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?
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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.
Real programmers use butterflies
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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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'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;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[^]
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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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/ \ / \ ^
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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;Agile, sprint, nuget.
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just as a general programming term, "foobar" which i think probably means something, but also doesn't. lorum foobar ipsum baz
Real programmers use butterflies
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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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/ \ / \ ^
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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?
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An etymology was published in IETF RFC 3092 which although it had a publish date of 20010401 is still a fun read... RFC 3092: Etymology of 'Foo' - The RFC Archive[^]
haha neat, thanks
Real programmers use butterflies
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An etymology was published in IETF RFC 3092 which although it had a publish date of 20010401 is still a fun read... RFC 3092: Etymology of 'Foo' - The RFC Archive[^]
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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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/ \ / \ ^
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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:
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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:
___ ___
/ \ / \ ^
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | 6-8 feet
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| | | | | |
| | | | | V
\___/ \___/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:
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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:
___ ___
/ \ / \ ^
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | 6-8 feet
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| | | | | |
| | | | | V
\___/ \___/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:
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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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'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:
___ ___
/ \ / \ ^
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | 6-8 feet
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| | | | | |
| | | | | V
\___/ \___/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;Festoon: a chain or garland of flowers, leaves, or ribbons, hung in a curve as a decoration. :-D
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I was a press operator for a few years. In our plant we call festoons dancers. The printing industry is full of weird words/phrases. Dampener (dampner?), bustle wheels, cuim rollers, and so on.
"Nip rollers" :snicker:
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just as a general programming term, "foobar" which i think probably means something, but also doesn't. lorum foobar ipsum baz
Real programmers use butterflies
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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:
___ ___
/ \ / \ ^
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | 6-8 feet
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | V
\___/ \___/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?
agnostic - as in, our server app doesn't have apriori knowledge about what gets plugged in into it (as long as its API conforms to a standard) or who communicates with it (as long as are properly oauth'd in).
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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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.
I believe the R stands for recognition... F'd Up Beyond All Recognition
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
agnostic - as in, our server app doesn't have apriori knowledge about what gets plugged in into it (as long as its API conforms to a standard) or who communicates with it (as long as are properly oauth'd in).
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
I've had to use atheist API's before - the server wouldn't allow your connection, no matter what you tried.
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