Google’s new Code Search feature is good news for software developers who want to avoid reinventing the wheel by finding an existing solution to a problem. It’s even better news for software developers (or anyone else for that matter) who are bored on a Friday afternoon and want to look up some rude words.
A couple of my favourites to date, hidden deep inside the source code that powers the world’s computers:
Searching for testicles… # FrSIRT 24/24 & 7/7 - Centre de Recherche on Donkey Testicles.
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Searching for bollocks… A note: the CTCP protocol sucks bollocks. If I ever meet the fellow who
came up with it, I'll shave their head and tattoo obscenities on it.
But the best ones combine swearing with technical jargon in a way that is almost poetic, for example: /* this is one of the fucking FPU tables out of the 00-BH range */
/* did I mention how much I hate Intel? Fucking wankers... */
Did Tennyson ever come up with such purity of expression? Did Wordsworth? Did Ayres?
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I’ve recently discovered Mr.Fastfinger and am still trying to work out exactly what he does. I think if you press the right buttons he teaches you how to play wibbly-wobbly guitar solos in the style of Slash or Yngwie J Malmsteen, but I haven’t made it past the Mountain of the Tapping Dwarves yet.