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I understand Bracemonkey is like Greasemonkey, and B8 is like V8, but what is Barrelfish like?

• gjm11 17y ago
  No. Barrelfish is awfully close to Squirrelfish. Hence Tracemonkey -> Bracemonkey and V8 -> B8. Then again, a joke that needs explaining is a bad joke. So, sorry.
  • zandorg 17y ago
    I thought it was from shooting fish in a barrel?
    • pohl 17y ago
      Indeed. The name is awesome, I love it. It's provokative and arrogant. This project has to deliver. If this stays in perpetual research and never becomes a product I'm going to be bummed.
  • bockris 17y ago
    OT on bad or obscure jokes: I have an image posted in my cube that is a pic of Bruce Schneier and the caption reads "Bruce Schneier knows the state of Schroedinger's cat" Someone asked me to explain it to them so I talked about Schroedinger's cat and the Chuck Norris jokes. Then who Bruce Schneier is and tied it all up with quantum crytography. After all that, she gave me a half-hearted smile and made some crack about my geekiness. After thinking about her reaction for a second, I penned the following tweet. "Having to explain why a joke is funny collapses it's waveform and then it's just words." http://twitter.com/jaywgraves/status/3864172416 http://twitter.com/jaywgraves/status/3864172416
    • anigbrowl 17y ago
      Handwriting recognition rules.
  • sdp 17y ago
    Bad joke for me, maybe. People who get it will read your message, laugh, then read the explanation (maybe).