π The synergistic thread of data-driven agile community-based buzzwords leveraged to present a business and personal advantage
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No, that's the UKism for line.
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Unhandled Exception : ArgumentException Could not parse input.
This is why @xaade as a service will never take off. Too buggy.
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Isn't that Brazil?
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Nuts talk?
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brazil is huehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehue
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Que?
It's all in the bad jokes topic.
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-bad-jokes-topic/48503/83?u=boomzilla
...and goes from there in typical TDWTF fashion.
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Yes, I was drawing attention to this similarity. Well done.
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I WIN!!!
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Gotcha.
"Go tend the rabbits" is definitely an inside joke, but I use it so much in my personal life that it has become common place for me to the point that I forget it is a bit obscure.
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I googled the phrase and then remembered it. Just not something on the tip of my tongue.
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I use it almost daily. Usually in the context of, "If he does X, I will take that motherfucker to go tend the rabbits."
I am an angry person.
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"Go tend the rabbits" is definitely an inside joke
Are people that oblivious? Or is good literature just being ignored now? Next thing you know, firemen will be starting the fires.
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Or is good literature just being ignored now?
The UK education system doesn't help matters by forcing children to tear good literature apart to try and find some hidden meaning that the author might have left there, although the author was more likely only interested in writing a cool story, and couldn't give a flying fuck what bullshit people read into it.
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@abarker said:
Are people that oblivious? Or is good literature just being ignored now?
Yes and yes.
Yeah, those were just rhetorical questions to set up the last line.
Next thing you know, firemen will be starting the fires.
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I chose to ignore the last part. I feel like being annoying today.
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Are people that oblivious? Or is good literature just being ignored now?
Been...eh...over 20 years since I read that book.
Next thing you know, firemen will be starting the fires.
My daughter just started reading that one.
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Fixture is a meaningless word.
the only definitions i know of it are:
- A faucet
- a set of test data to be loaded in isolation into a DAO adaptor for an integration test.
of the two the first makes much more sense than the second.
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The latter is more or less what I was trying to pin down. But some frameworks use it to mean "a class containing tests"
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yeah. thats why i avoid using the word. too many people misuse it to keep clear and accurate communication. when using that word in a technical context.
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@Yamikuronue said:
Fixture is a meaningless word.
the only definitions i know of it are:- A
faucettap - a set of test data to be loaded in isolation into a DAO adaptor for an integration test.
It's also a term often used for describing sporting events, especiallysoccerfootball. But that might be a UKian thing.
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A faucet
I believe that you also know about a light fixture but forgot to mention it.
But that might be a UKian thing.
I'm not familiar with it, so I'm inclined to agree.
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One might also use it to refer to someone who is a regular. For instance, Norm is a fixture at Cheers. Could be expanded to anything that is more than commonly present.
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@Yamikuronue said:
Fixture is a meaningless word.
the only definitions i know of it are:- A faucet or other plumbing outlets such as shower heads
- a set of test data to be loaded in isolation into a DAO adaptor for an integration test.
- A component used for decoratively providing electricity to light bulbs. Examples include: chandeliers, sconces, can lights, pendant lights, etc.
Edit: Oh, look. A regression.
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here (a spanish talking country) the arrangement of the matchs is called fixture
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Edit: Oh, look. A regression.
Oh look, an Onyx. I liked your comment because I thought you were punning on Regression meaning so many different things that now you were using it to mean Hanzo'd. Then I saw the bug report.
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I believe that you also know about a light fixture but forgot to mention it.
oh. yeah. those too.
of the
twothree the first and third makes much more sense than the second
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FaaS is the gateway to greenlighting the Secure IoT.
And multi-mediation is the future of all webbing.
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Fuck synergy and synergies and synergise.
Synergies is my company's preferred euphemism for 'layoffs'."We have purchased company y, and anticipate that by the end of the acquisition we will have achieved x in savings due to synergies"
or "We are merging group x and z under unified management and are seeking synergies"
It looks like you're trying to optimize and improve what both groups do by combining the best of both worlds, but in reality the wall always remains up, but some redundant-looking titles get axed.
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responding to @Polygeekery on rabbit tending...
I googled the phrase and then remembered it. Just not something on the tip of my tongue.
forty years since reading this??
And googling... first three are ridiculous, and then #4, this thread, next alt-ending fan fiction...
