Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if “runk” was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
    link
    English
    253 months ago

    t’s really hard to imagine a world without Git

    I’ve lived it.

    • CriticalFile.vbs
    • CriticalFile.V2.vbs
    • CripicalFile.V2.5.vbs
    • CriticalFile.DONOTEDIT.txt
    • _Old.CriticalFile.aspx
    • LinkToCriticalFilesFold.lnk
    • GuideToDeploying.CriticalFliles.doc
    • CritFil.bat
    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
      link
      English
      43 months ago

      The first job I had out of college was doing development on the production server with this method of version control. I still have nightmares.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      33 months ago

      Lots of people still split latex documents into one section per file, because subversion used file locks and we only knew how one person could edit a file at a time.