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;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
Live long and prosper
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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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I've had to use atheist API's before - the server wouldn't allow your connection, no matter what you tried.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
the server wouldn't allow your connection, no matter what you tried.
Hmmm. That waitress in the bar last night was an atheist. I had no idea!
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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Gary Wheeler wrote:
the server wouldn't allow your connection, no matter what you tried.
Hmmm. That waitress in the bar last night was an atheist. I had no idea!
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.
Maybe it was your feet of clay. Next time, wear better shoes :-D .
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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 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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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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FUBAR (disambiguation) - Wikipedia[^] The alternative spelling "foobar" I believe got its start in The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. They used the names
fooandbara lot in their examples.Software Zen:
delete this;No, foo and bar, and blah, zoo, and a bunch of other silly short words come from the Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual, copyright 1962. God I'm getting old.
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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
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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No, foo and bar, and blah, zoo, and a bunch of other silly short words come from the Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual, copyright 1962. God I'm getting old.
So that's where K&R got them.
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No, foo and bar, and blah, zoo, and a bunch of other silly short words come from the Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual, copyright 1962. God I'm getting old.
I kind of want to buy it, just for posterity's sake.