"operationalized"
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Apparently this is what I have been doing when I make code work.
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Apparently this is what I have been doing when I make code work.
astanton1978 wrote:
Apparently this is what I have been doing when I make code work.
So, was the previous state "buggered"?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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astanton1978 wrote:
Apparently this is what I have been doing when I make code work.
So, was the previous state "buggered"?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Yes. :laugh:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Apparently this is what I have been doing when I make code work.
This is a term I recognize from my undergraduate days, and it doesn't come from computers. It's a term from behavioristic psychology. It's used to describe the process of converting a general description of a behavior which may include reference to an internal state of an organism (e.g. an emotion) to a specific description of actions, or operations, which the organism perfoms that give evidence of its internal state ("The rat is scared of getting shocked" becomes "the rat resisted being pushed off the platform onto the electrically wired grid to the point of hanging by its claws to the plunger which was forcing it off the platform"). When you write code, you are operationalizing a technical specification. So, it's accurate, but we didn't need to import new terms from psychobabble, we have enough babble of our own :laugh: