[uudecoded]

This literally caused me to have a bad taste in my mouth when I was in high school:

My yearbook advisor sent yahoo mail and asked what I would like to be picked up at Starbucks for an early morning meeting the next day.

"Caramel Mocha, thank you!", I replied.

The next morning, I was surprised with an undrinkable "Caramel espresso" - an espresso with a pump of caramel syrup. I thought she had made an innocent mistake and was shocked to see there was in fact a difference between my sent text and her received text. I had no explanation.

After some years in web dev, and encountering this article, I realized that, as the precursor to javascript - the script type "mocha" was valid, so yahoo just went ahead and replaced all references to mocha with something that probably seemed innocuous to a junior developer - except it wasn't.

[dehrmann]

> shocked to see there was in fact a difference between my sent text and her received text.

Sounds like something Gilfoyle's AI from Silicon Valley would do.

> I had no explanation.

The AI broke modern encryption in order to implement lossy compression.

[mega_dingus]

+1 for proper use of "literally"

[meltyness]

This concoction is "the regular" for me.

[sdwr]

When I worked at starbucks I loved that shit! 2 shots of blonde espresso, a pump of caramel and a liiittle bit of steamed half+half. Thinking about it now makes me feel sick though.

[dehrmann]

Is that not just a caramel macchiato?

[sdwr]

Huh, yeah. Guess I should have read the drink book a little more carefully :D

[iamtheworstdev]

are you aware that it's undrinkable? ;-)