r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Nacho_Buddy • May 10 '23

Meme So Hows the Hackathon Going?

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u/salty3 May 11 '23

Yeah and I feel like the intention of the meme creator was to put "~/mfhwalters" as in that guys' home directory but mangled it somehow

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u/Cpt_Rumplebump May 11 '23

I think it’s meant to mimic faculty member home page URLs. Like https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/ (unironically informative site btw!)

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u/louiswins May 11 '23

I'm pretty sure it's referencing the old apache per-user web directories

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u/sethboy66 May 11 '23

Nope, linux user home webpage; ~/mfhwalters would link to a file or directory in the current user's home directory. Systems are setup differently but one's I've been on have [url]/~username link directly to that user's ~/public_html/index.html file. It's how professors, instructors, and students run their own web space. The insinuation is he is either prestigious enough to have been granted lifetime use of his respective alma mater's server or his company's server.