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Not at all, for example, search for "blob" here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981376 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981376 There is one correct u
by koide 14y ago
Not at all, for example, search for "blob" here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981376 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981376
There is one correct use, and three other uses talking about "binary blobs" without a negative connotation.
My opinion is that the layman term got mixed up with the database term and thus we got this mess (should I say blob?)
- mistercow 14y agoI don't think any of those are intended to imply "binary large object". They are just talking about non-human-readable data. They may not be implying any negative connotations anymore, but that's the origin of "binary blob".