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The type of people that actually get offended by this stuff are rarely those involved with actually working with the protocol. I like this stuff. It reminds me
by SDGT 13y ago
The type of people that actually get offended by this stuff are rarely those involved with actually working with the protocol.
I like this stuff. It reminds me that humans with a sense of humor build the things we use everyday, and not some emotionless robot.
- gaius 13y agoUltimately HTTP 2.0 is like IPv6, no-one actually cares. Having said that, people do get upset about 0xDEADBEEF and 0xCAFEBABE, those people need to get lives. Or come up with some other words using only 6 letters.
- Crito 13y agoI can see how 0xCAFEBABE might cause issues in the modern tech community, but 0xDEADBEEF? Do they just hate hexspeak in general?
- gaius 13y agoVegans. I'll wager someone out there, perhaps unwittingly, has 0xDEADBABE in their binary, God help them if the twitterati finds out.
- duggan 13y ago>> 0xDEADBABE ("Dead Babe") is used by IBM Jikes RVM as a sanity check of the stack of the primary thread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak#cite_note-13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak#cite_note-13
- Crito 13y agoHeh, maybe. I'd be interested to know if there have ever been any documented cases of vegans actually being offended by 0xDEADBEEF (in anything other than a joking way). Seems like something that is only 'hypothetically offensive'.
- watwut 13y agoUnfortunately, the type of people that actually get offended by this stuff tend to go around looking for this stuff. And once it finds it, it starts twitter campaign against you and your project. If you are have no public talking experience/training, you are going to loose and be labeled ugly names.
- SDGT 13y agoI kind of aspire to be that much of a "Jimmy Rustler" one day. I make it a mission to treat people with actual respect, but to be recognized and campaigned against for something like coding a not politically correct, but totally benign protocol into existence, would be an accomplishment I could only dream of at this point. I'd be flattered if someone cared that much.
- Crito 13y agoBeing the target of such a campaign can have 'real-world' implications, so you might want to make sure you have "fuck you"-money before looking for that sort of fight.