Neologism: Stop
stop - adjective, humorous - Golang code written in a very un-Go-like style.
Example: "The data structure in the new protocol shim was written with a very stop design pattern."
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Neologism: Reality segmentation violation
reality segmentation violation - noun phrase - A syndrome in which someone is so deep inside their own little world that any utterly mundane activity can provoke a combination of emotional upset, anger, confusion because they simply never think about it. In children this phenomenon also typically includes running to authority figures to inform on someone in the most agitated way possible. This is bewildering to just about anyone nearby who is not focused solely on their own little worlds.
A sample stack trace of a reality segmentation violation:
A: "Hey - you pooped in the bathroom!"
B: "Yes.... and?"
A: "But but …
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Neologism: Whistle-drowning
whistle-drowning - "Whistle-drowning is designed to flood the public (with) a flurry of allegations that make it very difficult to concentrate on the important questions." The antonym of whistle-blowing.
source: Zeynep Tufekci, 2016.ev
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Neologism: Cigarette principle
cigarette principle - noun phrase - The phenomenon in which, if you want something to happen sooner, you should do something that will immediately inconvenience you during the act of that something occurring. Comes originally from the act of making a public transit bus arrive faster by lighting up a cigarette, which would of course cause you to ditch the smoke, dig out your bus pass or change, board and pay for the ride. Generalizes effectively.
h/t: Mom
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Neologism: Leaning Tower of Hangout
Leaning Tower of Hangout - noun phrase - The covid-19 quarantine phenomenon in which one discovers a stack of hangouts on one's work calendar, all for the exact same time, all flagged as required, all scheduled while you were asleep the night before.
ref, Towers of Hanoi.
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Neologism: Code Puce
code puce - noun phrase - An IT or ops situation in which the software installed in production is one version and the management system expects a different version. This results in a situation in which everything is running more or less smoothly, and at the same time everything in the monitoring system is going bonkers. Compare with code red, code blue, and so forth.
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Neologism: Cave diving
cave diving - noun phrase - The act of tunneling through multiple VPNs, bastion hosts, and chokepoints to access some network assets, usually production infrastructure in a more restricted network. Less hazardous than but just as easy to screw up as real life cave diving.
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Neologism: Software installation roulette
software installation roulette - The practice of piping the output of a web browser or other HTTP tool directly through a system shell, usually as root to install something important. The danger is that you don't know if the shell script has anything nefarious in it (such as rm -rf / or the installation of a rootkit) and by the time you find out it's far too late.
For example: sudo bash -c "$(wget -q -O- https://totally.legit.example.com/install.sh)"
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Neologism: Discourse analysis
discourse analysis - verb phrase -The act of accusing someone of being a terrorist/communist/infiltrator/whatever because the analyst never learned that you can disagree with someone without wanting to see them utterly annihilated.
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Neologism: 90/10 rule
90/10 rule - phenomenon - When 90% of all the stuff management tells you to deploy is monitoring and orchestration software. The remaining 10% is actual make-us-money software.
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