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[–] [email protected] 260 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I forked an opensource project to add a couple features for my wife. 😊

[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And? Did she accept your, err, pull request? 😏

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

This is the kind of love I need in life πŸ’œ

So cute! And practical!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For half a second I read this as "to add a couple of features to my wife"

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[–] [email protected] 213 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Girl, I named no variables after you, because you're my only Constant"

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can also combine your names into a Linux distribution.

Deb + Ian = Debian.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bet they've broken up since

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The word "Debian" was formed as a portmanteau of the first name of his then-girlfriend (later ex-wife) Debra Lynn and his own first name

Wiki

[–] mindbleach 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Later ex-wife" is like three tenses of information at once.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Debra must be so pissed by now

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[–] cantstopthesignal 142 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

For being a sick burn, that was ice cold. I love it.

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[–] ArbitraryValue 140 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Once when I was still a kid, I told a woman I loved her so much that I could only love her more if she was a robot.

She did not think that was romantic.

[–] UnRelatedBurner 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there are so many things wrong with this

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's kinda sweet for a kid. I mean what's cooler than a robot when you're 7? that's pretty much the pinnicle of "cool" at that age, or at least it was for me. So to compare a crush to a robot for a kid is similar to shakespear comparing thier lover to "a summer's day" or Selena Gomez comparing thier lover to "a love song"

[–] ArbitraryValue 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I, uh, wasn't 7. I was about 10 years older than that and just dumb.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking about you when I cleaned up this codebase and removed a lot of redundant functions.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That sounds more like breaking up.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I send my wife code she has nfi idea about but knows I'm proud so she pretends to be impressed.

I win her heart over by making life much easier through technology and handling all that shit. When she can grab a PS4 controller, hit start, and sit on the couch, she knows not all ladies get their TV and sound system on, all inputs adjusted, game mode set, and Nintendo Switch home screen come up ready to launch Zelda.

"Babe, I could IFTTT the lights to drop to a gaming atmosphere and have your phone go into DND mode if you want. Just let me know."

SPLOOOOOOSH

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (11 children)

This person misunderstands a beautiful function code can be very sexy or maybe I'm a odd girl.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I made a website for my wife with a list of a ton of reasons why I love her and each time she taps the screen it shows a new one.

So... that is a thing you can do for the cost of a domain name and some cheap hosting.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure, but at least they won't be afraid of commitment.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

git branch testing.stephanie.slept.with.my.friend.brad

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Name a linux distro after her and yourself. Always works.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Image Transcription: Twitter Post

bass boosted ACAB @lil_morgy

hooking up with artists is hot cuz theyll be like "i thought of you when i wrote this song". what are tech guys gonna do? name a git branch after you? the fuck

[* I am a human volunteer and you could be too ❀️*]

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

β€œThe two hardest problems in programming are cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.”

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No. They'll just name an entire lineup of the worlds biggest computers after your daughter.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Little baby Thinkpad really deserves it.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The creator of MySQL, MaxDB and MariaDB named them after his children My, Max and Maria, so why not

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wrote an automation specifically for my partner to unlock the front door when they arrive home.

Also we got a sexy time button.

Home Assistant is a path to what many would consider... Unnatural.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

When I was learning programming I wrote a small program that I called for_you.exe. It printed an animated ASCII penis ejaculating on some boobs. I emailed it to my girlfriend and thankfully she thought it was hilarious. We're still together.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can tell your age by the fact that you were emailing an exe file.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean Steve Jobs named the Lisa after the daughter he disowned. There’s opportunities here.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can swing both ways. Half of Taylor Swift’s songs don’t paint her ex’s in a good light.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (8 children)

MySQL, MariaDB, and MaxScale are all named after Ulf "Monty" Widenius' kids

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’d feel very wooed if my wife named a Linux distro or some open source project of hers after me

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] fsxylo 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Keeping programming as far away from my relationships as possible.

Instead, I distract them with the fact that I'm a pretty damned good cook and know where the best hole in the wall restaurants are.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Naming variables after loved ones. Stephanie += 1 Stephanie/bob = Jeff

If Jeff == Stephanie: Jerome(Stevens)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, I made my girlfriend a GUI app that converts subtitles from Windows-1251 to utf-8 encoding so that she doesn't have to remember how to do it. And I didn't even name it after her...

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