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Re:Comtypes: How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love t... by ta12121 on Thursday October 04, 2012 @10:23PM (#4615396)
The title, "How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love the COM" is a reference to the film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". The object taking the place of the atomic bomb in the variant title is COM. To me this implies that the article will describe why people worry about COM and why they're wrong. I did not find it to contain either.

Admittedly I have never seen the movie, which wikipedia describes as a "dark comedy satirizing the nuclear scare". I suspect the article doesn't follow along those lines either.

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Re:Comtypes: How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love t... by hermannj314 on Friday October 05, 2012 @04:40AM (#4616101)
> I have never seen the movie

You should fix that.

In addition, the bomb in question was the result of an ill- conceived Doomsday device to prevent the use of bombs.

In other words, this title suggests that as part of a policy of mutually assured destruction, Microsoft created a device to unleash COM if it ever sensed it was being attacked. They just forgot to tell anyone about the device (why didn't you tell the world!?!) and now we are all living with the fallout.

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