The Foobar authorization server will engage the user with 'Google, Inc.
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As of ES6, JavaScript has direct constructors like many other programming languages. They are written as such class FooBar { constructor(baz) { this.baz = baz } } This can be instantiated as such const foo = new FooBar('7') The equivalent of this before ES6, was creating a function that instantiates an object as such function FooBar (baz) { this.baz = baz; } This is instantiated the same way as above.
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Foobar was also used as a variable name in the Fortran code of Colossal Cave Adventure (1977 Crowther and Woods version). The variable FOOBAR was used to contain the player's progress in saying the magic phrase "Fee Fie Foe Foo". Intel also used the term foo in their programming documentation in 1978.
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Since overbars designate repeating decimal numbers, the word foobar also signifies a number in hexadecimal, a base typically used in low level programming. That number is 0.F00F00F00 ... , which equals the decimal fraction 256/273. The term foobar was propagated through computer science circles in the 1960s and early 1970s by system manuals from Digital Equipment Corporation.
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The dd Unix utility program reads octet streams from a source to a destination, possibly performing data conversions in the process. Destroying existing data on a file system partition (low-level formatting): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ Creating a 1 MiB file, called foobar, filled with null characters: dd if=/dev/zero of=foobar count=1024 bs=1024 Note: The block size value can be given in SI (decimal) values, e.g. in GB, MB, etc. To create a 1 GB file one would simply type: dd if=/dev/zero of=foobar count=1 bs=1GB Note: Instead of creating a real file with only zero bytes, many file systems also support the creation of sparse files which returns zeros upon reading but use less actual space.
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In .NET Framework languages such as C#, static fields can be marked with the ThreadStatic attribute: class FooBar { [ThreadStatic] private static int _foo; } In .NET 4.0 the System.Threading.ThreadLocal class is available for allocating and lazily loading thread-local variables.
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Smokey Stover driving a "foomobile" The etymology of foobar could be derived from the military slang from the World War II era FUBAR, which was bowdlerised to foobar. The word foo on its own was used earlier. Between about 1930 and 1952 it appeared in the comic Smokey Stover by Bill Holman, who stated that, he used the word due to having seen it on the bottom of a jade Chinese figurine in San Francisco Chinatown, purportedly signifying "good luck". If true this is related to the Chinese word fu ("福", sometimes transliterated foo), which can mean happiness or blessing.
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The terms foobar (), or foo and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. \- Etymology of "Foo" They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to demonstrate a concept.
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After working on her first feature film, Wu subsequently worked on a film based on Rachel DeWoskin's memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China. The movie, however, did not make it past pre- production. In 2008, she sold a pitch to ABC called "Foobar" based on her experiences working as a woman in the tech world.
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Metasyntactic variables used commonly across all programming languages include foobar, foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, quuz, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, and thud; several of these words are references to the game Colossal Cave Adventure. Wibble, wobble, wubble, and flob are also used in the UK.wibble. (n.d.). Jargon File 4.4.7. Retrieved February 23, 2010, from A complete reference can be found in a MIT Press book titled The Hacker's Dictionary.
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A number of military slang terms are acronyms. Rick Atkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up), FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond Any Repair or "All Recognition"), and a bevy of other terms to cynical GIs ridiculing the United States Army's penchant for acronyms. Terms then end up being used in other industries as these GIs complete their services. For example, FUBAR evolved into Foobar as GIs coming home from World War II matriculated into Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the first written use from a club at MIT called the Tech Model Railroad Club.
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Five of the six originators of BarCamp: Tantek Çelik, Chris Messina, Ryan King, Andy Smith (termie), and Matt Mullenweg. Aung San Suu Kyi gives speech during BarCamp Yangon 2012 The name BarCamp is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the programmer slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as an open- to-the-public alternative to Foo Camp, which is an annual invitation-only participant-driven conference hosted by Tim O'Reilly. The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19–21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week,Tantek.
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The first known use of the terms in print in a programming context appears in a 1965 edition of MIT's Tech Engineering News. Foobar may have come about as a result of the pre-existing "Foo" being conjoined with "bar", an addition borrowed from the military's FUBAR. The use of foo in a programming context is generally credited to the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) of MIT from circa 1960. In the complex model system, there were scram switches located at numerous places around the room that could be thrown if something undesirable was about to occur, such as a train going full-bore at an obstruction.
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There was > always an audible relay transition time delay when switching from A to B. > When switching from A to X, however, the time delay would be missing if X > was really A and present if X was really B. This extraneous cue was removed > by inserting a fixed length dropout time when any change was made. The > dropout time was selected to be 50 ms which produces a slight consistent > click while allowing subjectively instant comparison. The ABX company is now defunct and hardware comparators in general as commercial offerings extinct. Myriad of software tools exist such as Foobar ABX plug-in for performing file comparisons.
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A typical example would be that of swapping the contents of two variables. To swap the contents of variables a and b one would typically use a temporary variable temp as follows, so as to preserve the data from a as it is being overwritten by b: temp := a a := b b := temp Temporary variables are usually named with identifiers that abbreviate the word temporary, such as temp, tmp or simply t, or with common metasyntactic variable names, the most common of which are foo, bar, baz (see also foobar). Computer hardware is designed to exploit the behaviour of temporary data: a cache or register file may contain temporaries internally to a microprocessor, such that they never need to be committed to main memory (hence consuming no external memory bandwidth).
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