Wikipedia doesn't help with the phrase... but has these tidbits on movies (emphasis mine):
The first adaptation was in 1939, two years after the publication of the novella, and starred Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, with Burgess Meredith as George, and was directed by Lewis Milestone.[24] It was nominated for four Oscars.[24]
A TV version, produced by David Susskind in 1968, starred George Segal as George, Nicol Williamson as Lennie, Will Geer as Candy, Moses Gunn as Crooks, and Don Gordon and Joey Heatherton as Curley and his wife.[25]
Context:
I am old enough to remember the panel game shows with bunches of celebrity guests and I would wonder, who are these people, why are they famous? not in the bad way, curiousityI find it very cool to find out the impactful things they did to that made them famous (or noteworthy).
I can't wait to find that '68 movie version...
Filed under: William Conrad was more than just a fat detective.
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It does not need some ouroboros of a term.
OaaS β Ouroboros as a Service
Eat yourself in the cloud
with our simple, state-of-the-art API
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Why would I want a giant space poop as a service?
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All Google gives me is Back, Sackn Crack.
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It would probably be best to not turn Safe Search off.
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I use Dale Gribble for all my
sackfiring needs, such as they are.
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some hidden meaning that the author might have left there
Oh, that was before when there was some sanity.
We jumped the shark since then.
Now, art appreciation is more about what hidden meaning the viewer "left" when viewing it, before the viewed it?
Yeah, it makes about that much sense.
Forward speaking, now it's about whatever you personally see in the art. Screw the author, art appreciation is about you.
I wonder, how do people expect to communicate, when viewing communication is about what the listener wants to hear?
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I wonder, how do people expect to communicate, when viewing communication is about what the listener wants to hear?
See! I told you that you can't possibly understand what it's like to be me!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBQvjtXR4qA
I don't actually mind the sound of this song. But those lyrics!
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Your empathy just robs me of the uniqueness of my feelings and invalidates me as a person... you bully.
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I have no empathy for someone with a successful band crying that life is hard because no one understands them. No one understands anyone. So what?
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I was recently contacted by a recruiter for a job with a well known large company. I've just found the original job advert on their website and the description is buzzword central:
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
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When I told the telecommunications company, Optus, that I was transferring my accounts to its rival, Telstra, a reply came addressed Dear Valued Customer. They asked me to accept our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience or frustration the billing issue, raised may have caused. Optus constantly strives to give our customer's (sic) our best service experience and it is of some concern to us to hear that your expectations were not met by Optus in this instance.
It is not the misplaced comma and apostrophe that kills these sentences. It's the billing issue, service experience; and the glue in the next sentence: constantly strives, some concern to us, in this instance. The aim is to sound polite and helpful, but the result is unctuous, unhelpful and depressing. You cannot get through such prose. And subliminally at least, that is the bigger message: you cannot succeed in this. Submit. Roll over. The language of corporations is like a vampire without fangs; it has no venom or bite but you don't want it hanging off your neck just the same.
Modern public language handcuffs words to action, ideas to matter, the pure thought to the dirty deed. It collapses the categories for the sake of convenience. What you think and what you are become one, which is the team, where everyone has learned to think the same thoughts, or at least within the same parameters. If these parameters are defined by what is called Knowledge Management (KM) very likely they encompass a knowledge entity. Knowledge entities are incomplete if they do not cultivate a dialog (sic) between the members of the community of practice to advance the defining and refining of a socially constructed process. Knowledge Management is one more mutant form of the managerialism that walks blithely over a whole tradition of Western philosophy, crushing all subtleties and distinctions.
Verbs are ground out of existence, nouns driven into service as a substitute for them; all but a few adjectives (robust, vibrant, enhanced) are abandoned along with metaphors because they are untidy distractions from the main objective, which is a serviceable instrument of communication. "First the adjectives wither, then the verbs", Elias Canetti said.
All elegance and gravity has gone from public language, and all its light-footed potential to intrigue, delight and stimulate our hearts and minds. We use language to deal with our moral and political dilemmas, but not this language. This language is not capable of serious deliberation. It could no more carry a complex argument than it could describe the sound of a nightingale. Listen to it in the political and corporate landscape and you hear noises that our recent ancestors might have taken for Gaelic or Swahili, and we ourselves do not always understand. Even some of those who speak and write it will tell you that they don't know quite what it means. Then again, they do not exactly speak or write so much as implement it.
-Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003. Trenchant, pungent, furious writing. Recommended.
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