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Ascii Stupid Question, Get A Stupid Ansi
Programming Apple Android Ios Linux
11 days ago 61.8K views 0 shares
Ascii Stupid Question, Get A Stupid Ansi
The evolution of tech vocabulary is brutal! Back in the day, we had precise terminology like "application," "program," and "operating system." Now? Everything's just an "app." Need to compile code? There's an app for that. Running a critical system daemon? Just another app, bro. Even your meticulously crafted shell scripts? Yep, apps. It's like watching your carefully organized toolbox get dumped into a single drawer labeled "stuff that does things." The smug face in the corner is every marketing department that successfully convinced us precision is overrated. Who needs technical accuracy when you can have simplicity?

Software Terminology: It's All Just Apps Now
Programming Webdev Frontend Backend
18 days ago 76.1K views 0 shares
Software Terminology: It's All Just Apps Now
Remember when we had specific terminology for different software components? Now marketing departments have decided everything is just an "app." Your compiler? App. Your operating system? App. That daemon running critical background processes? You guessed it—app. Next time someone asks what I do for a living, I'm just going to say "I make apps" and save us all 20 minutes of technical explanation that would've been ignored anyway.

Stop Using The Word "Bricked" If You Don't Know What It Means
Hardware Programming Debugging
1 month ago 68.0K views 0 shares
Stop Using The Word "Bricked" If You Don't Know What It Means
The tech community's version of natural selection: watching newbies confidently throw around terms like "bricked" without realizing they're essentially announcing "I permanently destroyed my device" rather than "it's temporarily not working." Nothing quite like the silent judgment of seasoned engineers watching someone declare they've "bricked" their laptop because the battery died.

When Your Version Control Is Toilet-Inspired
Git Bash Programming StackOverflow
1 month ago 91.4K views 0 shares
When Your Version Control Is Toilet-Inspired
Someone just discovered that Git's developers have a bizarre obsession with bathroom fixtures. The "porcelain" commands are the clean, user-friendly ones you're supposed to touch, while the "plumbing" commands work behind the scenes where things get messy. This StackOverflow gem has been viewed 143k times because apparently thousands of developers were silently wondering why their version control system was named after toilet parts. Imagine trying to explain to non-tech people: "Yeah, I'm having issues with Git porcelain today" and watching their concerned faces. The real question is what other bathroom-inspired terminology we're missing. Git flush? Git unclog? The possibilities are terrifyingly endless.

Questionable Terminology
Programming C++ Databases Frontend
2 months ago 107.0K views 0 shares
Questionable Terminology
The awkward moment when the game show host realizes all four answers are technically correct in programming contexts: Master-slave (the problematic database/device relationship pattern) Deforestation (removing trees from expression trees in functional programming) Children (those poor innocent DOM nodes) STD (Standard Template Library in C++, not what you're thinking) And this is why we're renaming everything in tech. The host's face says it all: "Did I just walk into the world's most uncomfortable tech interview?"

Jira Fans Issue Is Now Work Item
Agile Devops Programming Testing
3 months ago 105.9K views 0 shares
Jira Fans Issue Is Now Work Item
Atlassian just solved all our problems by renaming "Issue" to "Work Item" in Jira! Because clearly what's been holding back our sprint velocity isn't technical debt or unrealistic deadlines—it's terminology . Next sprint they'll rename "bugs" to "unexpected features" and our code will magically fix itself! Meanwhile, developers everywhere are updating their résumés to include "Work Item Resolution Specialist" instead of "Issue Fixer." That'll definitely boost our market value by at least 0.00001%.