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  • The GNU kernel was not originally supposed to be called the Hurd. Its original name was Alix—named after the woman who was my sweetheart at the time. She, a Unix system administrator, had pointed out how her name would fit a common naming pattern for Unix system versions; as a joke, she told her friends, “Someone should name a kernel after me.” I said nothing, but decided to surprise her with a kernel named Alix.

    Source: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html

  • Have all of your functions named after loved ones and/or nicknames for your genitalia - that way you can say stuff like “muh dick needs to call shawty in order to work”.

  • duuude, one of my favorite devices ever was a pre-ipod mp3 player (empeg), and it had "wendy filters".. which were essentially 'my girlfriend is in the car, dont play this shit'.. but i seem to recall that was the name of the feature 'wendy filters'

  • X: "Your code isn't working because there's something missing at the end of this line"

    Y: "Oh. Well then, do you wanna semicolon?"

    That's rizzzz with a Z++.

    Step up, song makers. Don't get tied up in your chords

    • Me trying to write a love song: Crap, I just re-wrote "Giant Steps"

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