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A foot cannon is a joke term for something which makes it easy to "shoot yourself in the foot". In other words a tool which is easy to use incorrectly.
by richdougherty 8y ago
A foot cannon is a joke term for something which makes it easy to "shoot yourself in the foot". In other words a tool which is easy to use incorrectly.
- marsRoverDev 8y agoWhy is this term so familiar to people on HN but like OP I cannot find a single reference to it on Google...
- gr__or 8y agoI think "foot gun" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun) is more common.
- sanderjd 8y agoI think people are very familiar with "foot gun" which is quite common, and are inferring that since a cannon is a really big gun, a foot cannon is a really big foot gun.