Neologism: Technical heresy
technical heresy - noun phrase - Openly demonstrating the imagination to come up with actual uses for a platform or application that it is currently popular to hate.
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Neologism: Maintenance contention
maintenance contention - noun phrase - When there is only one bathroom but two people need it for the exact same urgent thing.
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Neologism: Rotten egg dependency
rotten egg dependency - noun phrase - A service that a mission-critical application relies upon that nobody knows about but brings everything to a screaming halt when something happens to it. In a sane world, said dependency should have nothing at all to do with the thing that just crashed. Called this because it's as pleasant a surprise as a rotten easter egg at breakfast. Best explicated by the following haiku:
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Neologism: Principle of definitional equivalence
principle of definitional equivalence - noun phrase - Often shortened to the ≡ symbol. A polite way of saying "Because fuck you, that's why." See also judgemental equality, homotopy type theory.
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Neologism: Q-hole
Q-hole - noun - A Nyquil hangover.
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Neologism: Ablumeditation
ablumeditation - verb - The act of taking a bath or shower to take a break from working on a problem, in the hope that insight will strike.
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Neologism: Sharkfinning
sharkfinning - verb, gerund - Learning something from scratch in an entirely hands-on way, which is to say, "Swimming with the sharks." When you don't know what you're doing or how to do it, but you have a job to do.
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Neologism: Faraday roundtable
Faraday roundtable - noun phrase - A meeting conducted entirely offline. All portable devices and computers are powered down, and ideally locked inside conductive and grounded containers to prevent radio transmissions from reaching or being emitted from same. Similarly, no active computers are permitted at the meeting. The proceedings of such a meeting are carried out using Chatham house rules.
Named for the Faraday cage.
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Neologism: Squirrel clever
squirrel clever - noun complex - The state of being extremely smart when it comes to figuring out how to do something. Notably, this does not include figuring out whether or not one should do something.
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Neologism: Onboarding suppository
onboarding suppository - noun complex - The massive volume of data that a new hire has to assimilate and comprehend before they can understand what they're supposed to be working on to any meaningful extent.
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