Getting Colorful

  • Charles Kincaid (5/10/2010)


    majorbloodnock (5/10/2010)


    That said, in the UK, we also use the more vernacular form, where, instead of "cigarettes", we talk about "fags", hence the concept of "fag packet engineering". However, I can easily see the problems of exporting the term "fagware" to the US; it might well be adopted, but I shudder to think of the answer if an American were called upon to explain the meaning......

    This product might do well in Greenwich Village.

  • majorbloodnock (5/12/2010)


    Michael Meierruth (5/12/2010)


    And meaning of ID TEN T?

    Sounds like identity.

    But where exactly is the problem?

    If you write ten in its numeric form, you end up with ID 10 T (or ID10T without the spaces)

    Thank You Majorbloodnock, guess I need to work on my explaintions.

  • David Webb-200187 (5/10/2010)


    a PIG program (production if good)

    ...and if not quite "Good", you just apply some lipstick as suggested by a previous poster...

  • "pebkac" (problem exists between keyboard and chair) ... we call that a "picnic" problem (problem in chair, not in computer)

    🙂

    Chris

  • Among Russian programmers there was a phrase that I can translate as “licking the code”. Just like cat or dog lick themselves in order to get clean, programmers lick their code for the same reason.

    When I first used this phrase here in US I’ve got a fountain of jokes – from “Did you use proper mouthwash?” to “Were you gentle while licking your private methods?”

    So, I don’t use this phrase any more…

    --Vadim R.

  • rVadim (5/12/2010)


    Among Russian programmers there was a phrase that I can translate as “licking the code”. Just like cat or dog lick themselves in order to get clean, programmers lick their code for the same reason.

    When I first used this phrase here in US I’ve got a fountain of jokes – from “Did you use proper mouthwash?” to “Were you gentle while licking your private methods?”

    So, I don’t use this phrase any more…

    He, he. Like it.

    Mind you, it doesn't sound too hygienic. One could easily catch a bug and end up down the VB clinic.....

    😀

    Semper in excretia, suus solum profundum variat

  • Most of my colourful descriptions of software are various shades of brown.

    --
    Scott

  • Scott-144766 (5/13/2010)


    Most of my colourful descriptions of software are various shades of brown.

    That is great. Good thing my coffee cup was empty so I didn't spit any on the monitor.

  • Often, when asked how I change the appearance of data, such as dates or people's names, I describe that as using smoke and mirrors. I had to be more cautious about that when someone asked me where she could obtain the program "Smoke & Mirrors".

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