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Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners
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kdawson
on Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:01 PM
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from the oopsie dept.
saccade.com writes, "The new Google Code Search isn't just for hackers sniffing for passwords. Jason Kottke and friends have discovered the new feature reveals all sorts of dark corners hidden in our code. And you thought nobody ever read your comments!" From the article: "Code search is a great resource for web developers and programmers, but like the making available of all previously unsearched bodies of information, it's given lots of flashlights to people interested in exploring dark corners."
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google seems to inspire... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:google seems to inspire... (Score:5, Funny)
Jeez, I must have swallowed a dictionary!
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??? Profit! (Score:5, Funny)
2. Search Google Code [google.com]
3. ???
4. Profit!
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Dark corners? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Dark corners? (Score:5, Interesting)
" but IE6's implementation fucks up the..."
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Re:Dark corners? (Score:5, Interesting)
Just better not SCO know about this
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Re:Dark corners? (Score:4, Funny)
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Dark corners? (Score:5, Insightful)
They say sunshine is the best disinfectant. More eyeballs can fix problems as well as exploit them.
Ahhhh... (Score:3, Funny)
And the Ever Popular... (Score:5, Funny)
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Go Where Web Thinkers Gather [webcogito.com]
Re:And the Ever Popular... (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new xxxxxxxx overlords [google.com]
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Re:And the Ever Popular... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:And the Ever Popular... (Score:5, Interesting)
"guy who wrote this" [google.com] "in case some idiot" [google.com] "ugly hack" [google.com] "rewrite this later" [google.com] "hail mary" [google.com] "this shouldn't work" [google.com] "compiler happy" [google.com] "what the fuck" [google.com] "blows goats" [google.com]
And I really love this one: i=i++ [google.com]
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Re:And the Ever Popular... (Score:4, Funny)
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Old-school (Score:5, Interesting)
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http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=xyzzy [google.com]
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%22hello+sailo
And what's up with all the red-background links, anyway?
Re:Your signature that very much is a signature (Score:4, Informative)
You incult clod, if the GP said it it was because the GGP's sig is a reference to a painting of an apple that says "Ceci n'est pas une pomme" ("This is not an apple") because it's not an apple but really a painting. The GP was pointing that the GGP's sig was actually a signature although it claimed not to be one, and thus that it didn't fit the spirit of the painting it was refering to, and that it would have been more like the spirit of it if instead of having it to be an actual sig, it was something he pasted at the end of every of his posts to make it look like a sig. It would look like a sig, but it wouldn't be one.
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Bloody Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
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Ahh frustrated programmers (Score:3, Interesting)
Fucks. (Score:5, Interesting)
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This should never happen... (Score:5, Funny)
I like the memset search on that page too... scary. People need to run Lint or something. (Will Lint pick up that error?)
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And a few religious [google.com] constatnts [google.com] to ignite a flame war.
I had to do it... (Score:4, Funny)
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http://google.com/codesearch?q=+%22set+up+us+the%
My favorite programmer qoute... (Score:2)
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Today.
For the record (Score:5, Funny)
I was not drunk when I wrote this [google.com]; that's just some immature coder making fun of me.
Granted, being drunk is about the only valid excuse I could make for only initializing half of a doubly-linked list node . . .
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Wow. Just wow. (Score:2)
If you know it's a problem, why don't you fix it before you publish???
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No fun! (Score:3, Interesting)
Instead potential employers (like me) can google your code and read those comments that you wrote in there. Don't worry though... I won't hold those against you.
Anyway, "unless you really know what you're doing" and "smoking cracK" are also fun searchesa over there...
Suicidal code... (Score:4, Funny)
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A subroutine worse than death! (Score:2)
Favorite (Score:5, Interesting)
I wonder.. (Score:5, Funny)
The Wisdom of Mr. T. (Score:2)
You are not expected... (Score:4, Interesting)
See here [bell-labs.com] for an explanation (from the horse's mouth, as it were...)
Let the holy wars begin: (Score:3, Informative)
"perl sucks": Results 1 - 10 of about 32,900. (0.01 seconds)
It was hard to write... (Score:3, Funny)
This could affect future job applicants (Score:3, Insightful)
Goto isn't necessary evil (at least in C) (Score:3, Insightful)
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