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.

  • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    A lot of Microsoft’s success was being in the right place at the right time to make the right deal.

    It was also having friends on the IBM board that signed a contract that didn’t make any commercial sense…