[sdiy] Re: Walsh Generator Release!!!

[Tim Ressel]

Yes, Magnus, I have a well-read copy of the Hacker's
Dictionary. You don't actually think any of my
material is original, do ya?  :-)

--TR

--- Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se> wrote:
> Well, it is actually older than that... if you look
> into The New
> Hacker's Dictionary compiled by Eric S. Raymond you
> will learn that:
> 
> waver a dead chicken v. To perform a ritual in the
> direction of
> crashed software or hardware that one beleives to be
> futile but is
> nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied
> that an
> appropriate degree of effort has been expended.
> "I'll wave a dead
> chicken over that source code, but I really think
> we've run into an OS
> but." Compare voodoo programming, rain dance.
> 
> This does not contradict what you said, but it is
> older.
> 
> The dictionary is online, but I do recommend that
> you get the book,
> and lie down and read some of it when you have an
> agonizing problem.
> You will find that you enlarge your vocabulary, make
> yourself
> understood by peers and get better respect by
> management since now
> they do not understand what you say... ;O)
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus


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