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This play on words is a pretty okay joke.
by sdegutis 13y ago
This play on words is a pretty okay joke.
- MysticFear 13y agoThe person who created that acronym would get many Dogecoins from me.
- ziyan 13y agoThe person is not hard to find: https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/358 https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/358
- EdwardDiego 13y agoI'm cringing currently. It seems funny now, but in ten years, it'll be as funny as a Java class file's header being 0xCAFEBABE is.
- mseebach 13y agoI'd much rather have a joke that doesn't age well than a completely wit-less corporate committee specification. 0xCAFEBABE isn't laugh-out-loud funny (not sure it ever was), but I find it a comforting reminder that Java was actually written by humans. The "Duke" mascot, too. It's not at all hard to imagine an underemployed middle manager learning about it and demanding it being changed, in fear that the Important and Serious people who would write Important and Serious software in Java would think it's not an Important and Serious language.
- diminoten 13y ago0xCAFEBABE is (I can't believe I'm going to do this) vaguely sexist though, so the cringe for me, at least, is thinking about my daughter reading that and thinking her father came up with it, and thus believing "BABE" is the kind of phrase dad would use to describe women in general. Or maybe I'm over-reacting. No idea.
- mseebach 13y agoYes, you're overreacting. Babe is an endearing term. It's sexist only in the sense that it identifies the gender of the subject of endearment.
- LaGrange 13y ago> Babe is an endearing term. No it’s not. It’s only claimed to be by the users for plausible deniability, which actually makes it extra-bad. > Yes, you're overreacting. No, they’re not. But the three people jumping out and screaming „overreacting” and „endearing” probably are panicking.
- myko 13y agoI agree that cafe babe is sexist (like 'booth babe'). The word babe itself is completely endearing though - my SO and I call one another that all the time.
- LaGrange 13y agoQuite a few black people use the term „nigger” between themselves, and I know at least one couple that adopted „asshole” as an affectionate term. Not to mention completely ridiculous yet popular terms like „pumpkin”. Just because some people adopted the word in some narrow context doesn’t change its meaning outside of it. There’s many behaviors that are common and acceptable towards your significant other and yet completely demeaning when applied to a barista (that doesn’t happen to be your significant other). So, whatever people call each other while watching Star Wars reruns is utterly irrelevant here.
- sp332 13y agoThe thing with calling someone "babe" is that it's too... forward? It's something that you call people you already know, so saying "babe" to a stranger is presumptuous. Anything in that category would have the same effect I think: honey, sweetheart. It's also possible to use it in a belittling way, but I can't think of any synonym for "woman" which couldn't, if you use the right tone of voice. That's just general sexism, and the word "babe" wouldn't be worse than "lady" with the same delivery. If you're talking about something that's not in those two categories, could you like me to it so I can see what you're talking about?
- bsdetector 13y agoGTFO and ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM are symptoms of an unprofessional design process. It's not bad that a core standard be plain and functional, in fact it's a sign that the people designing it did so with the seriousness it deserves. If the http wg actually listened to PHK there would be some hope for it not to end up with the complicated garbage that it is now, but they don't.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago> GTFO and ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM are symptoms of an unprofessional design process. I'd chose "having sense of humour" over "professional" every day. > it's a sign that the people designing it did so with the seriousness it deserves. Or it's a sign that the people designing it are too serious, focusing on political correctness and not on doing good engineering. Creativity, care about the product and sense of humour often go together.
- Karunamon 13y agoGive me humanity and a sense of humor over PC-"professionalism" any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
- noptic 13y agoIt is ok because it makes sense. Unlike other (stupid) acronym jokes, GTFO describes the purpose very well. It is funny the first time you read and usefull because you can renember/recognice it better than TS.
- lmm 13y agoI feel obliged to create an alternative approach, Transport Indicated Termination of Session.
- mattdeboard 13y agoEvery organization would have to say to itself, "Option 1 or option 2"