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.....that's the tip of the iceberg!
Date: 2012-07-14 05:25 pm (UTC)So what if the humour in this "magic constant" is male-orientated? The only people to take offense to this are people who are equally as braindead as those who take offense to the very existence of
So what if the humour in this "magic constant" is male-orientated? The only people to take offense to this are people who are equally as braindead as those who take offense to the very existence of <Ubuntu|Debian> Women and the like (and there's more of an argument for that being inherently exclusionary in title than this joke!).
It's freely contributed code, if I had any say i'd vote for 0xB16B00B5 to remain. It's no worse than potentially offending vegans with 0xDEADBEEF or calling a Linux distribution a Beefy Miracle.