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One of the more serious April 1st RFCs.
OK, there are other serious ones, too, but usually in a more indirect way. You first make a great laugh, then start thinking "But really, there is something to it ...". I love both variants.
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Quote: just as a general programming term, "foobar"
which i think probably means something, but also doesn't.
"foobar" is the sanitized version of "FUBAR", which means "Fouled Up Beyond All Repair". Change the first word to get the original meaning.
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I believe the R stands for recognition... F'd Up Beyond All Recognition
Live long and prosper
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I mean yeah, that's what i figured. I grew up in a military family so i know what FUBAR is. What I mean by probably means something but also doesn't, is when K+R was using it, it was just filler text, despite the meaning of FUBAR
(I also like SNAFU)
Edit: Why the hell did i write Guy Ritchie. I need more coffee
Real programmers use butterflies
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More coffee …. now that I can agree with 
My comment was not for your posting, it was meant for obermd
Guy Ritchie LOL
Live long and prosper
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We work with entities.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Any of them named Aunty[^] ? 
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Really!!! That is funny.
I'll pass it along the team.
I'd rather be phishing!
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All words, in all languages, are silly. They're just noises. It's no wonder cats think we're idiots.
But we probably all have our favourites -- off-hand, "blazer" (the jacket) comes to mind.
In a UI, I don't use words that aren't in the parlance of the users, and I've never worked on programs for users who use weird terms (unlike those in the rag trade, or printing, brewing, etc.)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My industry has been around a long time (Gutenberg of the Bible fame was a founder), so we've got a lot of funky vocabulary.
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Now you're making me jealous.
I want to work where they use silly words, too!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Might I suggest management? They incentivize the go forward time to market the heck out of new words...
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One of my colleagues wrote a video analytics testing application and aptly named it: analtestapp
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Gary Wheeler wrote: What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Deadlines, budgets, user experience, etc.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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When I was a wee lad in the plastic-injection molding business, we used the word, "Gaylord" a lot. I had never heard it used before then. It referred to 2500lb cardboard totes full of resin pellets.
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We have those here too.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
"Have" to? None. However, I can think of 2 "words" off the top of my head that gets my goat, and they've probably been made up by the sample people:
"doco" instead of documentation
"mobo" instead of motherboard.
Fortunately I've never met anyone IRL who's used those when speaking. But they'll get slapped if I ever meet one of them.
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'Doco' I've not seen before. I've seen and used 'docs' as shorthand for "documents".
I've never heard/seen the word 'mobo' used outside of some of the gushier PC magazines.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I use "docs" all the time myself. But "doco" is just...lame. If you want to abbreviate it...that's what "docs" is for, and it's even shorter.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: 'Doco' I've not seen before. I've seen and used 'docs' as shorthand for "documents".
Then you're doing it wrong. It will be Strayan. See below for our most famous shortened word with an O stuck on to the end.
Bottlo[^]
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I've used mobo before. I was hanging out with parts geeks and their gaming rigs for a time and they infected me.
Real programmers use butterflies
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"Flocculate": "cause to form into small clumps or masses."
The reason why pigmented inks have a use by date, and if you ignore that it gets expensive if the "last chance" filter in the printhead gets blocked.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: Flocculate
We go to considerable lengths with our inks for the same reason.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's why I stuck a 5 micron inline filter to protect the 10 micron filter in the printhead from the 2 micron particles suspended in the ink.
Explaining that to the MD took a little longer than I thought was strictly reasonable.
Specifying that 5 micron filter and it's housing as a single mandatory maintenance part (with the attached high-profit price you'd expect) ans a defined replacement schedule did it in the end.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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