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> The largest negative ROI over time Why do you have to obfuscate the language so much with technical jargon? Just say 'the costliest mistake'.
by Yajirobe 7y ago
> The largest negative ROI over time
Why do you have to obfuscate the language so much with technical jargon? Just say 'the costliest mistake'.
- jacquesm 7y agoBecause costliest mistake isn't equivalent, and it isn't nearly as funny like that. Just imagine a whole team of people working on a combination of hardware and software, some of the hardware prototype level floating point gear obtained directly from the manufacturer under NDA (that's non disclosure agreement) and then someone decides to drop a dime into the machine. The dime is the investment, the time it took to cause the damage the factor that you normally would use to indicate your positive gain on that investment, in this case a couple of milliseconds and a few hundred thousand dollars was gone beyond recovery. Project down the drain. I guess when you explain it it is no longer that funny, and HN is more than capable of decoding the original.
- justinclift 7y agoReminds me of when rockets launching to space blow up instead, taking out their payloads (months/years of work). ;)
- cumwolf 7y agoit's toxic but "(that's non disclosure agreement) " made me actually LOL
- Gibbon1 7y agoOn of my old bosses said he dropped a scope probe and shorted 120VAC onto the 5V bus. On a system with an 8008 emulator (cost $25k) plugged into the processor socket. Smoke poured out of the emulator and the breaker tripped. Fortunately a heroic 7400 quad nand gate sacrificed itself to save anyone. He said all that was left was the leads sticking out of the PCB. My cousin hooked up VCC and gnd backwards and blew up a prototype RISC processor. Only a dozen working ones in existence. Please sir may we have another?