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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem "Post-mortem (disambiguation)" => "Postmortem documentation, a technical anal

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem "Post-mortem (disambiguation)" => "Postmortem documentation, a technical analysis of a finished project." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation

goblin89 15y ago
Still arguably there's an unhappy connotation, which is better avoided in cases involving any controversy. TBH I first thought something went wrong during transition to GitHub when noticed the headline on HN. However, I never did professional copy editing, and indeed it's a nitpick compared to the occasion. Great news and hopefully this will help Django development.
- batista 15y ago
  >Still arguably there's an unhappy connotation, which is better avoided in cases involving any controversy. It's a well known, and extensively used manner of speaking. There is no controversy --nor should we aspire to avoid "all controversy" by going into laughable measures like censoring stock standard phrases.
  - goblin89 15y ago
    It's probably my non-native English then. I didn't realize it's such a common wording, thanks for pointing out. Just sounded a bit odd. By controversy I mean the matter of Django transition to GitHub that IIRC was a subject for discussions for a long time.
    - batista 15y ago
      >It's probably my non-native English then. I didn't realize it's such a common wording, thanks for pointing out. Just sounded a bit odd. A, no problem. I'm a non-native English speaker myself. It's so known a use that it's even in the dictionary: Post Mortem: 2. Informal An analysis or review of a finished event. Funny aside: in my language we have a similar half-joking phrase. When someone asks "How did it go?" after you've done anything that you're uncertain about it's outcome (a job interview, exams, your book getting published, etc), a common answer is "The autopsy will show us".
      - goblin89 15y ago
        I know that saying. Either the joke exists in several languages or we share one. =) However, I still generally avoid using that joke with sensitive/more formal matter, preferring to err on the safe side. (Here, as well, misunderstanding might've occurred because the context was a bit less formal than I expected.) I didn't pay much attention to dictionary references in this thread because I don't trust dictionary much when specific word's usage is in question, more relying on personal experience. Although maybe I should simply get a more extensive dictionary than what ships with OS X—the big problem with the above approach, of course, is that if I never saw a phrase used in some way, it may only mean I never had a chance to.
        batista 15y ago
        >I know that saying. Either the joke exists in several languages or we share one. =) Judging from your profile info, we do not share a language, but we share a religion (our countries do, that is).

goblin89 15y ago

Still arguably there's an unhappy connotation, which is better avoided in cases involving any controversy. TBH I first thought something went wrong during transition to GitHub when noticed the headline on HN. However, I never did professional copy editing, and indeed it's a nitpick compared to the occasion. Great news and hopefully this will help Django development.

batista 15y ago
>Still arguably there's an unhappy connotation, which is better avoided in cases involving any controversy. It's a well known, and extensively used manner of speaking. There is no controversy --nor should we aspire to avoid "all controversy" by going into laughable measures like censoring stock standard phrases.
- goblin89 15y ago
  It's probably my non-native English then. I didn't realize it's such a common wording, thanks for pointing out. Just sounded a bit odd. By controversy I mean the matter of Django transition to GitHub that IIRC was a subject for discussions for a long time.
  - batista 15y ago
    >It's probably my non-native English then. I didn't realize it's such a common wording, thanks for pointing out. Just sounded a bit odd. A, no problem. I'm a non-native English speaker myself. It's so known a use that it's even in the dictionary: Post Mortem: 2. Informal An analysis or review of a finished event. Funny aside: in my language we have a similar half-joking phrase. When someone asks "How did it go?" after you've done anything that you're uncertain about it's outcome (a job interview, exams, your book getting published, etc), a common answer is "The autopsy will show us".
    - goblin89 15y ago
      I know that saying. Either the joke exists in several languages or we share one. =) However, I still generally avoid using that joke with sensitive/more formal matter, preferring to err on the safe side. (Here, as well, misunderstanding might've occurred because the context was a bit less formal than I expected.) I didn't pay much attention to dictionary references in this thread because I don't trust dictionary much when specific word's usage is in question, more relying on personal experience. Although maybe I should simply get a more extensive dictionary than what ships with OS X—the big problem with the above approach, of course, is that if I never saw a phrase used in some way, it may only mean I never had a chance to.
      - batista 15y ago
        >I know that saying. Either the joke exists in several languages or we share one. =) Judging from your profile info, we do not share a language, but we share a religion (our countries do, that is).