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@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    t’s really hard to imagine a world without Git

    I’ve lived it.

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    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      3 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.

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      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.