Acronyms and expressions -- give us your best!
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A guy who I used to work with had two infamous sayings. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago and left a huge gap here, but his wit and wisdom did not go to the grave with him. Two of the best: ~ If you're not causing production problems, you're not doing anything. (supervisor-types weren't fans of that one) ~ IIWD2WISBD2U * If it was difficult to write, it should be difficult to understand. [This, coming from one of two Computer Engineering folks, with everyone else in the shop holding DP/business degrees.] (Lazy developers who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag with a hole in it (or who had yet to master Google) were not particularly fond of that one)
LMGBTYOT - Let me get back to you on that was one of our standard replies when undergoing Software Process certification
emilG "Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." - Alan Perlis
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A guy who I used to work with had two infamous sayings. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago and left a huge gap here, but his wit and wisdom did not go to the grave with him. Two of the best: ~ If you're not causing production problems, you're not doing anything. (supervisor-types weren't fans of that one) ~ IIWD2WISBD2U * If it was difficult to write, it should be difficult to understand. [This, coming from one of two Computer Engineering folks, with everyone else in the shop holding DP/business degrees.] (Lazy developers who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag with a hole in it (or who had yet to master Google) were not particularly fond of that one)
One of my personal favourites is Recto-Cranial Invert. It means the same as a**hole, but sounds almost medical. :)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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One of my personal favourites is Recto-Cranial Invert. It means the same as a**hole, but sounds almost medical. :)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
A scary number of moons ago, I was playing in a university (field) hockey team. One of my teammates, with some justification, called the umpire a "myopic catatonic". He got away with it because the umpire didn't understand. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A guy who I used to work with had two infamous sayings. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago and left a huge gap here, but his wit and wisdom did not go to the grave with him. Two of the best: ~ If you're not causing production problems, you're not doing anything. (supervisor-types weren't fans of that one) ~ IIWD2WISBD2U * If it was difficult to write, it should be difficult to understand. [This, coming from one of two Computer Engineering folks, with everyone else in the shop holding DP/business degrees.] (Lazy developers who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag with a hole in it (or who had yet to master Google) were not particularly fond of that one)
Lou Holtz, the old football coach, says, "I would agree with you but then we'd both be wrong."
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TLA - three letter acronym
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A guy who I used to work with had two infamous sayings. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago and left a huge gap here, but his wit and wisdom did not go to the grave with him. Two of the best: ~ If you're not causing production problems, you're not doing anything. (supervisor-types weren't fans of that one) ~ IIWD2WISBD2U * If it was difficult to write, it should be difficult to understand. [This, coming from one of two Computer Engineering folks, with everyone else in the shop holding DP/business degrees.] (Lazy developers who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag with a hole in it (or who had yet to master Google) were not particularly fond of that one)
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No, I work for a contractor at a utility company.
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FORD - Found On Road, Dead.
F'd over rebuilt Dodge - don't forget that one
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I never worked at IBM, but have been told that they have this "official" term "TF", for "Temporary Fix". The "temporary" element sometimes was so flexible that some fixes were internally referred to as "PTF" - Permanent Temporary Fixes.
IBM - I've Been Moved
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IBM - I've Been Moved
IBM - Inferior But Marketable
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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A guy who I used to work with had two infamous sayings. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago and left a huge gap here, but his wit and wisdom did not go to the grave with him. Two of the best: ~ If you're not causing production problems, you're not doing anything. (supervisor-types weren't fans of that one) ~ IIWD2WISBD2U * If it was difficult to write, it should be difficult to understand. [This, coming from one of two Computer Engineering folks, with everyone else in the shop holding DP/business degrees.] (Lazy developers who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag with a hole in it (or who had yet to master Google) were not particularly fond of that one)
FUD - fear, uncertainty and doubt - an old IBM acronym.
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A guy who I used to work with had two infamous sayings. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago and left a huge gap here, but his wit and wisdom did not go to the grave with him. Two of the best: ~ If you're not causing production problems, you're not doing anything. (supervisor-types weren't fans of that one) ~ IIWD2WISBD2U * If it was difficult to write, it should be difficult to understand. [This, coming from one of two Computer Engineering folks, with everyone else in the shop holding DP/business degrees.] (Lazy developers who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag with a hole in it (or who had yet to master Google) were not particularly fond of that one)
Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers Association Produces Profit Losing Entity Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics Will Install Needless Data On Whole System and of course I Blame Microsoft
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IBM - Inferior But Marketable
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
If you've got a copy of the original Ted Nelson scrapbook that introduced the 'hypertext' concept (this was in the late 1970s), Computer Lib / Dream Machines, there is a long list of IBM deabbreviations. My copy is deep down in a pile in my basement, but of those I rememeber (without digging it up) is 'Itsy Bitsy Machines' and 'It's Better Manually'.
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I use SNAFU and FUBAR both. Still.
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The 7Ps would have saved a bunch of work throughout the years: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance!
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
Oh! 7 Ps. We only used 6...
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.