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first time i see "fubar", is that a common expression on the industry? jsut curious (english is not my native language)
by ljdtt 1y ago
first time i see "fubar", is that a common expression on the industry? jsut curious (english is not my native language)
- parliament32 1y agoYes, although it's military in origin.
- vishnugupta 1y agoIt used to be quite common but has fallen out of usage.
- strictnein 1y agoFUBAR: Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition Somewhat common. Comes from the US military in WW2.
- sorentwo 1y agoIt is an old US military term that means “F*ked Up Beyond All Recognition”
- dingnuts 1y agoFUBAR being a bit worse than SNAFU: "situation normal: all fucked up" which is the usual state of us-east-1
- D-Coder 1y agoMy favorite is JANFU: Joint Army-Navy Fuck-Up.
- joeyphoen 1y agoBut you probably have seen the standard example variable names "foo" and "bar" which (together at least) come from `fubar`
- worik 1y agoFoobar == "Fucked up beyond all recognition " Even the acronym is fucked. My favorite by a large margin...
- sunnybeetroot 1y agoWhich are in fact unrelated.
- jameshart 1y agoUnclear. ‘Foo’ has a life and origin of its own and is well attested in MIT culture going back to the 1930s for sure, but it seems pretty likely that it’s counterpart ‘bar’ appears in connection with it as a comical allusion to FUBAR.
- gregw2 1y agoInterestingly, it was "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition" when it first appeared in print back towards the end of World War 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_slang_terms#FUBAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_slang_terms#F... Not to be confused with "Foobar" which apparently originated at MIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar TIL, an interesting footnote about "foo" there: 'During the United States v. Microsoft Corp. trial, evidence was presented that Microsoft had tried to use the Web Services Interoperability organization (WS-I) as a means to stifle competition, including e-mails in which top executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer referred to the WS-I using the codename "foo".[13]'
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- loudmax 1y ago"FUBAR" comes up in the movie Saving Private Ryan. It's not a plot point, but it's used to illustrate the disconnect between one of the soldiers dragged from a rear position to the front line, and the combat veterans in his squad. If you haven't seen the movie, you should. The opening 20 minutes contains one of the most terrifying and intense combat sequences ever put to film.
- ibejoeb 1y agoHonestly not sure if this is a joke I'm not in on. There are documented uses of FUBAR back into the '40s.