Silly word you have to use in a UI
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'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:
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\___/ \___/There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom. For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me. What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Software Zen:
delete this;One of my colleagues wrote a video analytics testing application and aptly named it: analtestapp :-\
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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.)
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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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'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:
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\___/ \___/There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom. For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me. What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Deadlines, budgets, user experience, etc.
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Not to be confused with FUBAR. :) (And definitely not to be sung to the tune of a certain "Electric Six" song[^]. "I wanna take you to a foo bar!")
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'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:
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\___/ \___/There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom. For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me. What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Software Zen:
delete this;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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCO)" instead of documentation "[mobo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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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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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCO)" instead of documentation "[mobo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
'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.
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'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:
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\___/ \___/There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom. For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me. What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Software Zen:
delete this;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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Really!!! That is funny. I'll pass it along the team.
I'd rather be phishing!
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'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:
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\___/ \___/There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom. For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me. What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Software Zen:
delete this;"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.
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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.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Flocculate
:-D We go to considerable lengths with our inks for the same reason.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Flocculate
:-D We go to considerable lengths with our inks for the same reason.
Software Zen:
delete this;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. :-D
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'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:
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\___/ \___/There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom. For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me. What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Software Zen:
delete this;Your drawing made me think of the photolab where I had a summer job in my student days - years before the arrival of digital cameras. Prints were made by exposing the film frames one by one, side by side onto a strip of photosensitive paper. A roll of such a paper strip would hold several hundred photos. After exposure, in a darkroom, the strip was pulled over a roller into a container of developer chemicals - down and up, down and up, three or four sets of rollers (like in the drawing). The next roller took it over to a container with a stop bath, then to another one removing all undeveloped silver. (This would be the black&white process; it was in fact a color print developer, which requires several extra baths.) At least eight to ten paper strips was pulled over the rollers, side by side. Those people handling the developer machine referred to it as the "sprosser". When I asked where that name came from, they didn't have a clue. It's just the name of it. This was in Norway, and the Norwegian word for "rung" is "sprosse", so I figured that it was the rollers (sort of rungs, sprosser) that had given name to the machine. ... until I heard one of the certified engineers referring to it as the "prosser", and a little later in a somewhat more formal setting as the "processor" ("processing" a print was a common term in those days for putting a photosensitive paper through those chemical processes). Aha! So when chatting with the others (who mostly had no formal education in the field, they had only learned to do the right moves), I started referring to the machine as the "prosser", not the "sprosser". I was corrected on that: It is called a "sprosser"! My attempts to explain that is was a processor, "prosser" being a shortform, was bluntly rejected as academic bullshit from a youngster who thought he could teach people with many years experience the name of things! ... So I went back to calling it a "sprosser" for the duration of the summer job, keeping it as a story to tell many years later :-)
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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.
Software Zen:
delete this;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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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!
Might I suggest management? They incentivize the go forward time to market the heck out of new words...
Software Zen:
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Your drawing made me think of the photolab where I had a summer job in my student days - years before the arrival of digital cameras. Prints were made by exposing the film frames one by one, side by side onto a strip of photosensitive paper. A roll of such a paper strip would hold several hundred photos. After exposure, in a darkroom, the strip was pulled over a roller into a container of developer chemicals - down and up, down and up, three or four sets of rollers (like in the drawing). The next roller took it over to a container with a stop bath, then to another one removing all undeveloped silver. (This would be the black&white process; it was in fact a color print developer, which requires several extra baths.) At least eight to ten paper strips was pulled over the rollers, side by side. Those people handling the developer machine referred to it as the "sprosser". When I asked where that name came from, they didn't have a clue. It's just the name of it. This was in Norway, and the Norwegian word for "rung" is "sprosse", so I figured that it was the rollers (sort of rungs, sprosser) that had given name to the machine. ... until I heard one of the certified engineers referring to it as the "prosser", and a little later in a somewhat more formal setting as the "processor" ("processing" a print was a common term in those days for putting a photosensitive paper through those chemical processes). Aha! So when chatting with the others (who mostly had no formal education in the field, they had only learned to do the right moves), I started referring to the machine as the "prosser", not the "sprosser". I was corrected on that: It is called a "sprosser"! My attempts to explain that is was a processor, "prosser" being a shortform, was bluntly rejected as academic bullshit from a youngster who thought he could teach people with many years experience the name of things! ... So I went back to calling it a "sprosser" for the duration of the summer job, keeping it as a story to tell many years later :-)
Cool story; thanks! Like you, I've reached an age where I enjoy telling the old war stories as much I do writing new ones.
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'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:
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| | | | | 6-8 feet
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\___/ \___/There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom. For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me. What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Software Zen:
delete this;I thought festoon meant to adorn with flowers or garlands, or even the just the garland itself. I guess your printing press is festooned with garlands of rollers.
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I thought festoon meant to adorn with flowers or garlands, or even the just the garland itself. I guess your printing press is festooned with garlands of rollers.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:
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| | | | | 6-8 feet
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\___/ \___/There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom. For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me. What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Software Zen:
delete this;Did you ever react to the term OCR - Optical Character Recognition? What is "optical" about comparing bitmaps of scanned images, sliding them up and down, scaling them, skewing them to make them match some target bitmap? There is no optics whatsoever involved! In the old days, OCR was performed by pulling physical masks over the printed text - not scanned/digitized, but the hardcopy printout. After advancing the physical copy to the next character, you slid a black band of masks across it, with cutouts for each character. If the black print character matched the cutout perfectly, then it would be all black and the photocell picking up the reflected light (or rather: the lack of it) would flag the position of the mask band as the most likely character. (The most fancy systems displayed the mask through a zoom lens to project the mask onto the physical print, so that it could be matched to different font sizes.) Then the next test was performed, with a white mask band that was slid across the printed character, and the the cutouts inicated where there was not supposed to be ink. Say, if a vertical slot in the first band could match either a T or an I (assume sans serif), a cutout for the flanges of the T could indicate to the phototocel that this is indeed an I (all white), or is a T (lower reflection due to the horizontal line of the T being black through the cutouts. This was the REAL Optical Character Recognition! I have had quite a few youngsters staring open-mouthed at me when I explain this to 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.
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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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCO)" instead of documentation "[mobo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
I've used mobo before. I was hanging out with parts geeks and their gaming rigs for a time and they infected me.
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