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Google launches Brotli, a new open source compression algorithm to speed up the web.
But now there is controversy over the selection of 'bro' as the content encoding type and ',bro' as the extension for Brotli encoded files.
"bro" has a gender problem, even though the dual meaning is unintentional. It comes off misogynistic and unprofessional due to the world it lives in. I received a series of 'bro' jokes in response to my posting about this new feature. Best to avoid it rather than spending time defending an arbitrary nickname.
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You mean the conflict that was literally resolved within five comments?
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I don't know why they didn't just use
.brotli
...even Windows handles six character extensions these days.
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Because they want to shave off 4 bytes
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Because they want to shave off 4 bytes
Oh, -- as a DBA at my company says, "Don't save me bytes." What do they think this is, the land of 5 megabyte drives and 8 KB memories?
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You mean the conflict that was literally resolved within five comments?
Well, yes. They quickly resolved a non-existent problem, solely out of fear that this non-existent problem may offend someone.
Oh the horror!!
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As it turns out,
.bro
already exists:
There's also these:
And no-one gives a http://filext.com/file-extension/SHT
I shall now mute this thread as it'll inevitably descend into some pointless SJW/anti-feminist/pro-feminist/GG/sexism/misogyny/misandry flamewar that I have 0% interest in even acknowledging its existence.
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I shall now mute this thread as it'll inevitably descend into some pointless SJW/anti-feminist/pro-feminist/GG/sexism/misogyny/misandry flamewar that I have 0% interest in even acknowledging its existence.
The this thread sucks thread is: 500 OK
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I hate "bro"-culture and every "bro"-thing less in the world is a good thing.
brotli
is a fully adequate name for a command.
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Maybe they're targeting Arduino UNO webservers.
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Still, this is a fairly idiotic 'controversy', especially since it is so easily resolved.
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That's that then.
Time to argue about something only tangentially related for a thousand posts.
Oh gee golly Windows sure sucks in how it handles filenames or something. Linux is way better.
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Seriously, why do people still try to use 3- or 4-character file extensions? I want verbose file extensions like
.microsoft-word-document
and.python-3
.EDIT: and
.google-brotli
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It's mostly a historical accident, and yes, longer file extensions would be an improvement. However, I would take it further and say that tracking document format ought to be through metadata anyway. The use of extensions was an expedient that really only caught on because the systems that used them did, and they were easier to understand and work into existing tools than something more esoteric like resource forks or whatnot.
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I agree, but realistically you'd have to make a brand new very popular OS and filesystem for that to catch on at all. Once again, the limitations of the past continue to limit the future :<nowiki />(
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The entire point of the thing (presumably, I didn't even click the link) is to save bytes. Bytes don't matter with storage or 10 gig ethernet internal server networks, 1 gig access distribution or even 100mbps desktop links. But when you aggregate billions of requests (and the trend is for every single thing to make a zillion HTTP requests) it stacks up. Just like SPDY, this is Google wishing we'd all throw away perfectly cromulent, highly debuggable standards to solve their infrastructure problems.
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I agree, but realistically you'd have to make a brand new very popular OS and filesystem for that to catch on at all.
But dropbox won't support it, probably ...
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If you're going to make a new OS and filesystem in this day and age, why wouldn't you bundle a cloud storage service? Do you not want it to catch on?
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I intend to, or at least mock one up. Given that Kether is an experiment rather than a practical system (though I mean to write it as if it were practical), it doesn't really matter, but I mean to anyway.
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It's actually an anti-WTF because for once, an open source project thought about this shit BEFORE they launched and got popular.
In a world with Git and GIMP, this is truly an amazing thing.
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Don't compress me brotli!
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Timely reference.
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Envy becomes you.
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every "bro"-thing less in the world is a good thing.
Broccoli is good for your health, though. And I think some people of both genders would get understandably upset if you rid the world of all brothels. Not to mention brownies, those you can pry from my cold dead hands.
You can have bronchitis, though.
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What do you name the output of
gcc -c foo.c
if notfoo.o
?
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bin/foo
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Not obj/foo ?
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I know right! Who knows what those crazy gnu/linux developers will think of next?
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a.out
obviously.
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You can have bronchitis, though.
Have some of these, then:
Herb toffee btw, the taste is quite minty, so they market it with the phrase "Breath relief" (in red area on the pack). I doubt that the amounts of herb stuff in them are significant enough for any effect but, you know, marketing...
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Broccoli is good for your health, though. And I think some people of both genders would get understandably upset if you rid the world of all brothels. Not to mention brownies, those you can pry from my cold dead hands.
You can have bronchitis, though.
We could browse for brobdingnagian broiled brogues using broken broadband by the brook in Bromley.
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I believe the thing you're looking for would be something like MIME types. Extensions that long would just serve as clutter when you view them. 3-4 characters are usually good enough to describe something, but you can always go longer.
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Extensions that long would just serve as clutter when you view them.
My eyes are trained to differentiate file names from extensions. What is this clutter you speak of?
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Herb toffee btw, the taste is quite minty, so they market it with the phrase "Breath relief"
Go suck on a bro.
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