Comments on: New Programming Jargon

By: Paul Schofield

Paul Schofield — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:04:56 +0000

In Domain Driven Design, “The Sheath” is referred to as an “Anti-Corruption Layer.”

By: Programmer’s jargon | Sebastian Rudek

Programmer’s jargon | Sebastian Rudek — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:50:17 +0000

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By: Barry Staes

Barry Staes — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:01:06 +0000

Featureslack.

Product with some features missing on purpose, only made worse because of these often being only trivial to implement.

Like how many (especially cable-company supplied) digital TV decoders NOT (..no longer..) allow the customer to reorder their channels.

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New Programming Jargon | Lavenius.se — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:14:39 +0000

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By: Francis Fish

Francis Fish — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:50:50 +0000

You need the Yoda conditions if you’re doing Java and might have null

“fred”.equals(some_nasty_null)

will be false

some_nasty_null.equals(“fred)

will throw null pointer exception.

(I don’t do Java any more, thank some random deity)

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Programming Jargon « kaempfe.ch blog — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:27:45 +0000

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By: jon hanson

jon hanson — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:45:40 +0000

Logorrhea : Unnecessary and distracting verbal diarrhea in log files.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:14:16 +0000

Garbage-in = Garbage-out – I remember a story about crappy data. When a customer wanted us to do “data mining” to select all female customers 40 and older in a certain area.
My answer was: “50% of your customers don’t have a birthday. 10% are older than 90, 10% are younger than 16 (which is the age of your company), 10% have been born on January 1st 1970 and another 2% is going to be conceived some time next year. I could do something with other 18%, given I remove those that are marked as ‘female’ with the salutation code ‘Dear Sir’ (or vice versa).”
I guess crappy data is what you get for paying your call-center agents badly.

By: David

David — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:16:22 +0000

Crata – simply Crappy Data!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:48:07 +0000

My favorite is Zombie code – dead code that is still executed and of course it usually sneaks up on you. Known to empty out weak minds.

By: Parker

Parker — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:13:01 +0000

My favorites were Pokemon Exception Handling and Yoda Conditions. Probably because I’m a huge nerd.

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By: Renethuh

Renethuh — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:25:50 +0000

“Kwantum” or “Flux” code
the exact opposite of the heisenbug, meaning that code runs perfectly unless you run the debugger or “look at the code”.

By: fajas colombianas

fajas colombianas — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:19:31 +0000

That bugfoot is one lucky creature.

By: Bluejuce

Bluejuce — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:30:46 +0000

Write-only Code:
When the code is so unintelligible that doing anything more complicated than adding more is impossible.

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The Technology newsbucket: iPad usability, iPhone v Android, WiGig, and more — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:11:15 +0000

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By: Lady

Lady — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:15:59 +0000

We use “poltergeist” to talk about seemingly illogical or incomprehensible errors with an origin that takes you hours to find out. Often evident when you finally find them.

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tweetvaultHQ blog » And… go: — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:52:57 +0000

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By: Twitter Weekly for Week 2011-02-13 | florian.demmer.org

Twitter Weekly for Week 2011-02-13 | florian.demmer.org — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:05:19 +0000

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By: Joe Dama

Joe Dama — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:51:02 +0000

Half Life Rule.
When the amount of work still to be done is halved but never seems to finish.