Comments on: Reasons to hit programmers http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Venture http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805/comment-page-1#comment-2892 Venture Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:56:38 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805#comment-2892 All verbs can be nouned. All nouns can be verbed. Resistance is useless! All verbs can be nouned. All nouns can be verbed.

Resistance is useless!

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805/comment-page-1#comment-2889 Michael Lonie Sat, 04 Mar 2006 06:02:20 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805#comment-2889 Really, what else can you expect from people who, if asked to count up to ten, start counting with zero? Really, what else can you expect from people who, if asked to count up to ten, start counting with zero?

]]> By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805/comment-page-1#comment-2882 Meryl Yourish Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:55:17 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805#comment-2882 I'd love to be able to take credit for it, Veeshir, but I learned that phrase from Terry McGarry, back when we were both in the Waverly Writer's Workshop. Now she's on <a href="http://www.sff.net/people/terry_mcgarry/inprint.htm" rel="nofollow">bookshelf stores</a> everywhere. I’d love to be able to take credit for it, Veeshir, but I learned that phrase from Terry McGarry, back when we were both in the Waverly Writer’s Workshop.

Now she’s on bookshelf stores everywhere.

]]> By: Veeshir http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805/comment-page-1#comment-2871 Veeshir Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:28:08 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805#comment-2871 <b>Stop verbing my nouns!</b> I would just like to point out how much I love that sentence. That's just funny. Stop verbing my nouns!

I would just like to point out how much I love that sentence. That’s just funny.

]]> By: cond0010 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805/comment-page-1#comment-2865 cond0010 Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:15:39 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805#comment-2865 Here's something from way out in left field, Meryl - Nullable rhymes with gullible. Ya think that programmers may have altered it slightly to avoid the 'L-user' phenomenon? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luser gee - I hope I'm not starting a meme here... :) Here’s something from way out in left field, Meryl -

Nullable rhymes with gullible. Ya think that programmers may have altered it slightly to avoid the ‘L-user’ phenomenon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luser

gee – I hope I’m not starting a meme here… :)

]]> By: Bob http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805/comment-page-1#comment-2860 Bob Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:01:42 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805#comment-2860 Meryl - I agree with the "tribal culture" comment. For those of us who've worked in IT for many years, it's very easy to slip into "tech-ese" when describing something to the average layman. Case in point. Was instructing my Dad on usage of his first-ever PC and during the course of describing how Windows works, the phrase "default settings" came up. Classic "deer-in-the-headlights" look followed by "What does not paying a bank note have to do with the settings on my computer?" Once I stopped laughing at myself, it was easy...but lordy, the trouble words can get you into!! Bob Meryl -

I agree with the “tribal culture” comment. For those of us who’ve worked in IT for many years, it’s very easy to slip into “tech-ese” when describing something to the average layman.

Case in point. Was instructing my Dad on usage of his first-ever PC and during the course of describing how Windows works, the phrase “default settings” came up.

Classic “deer-in-the-headlights” look followed by “What does not paying a bank note have to do with the settings on my computer?” Once I stopped laughing at myself, it was easy…but lordy, the trouble words can get you into!!

Bob

]]> By: Alan Furman http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805/comment-page-1#comment-2858 Alan Furman Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:34:46 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805#comment-2858 Decades ago, the programming language LISP was held in exceptional reverence among geeks. It denotes anything that is null, empty, uninitialized, or logically false "nil". Severely affected programmers would say "T" and "nil" to each other in place of "yes" and "no." So there is your explanation: tribal culture. Decades ago, the programming language LISP was held in exceptional reverence among geeks. It denotes anything that is null, empty, uninitialized, or logically false “nil”. Severely affected programmers would say “T” and “nil” to each other in place of “yes” and “no.”

So there is your explanation: tribal culture.

]]> By: David Gerstman http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805/comment-page-1#comment-2854 David Gerstman Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:56:14 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/02/805#comment-2854 Uh, Meryl, sorry for being a geeky stickler, but shouldn't you have opened your rant with a tag? Unmatched tags really bug the programmer in me. :-) Uh, Meryl, sorry for being a geeky stickler, but shouldn’t you have opened your rant with a tag? Unmatched tags really bug the programmer in me.
:-)

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