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The referenced article, https://blog.plover.com/lang/jargon-failures.html https://blog.plover.com/lang/jargon-failures.html, on jargon failures is a nice read a
by thijsb 7y ago
The referenced article, https://blog.plover.com/lang/jargon-failures.html https://blog.plover.com/lang/jargon-failures.html, on jargon failures is a nice read as well!
- majewsky 7y agoIT is full of jargon as well. Where else would it make sense to cherry-pick commits into a branch and then ask others to pull that branch into their repository? :) My German team has a running gag where, when a sentence turns out especially jargon-riddled, we translate all the jargon words into German, as literally as possible. The result is always hilarious.
- roelschroeven 7y agoSometimes IT and biology share some jargon, or at least they share the words but not exactly the meaning. Both in IT and biology a collection of trees is called a forest. In IT, if you take a tree and remove the root, the result is a forest. Biologists don't agree.
- falcor84 7y agoWell, the biological angle kind of makes sense if you think of it as taking the branches from a big tree, without the roots and successfully planting them in the ground individually. It doesn't quite work that way in practice, but if it did, you would get a small forest.
- JdeBP 7y agoDon't forget the nut metaphor. * https://superuser.com/a/329479/38062 https://superuser.com/a/329479/38062
- twic 7y ago> In IT, if you take a tree and remove the root, the result is a forest. Biologists don't agree. Unless it's Pando: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
- majewsky 7y agoBy the way, did you know that broad-leaved trees are infinitely large during winter? The proof is really easy to do for yourself: In winter, those trees don't have any leaves, so all nodes must be inner nodes, and you can easily show by induction that the height of the tree must be infinite.