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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A few libraries come to mind immediately: fftw (I think the most widely used fft library) or GMP (I think the most used multi precision library).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Huh... My dad is a software engineer and his name is Ronald. He also secured several software patents when he worked for a big chip wafer manufacturer. He might actually be the Ronald in this meme... ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] Ziglin 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

xz seems like another good example

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh and then you get all the projects with recursive acronyms, like WINE Is Not Emulation, MAME Ain't (an) Mp3 Encoder, and of course GNU's Not Unix.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

MAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

You're thinking of LAME. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How does one go about finding these people and make sure they don't end up like the dude that maintains slackware?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

GNU readline is a library that handles text input

[โ€“] BradleyUffner 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The world is built on is-even and is-odd!

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