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Dave wrote:
Well, it wasn't quite a traditional use of the term. If I'd been speaking in Formal High Hacker, I would have said "I suspect that Paul frobnicated the page with a larger PayPal donation button, and that this led to lossage in the formatting. He may have neglected to recompile the world and smoke-test the appearance."
README: Following these links brings a serious risk of an archive dive. It might be wise to order up a rotary debugger before beginning.
Dear Dog, I forgot all about hacker speak . (I have only been listening to it since it was created in the Apple II era and the birth of Crystal Palace BBS {I feel so OLD. })
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Dave wrote:I suspect that the presence of the larger PayPal donation button has frobnicated the page formatting.
I'm not sure, but I think this is the first time I've been frobnicated...
Well, it wasn't quite a traditional use of the term. If I'd been speaking in Formal High Hacker, I would have said "I suspect that Paul frobnicated the page with a larger PayPal donation button, and that this led to lossage in the formatting. He may have neglected to recompile the world and smoke-test the appearance."
README: Following these links brings a serious risk of an archive dive. It might be wise to order up a rotary debugger before beginning.
NOTDilbert wrote: Just as long as that's NOT Yelling Bird. Had enough of that for the....well, pick a unit of time. Go Long.
You had to go out and get your own dicksissel, didn't you?
I do't mean to imply that I don't like the QC comic, I do - Bt I work in a hospital call center, and some people think the first person they talk to is the one they need to yell at....
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge" - Albert Einstein
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it DOES rhyme" - Mark Twain
"Always. Expect. Ninjas." - Syndey Scoville
Dave wrote:I suspect that the presence of the larger PayPal donation button has frobnicated the page formatting.
I'm not sure, but I think this is the first time I've been frobnicated...
Well, it wasn't quite a traditional use of the term. If I'd been speaking in Formal High Hacker, I would have said "I suspect that Paul frobnicated the page with a larger PayPal donation button, and that this led to lossage in the formatting. He may have neglected to recompile the world and smoke-test the appearance."
README: Following these links brings a serious risk of an archive dive. It might be wise to order up a rotary debugger before beginning.
Oh, hey! It turns out I have been frobnicated before...
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Dave wrote:I suspect that the presence of the larger PayPal donation button has frobnicated the page formatting.
I'm not sure, but I think this is the first time I've been frobnicated...
Well, it wasn't quite a traditional use of the term. If I'd been speaking in Formal High Hacker, I would have said "I suspect that Paul frobnicated the page with a larger PayPal donation button, and that this led to lossage in the formatting. He may have neglected to recompile the world and smoke-test the appearance."
README: Following these links brings a serious risk of an archive dive. It might be wise to order up a rotary debugger before beginning.
Oh, wow, the jargon file. That takes me back a ways...
I just hope your water-powered supercomputer doesn't dump core...
Eagerly anticipating the Pun Jar singularity event...
Forget the Plot Flour...we're into Plot Cornstarch, and the plot has gone non-newtonian...