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Personally I use the word "MEOW" because a) it's easy to search for and spot in logs b) it will (hopefully) never be a legitimate string in the kind of things I
by lexicality 2y ago
Personally I use the word "MEOW" because
a) it's easy to search for and spot in logs
b) it will (hopefully) never be a legitimate string in the kind of things I work on
c) fairly unlikely to cause offence (unless the customer is a dog)
- SpaceNoodled 2y agoBRB grepping our codebase for MEOW
- bendigedig 2y agoI use "meow", "woof", and "cheeseburger".
- Tijdreiziger 2y agohttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog.... (alt text: vintage meme depicting two dogs using a computer, captioned ‘On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.’)
- ithinkso 2y agoOur testers (China and India) know that when they see KURWA or DUPA in logs that to send it straight to the polish site, we are considering adding a hook to check for those
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoNot a good choice if you refer to "homeowners" in the app though.
- stuartjohnson12 2y agoWanted to make this comment, scrolled in anxious anticipation hoping no one else had made it yet, sadness washes over me.
- herodoturtle 2y agoHacker news poetry right here.
- Damogran6 2y agoHave an upvote, just the same. (From someone else who's thoughts aren't as original as he'd once thought.)
- coldpie 2y agoI use "QWERT", for the same reasons.
- mananaysiempre 2y agoHope you aren’t inspecting COM or DCOM data then. Those MEOW all over the place. > The header of the marshaled object reference begins with a distinguished signature (‘MEOW’)⁶ [...]. > ⁶ A Microsoft Program Manager who shall remain anonymous claims that MEOW stands for Microsoft Extended Object Wire representation. The author, while somewhat gullible, is skeptical of this story but is willing to give the aforementioned source the benefit of the doubt. — Don Box, Essential COM
- dh2022 2y agoMEOW fits in 4 bytes and the string is probably aligned on 4-bytes boundary (being at the start of the reference) So probably not a bad choice for a binary protocol.
- Biganon 2y agoI usually go with "coucou" or "prout", French for "hello" and "<fart sound>", respectively. When I'm fed up I use "merde".
- IIsi50MHz 2y agoSome time ago, when working on glue code between Excel and our product, I was very fed up with being unable to do exceptions or other sane error-handling on the VBA side. So, I wrote up some code with ```On Error GoTo hell```, which got me a public lecture. Now, when I'm not required to use some other name, I tend to name my error handlers "hope".
- veunes 2y agoIt has a kind of charm to it. Like leaving your own harmless, personal mark on the code without risking another "I SEE YOU!" moment.