{"id":794,"date":"2009-06-03T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/?p=794"},"modified":"2009-06-03T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T07:05:12","slug":"microsoft-cibai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/microsoft-cibai\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CIBAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently twitterers in Singapore and Malaysia discovered an old project called CIBAI yesterday and <a href=\"http:\/\/josh.my\/2009\/05\/microsoft-cibai-microsoft-names-new-software-after-slang-term-for-vagina\/\">started sniggering because <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/josh.my\/2009\/05\/microsoft-cibai-microsoft-names-new-software-after-slang-term-for-vagina\/\">cibai<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/josh.my\/2009\/05\/microsoft-cibai-microsoft-names-new-software-after-slang-term-for-vagina\/\">\u00a0is a Hokkien slang term for vagina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbrown.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/cibai-the-latest-trending-topic-on-twitter.html\">Someone from Microsoft then helpfully clarified<\/a> that CIBAI was an acronym for Class Invariants By Abstract Interpretation, was something one a Microsoft researcher had worked on independently, and that the concidence was unintentional and they will look into removing the acronym from the website shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, Eve Ensler will demand to know why Microsoft is embarassed by this and why Cibai should not be an appropriate name for a technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently twitterers in Singapore and Malaysia discovered an old project called CIBAI yesterday and started sniggering because cibai\u00a0is a Hokkien slang term for vagina. Someone from Microsoft then helpfully clarified that CIBAI was an acronym for Class Invariants By Abstract Interpretation, was something one a Microsoft researcher had worked on independently, and that the concidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirder-than-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-cO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}