Heh. I kinda figured it was a debug possible placeholder. I don't think it's a common, coder/programmer specific thing, as I personally have never heard of that specific phrase. But then again, I sort of haven't been up to speed on things in the coder/programming/hacker community. So if it's new, it's new(s) to me.
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It is somewhat common practice to use random words as placeholders for variables and debugging stuff. Foo, bar or foobar are very common. When I was in school... heh, a majority of my debugging comments often involved colorful phrases such as:
This fucking thing doesn't work!
Fuckity, fuck, fuck fuck!
Frickfrackinfuck!
Shitty piece of shit!
And the like.
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Kind of funny when you're working on a group project, and something craps out, and my partners see my debugging messages. lol. The majortiy of my classes, I almost always had solo projects, so I never had to worry about that before. Not exactly the most professional, but hey, it works, and it was good for a laugh.
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Stupid string probably just refers to that, it's a stupid string.
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I attempted to google this, and although I found a few references to stupid string, I don't think 'stupid string' is necessarily a specific phrase. Strings tend to just be stupid sometimes, especially a pain when it comes to trying to modify them. In some languages, strings aren't mutable (not easily manipulated) unless you use specific string functions.
As for in-game, I don't think I've personally witnessed this yet. But I have seen some debugging comments in Maxian code before with some funny messages.
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