• Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Programmers have all kinds of weird keywords that if they’re taken out of context would be quite alarming.

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      1 year ago

      I was once asked by our CTO to remove all instances of the word “nonce” from our crypto code. (British slang for paedophile/pervert)

      And writing code to find, kill, and reap orphaned children is routine stuff. I mean, you wouldn’t want to risk pesky zombie orphans running amok in your system!