New programming jargon you coined

For native speakers of English and other Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) languages, anyway; it sounds like a weird variant of passive voice. There are also SOV, VSO, etc. human languages, though.

hasenj2• 16 years ago

Japanese is SOV (subject-object-verb).

I yoda conditions very much hate!! Crazy they me drive!

But I Japanese like.

philfreo• 16 years ago

Awesome...

"A Duck"

A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention and be removed, thus avoiding unnecessary changes in other aspects of the product.

beagle3• 16 years ago

In Jewish folklore, this is I guess a hundred or two years old, and is called a goat or a sheep:

A man complains to his Rabbi that they have a tiny house and they can't manage with their wife and three kids all in the same room. The rabbi tells him "take your goat and put it in the room as well". The man does as advised, and comes back to the Rabbi two weeks later, complaining even more. The Rabbi tells him "take the goat out". The next time the man sees the Rabbi, he thanks him "We have so much room now that the goat is out".

InclinedPlane• 16 years ago

Sounds like The Admiral's Pipe: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2005/05/12/417064.aspx

thunk• 16 years ago

I recently coined (afaik):

    enbug - v. to program; the opposite of debug

prakashk2• 16 years ago

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there exists enbug.org whose about page (http://enbug.org/AboutThisSite) says:

    The meaning of enbug is the opposite of the word debug, namely, to add errors or defects into software or hardware.

That page was last edited on 2007-03-04.

nuclear_eclipse• 16 years ago

Favorites: Smug, Drug, Chug, and Shrug reports. Will have to remember those...

cwbrandsma• 16 years ago

A buddy and I coined SQL Ejaculation.

Where you use SQL to generate text to be executed by another system...like HTML.

Have you ever seen an entire web site generated by stored procedures. I have. It aint pretty.

beaumartinez• 16 years ago

I hate to write this... But I've seen a few of these "most upvoted" StackOverflow questions posted to HN in the last few days, and, although they are good articles, they are very easily accessed (by which I mean, all you have to do is go to StackOverflow and click on questions, and then on most voted; likely what anyone new to it would do. As programmers, I'm pretty sure most us have visited SO at least once), and hence something most of us would have already seen.

People will see this phenomenon and it'll catch on, and HN will end up like Digg, with the only content posted being "top tens".

nuxi• 16 years ago

reverse polish hungarian notation: char * nameZspl;

ifless if: ptr && (* ptr = 10);

WTF-8: an almost-UTF-8 type of encoding, which possibly cannot be decoded anymore

gangbang of four: an act of cluelessly quoting GoF, Fowler et al.

rhettinger• 16 years ago

Code Prion -

n. a really bad idea dressed-up as a good idea thereby becoming contagious in a way that never seems to die out.

n. memes adopted as a religion by the clueless because "it seems like a great idea" while drowning-out the opposition because the arguments against are subtle.

* "Our object model makes it hard to implement NaNs" -- famous last words before adding hundreds of if_special() checks to your code and transforming your object model into something that defeats your ability to reason about programs by undermining common notions of equality as being reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. If you doubt that identity-implies-equality, then you're infected.

* Most ideas for pre-commit hooks are code prions. If your process depends on crippling a developer's ability to make a check-in, then you're infected.

* "Our dynamic language doesn't implement static language feature X". If you think Ruby and Python need Enums and Interfaces, then you're infected. Those features cost nothing in compiled languages and often only serve to overcome the limitations of those languages.

* "We're making everything clean and pure by deprecating everything we don't like anymore." Hey, it only takes you ten minutes to add the deprecation, who cares if it consumes hundreds of hours of user-time to update their programs or if they stick with an old version just to avoid your deprecation hassles. Better to just document it as obsolete than to inflict pain on a large user base. (By the way, authors of books will hate you too -- it makes their books go out-of-date prematurely). If you think of published APIs as mutable, then you're infected.

* If you think self.assertLessEqual(x, y) is the right way to spell, "assert x<y", then you're infected. Get nose.py or py.test and live free.

* "Everybody knows eval() is an egregious security hole, so you should never use it." Learn to differentiate between trusted and untrusted code; otherwise, your fear will keep you from using your most basic and powerful tools. This code prion is chonic and progressive -- eventually you'll find yourself unable to write "import collections" because someone might have stolen you ssh key, logged into your machine and added their own collections.pyc file which would appear to run normally but actually emails your mother's secret porridge recipe to wikileaks. If you think eval() is evil, you're infected.

New programming jargon you coined

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