Placeholder things

Related: This blog post.

People tend to use placeholder things when their working on things. I'm a turbo nerd from Jupiter, so I find these things interesting.

A lot of the times I think of using these things in a programming context, but they're not limited to just that.

(These are ones that I use personally, although they might be inspired by other's)

Numbers

• 42

  This is a reference to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The meaning of life and everything in the universe, and also convenient to type if you need a looks-kind-of-weird number that's larger than 10.

• 69

  Nice.

• 101

  I use this one For "lol", which needs no introduction.

• 123

  I use 123 a lot more than you might think. It has no special significance or reference, it's just easy to type.

• 1337

  Stands for "leet" for everyone who was part of the internet during a very special time. I guess it's also known by other people, but I like to feel special thinking that the kids don't know what 1337 stand for.

• 3266

  This is a nostalgic number that I don't see anyone else using besides myself. In short, the game Sonic Adventure 2 Battle has a "chao garden" mini game where you raise these little pets called "chao". You can raise a chao's stats, and there's an extremely difficult method to get the highest possible stat of 3266.

Strings

• This is the automated message system

  Where can be anything, like Tim or Play or whatever. This is one of the first placeholders I came up with way way back when I started programming, and I still use it frequently when I need a sentence.

• so long and thanks for all the fish

• thanks

  I use this one surprisingly often. It's a reference, again, to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I use "thanks" more often than the whole thing.

• This is the end of the world as we know it

  This is one that I've only recently started using, but it's pretty nice to type. You might think it's a reference to This REM song, but I always think about the old The End of The World flash animation when typing it; yeah I was surprised that there was a wikipedia article about it too. I've also been known to shorten it to "This is" and "This is the end".

• For dark is the suede

  This is a reference to a scene from the movie Mars Attacks! (super funny you should watch it). I usually only type what's above, but the full quote is, "All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest."

• Hey there!

  I use this in place of "Hello, World!" a lot of the time, because I'm a hipster that can't just use the traditional phrasing.

• Yo mamma

  If I'm feeling cheeky.

Identifiers

• test

  Probably one of the most common placeholder identifiers I use. If I need a quick thing to test a variable or a function or even a file name, it's almost always going to be "test".

• bitch

  As per long personal tradition, I only use the bitch variable in times of deep frustrating debugging.

• ass

  Yeah it's more vulgarity, but fuck you. I came up with this one trying to type "add" and missing the 'd' key one key to the left. Used for functions more than variables.

  Holy shit dude this is so much nicer to type on oh my god!