client/server architecture, and I abbreviated server as "srvr". When it came to the client, I thought I should also make it four letters, so I wrote "clit". I stood back and looked at it. After a couple seconds pause, it dawned on my brain that was probably a terrible shortening. I wordlessly erased my gaffe, and just wrote out the whole word. So yeah, I can believe it happens by mistake at times.

medstrom 4y ago
"clnt" would've been consistent with "srvr", both vowel-less.
Karellen 4y ago
"If I had to do it over again, I'd spell 'clit' with an 'en'."
- ColinWright 4y ago
  Be interesting to know how many people get that reference. I'd create a poll, but it's probably not worth it.
  - Pamar 4y ago
    I didn't, but I am here to learn things: can someone please explain the reference? TIA.
    - ColinWright 4y ago
      It's part of Un*x folklore, from Ken Thompson when asked what he might have done differently: Xra Gubzcfba jnf bapr nfxrq jung ur jbhyq qb qvssreragyl vs ur jrer erqrfvtavat gur HAVK flfgrz. Uvf ercyl: "V'q fcryy perng jvgu na r." Found here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
      - 4y ago

irrational 4y ago

I’ll take anal entry for $500 Trebek.

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giomasce 4y ago

In a functional analysis class ("analisi funzionale" in Italian, shortened "anal fun") our professor suggested us to complete an exercise using one of the most relevant theorems in the field: the dominated convergence theorem ("convergenza dominata" in Italian, shortened "con dom").

bencollier49 4y ago

The people who made Docker didn't account for the full range of British double entendres when it came to naming images. I can't remember what the second word was, but I'm pretty sure the first was something along the lines of "excited" and it appeared in a tech brown bag session when I was presenting.