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Standing up here means getting into a working but unfinished state. It’s a slightly uncommon turn of phrase, but it’s legit English.
by robin_reala 8y ago
Standing up here means getting into a working but unfinished state. It’s a slightly uncommon turn of phrase, but it’s legit English.
- phkahler 8y agoIs this the opposite of "stand down"? It seems to be.
- singlow 8y agoI think its more like "to erect"; "to stand down" is more like "hold back", "disengage" or "retreat" (intransitive). stand up (intransitive) ~= stand from a sitting or lying position stand up <direct-object> == erect, build, appoint, enact stand-up, upstanding (adjective) == moral, ethical stand-up [comedian] == actually standing on ones feet
- Serow225 8y agoTo me it's very common in the tech community. Maybe a transfer from the embedded/sysadmin/DBA side of things, from what I've seen its usage move over time.
- ergothus 8y agoYou aren't used to hearing about "standing up" new servers?
- Serow225 8y agoI must have written my text poorly, that's what I intended to convey; that in my experience the term's popularity started in the embedded/sysadmin/dba communities and then spread to the wider tech communities. Sorry! :)
- pohl 8y agoI hear this phrase frequently in programming. In order to get your program running, you first have to make it stand up.