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  • #3526
    Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

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    • #3527
      Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

      SMK + TS = BFFs
      Originally posted by Armando
      No one at Square Enix has heard of Occam's Razor.
      Originally posted by Armando
      Nintendo always seems to have a legion of haters at the wings ready to jump in and prop up straw men about hardware and gimmicks and casuals.
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      • #3528
        Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

        TS?
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        • #3529
          Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

          Too many fucking acronyms. Cut that shit out.
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          • #3530
            Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

            Yeah, I don't think Super Mario Kart gets used in conversation enough to warrant an acronym.
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            • #3531
              Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

              There are very few things that actually warrant acronyms, but that doesn't stop people from trying to turn every goddamn thing into an acronym.

              Don't be that guy. No one likes that guy. That guy is going to wind up face down in a gutter somewhere with multiple knives sticking out of his back.
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              • #3532
                Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                Never work for the Department of Defense.
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                • #3533
                  Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                  No kidding. I only see bits and pieces of that mess working for a company that does some government contracting work and if I had to work directly for the people who come up with that stuff I would nuts. It's not people saving space, it doesn't make communication easier(in fact it often makes it more difficult), and over half the time it's stupid fucks in management trying to make cute little word games out of their project. I literally saw someone come up with the acronym first and work backwards from there once. It was unbelievable.
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                  • #3534
                    Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                    Originally posted by Armando View Post
                    Never work for the Department of Defense.
                    you mean the DoD?
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                    • #3535
                      Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                      I literally saw someone come up with the acronym first and work backwards from there once. It was unbelievable.
                      See, that's not a problem in itself. Programmers have been doing this for decades. e.g. WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator). The trick is that the acronym needs to be pronounceable.

                      "If you can't pronounce it, you can't discuss it without sounding like an idiot." --Robert C. Martin, Clean Code
                      Last edited by Armando; 02-15-2013, 11:11 AM.
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                      • #3536
                        Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                        Working in radio communications means that we have shorthand for everything. I speak a totally different language at work.
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                        • #3537
                          Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                          Originally posted by Aksannyi View Post
                          Working in radio communications means that we have shorthand for everything. I speak a totally different language at work.
                          That's more or less the issue. After a certain point it stops being shorthand and becomes a language barrier unto itself.
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                          • #3538
                            Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                            There's a legitimate need for it in radio communications though. Radios suck and English relies too much on subtle differences in pronounciation.
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                            • #3539
                              Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                              Sure, but what's the excuse for the business world?
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                              • #3540
                                Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

                                I don't know. They're just being dumb.
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