The words we use..
Cookie
From UNIX "magic cookies", from fortune cookie. A holder for hidden information.
SPAM
From a Monty Python sketch
Python
(programming language)
Named after Monty Python
Breadcrumb
From Hansel and Gretel
They left a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way home
Radio Button
File
‘string documents on a thread or wire to keep them in order’, from French filer ‘to string,’
Folder
a folded cover or large envelope for holding or filing loose papers
Computer
A person who computes (calculates)
Cache
hidden storage space
(french: cacher, to hide)
weapons cache
Trolling
From a fishing technique
Baiting or luring their prey
Bluetooth
From a King Harald Bluetooth,
King of Denmark
He united Scandinavia under as single kingdom
Bluetooth: a single industry standard
Bluetooth
One of the proposed alternatives was 'Flirt' with the catch phrase
"getting close, but not touching."'
Originally just a project codename but later became the standard's name.
Zune & Squirting
"I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's a software experience."
Nearly as bad as..
NB: Think twice before google image searching "zune squirting"
Steve Balmer
$ finger
- user information lookup program
From the action of running your finger through a list of names in a directory
$ ping
- measure network roundtrip time
The response is called a 'pong' from Ping Pong
From the sound Sonar makes, which measures distance by sound round-trip time
Boot, Bootstrap
to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
self-starting process that is supposed to proceed without external input, a seemingly impossible task
Master - Slave
"In 2003, the County of Los Angeles in California asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors to stop using "master" and "slave" terminology on its products. The decision was taken by the county "based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County"
"In May 2014, github user fcurella submitted a pull request to the GitHub repository for the Python framework Django, initially changing it to "leader/follower" and finally to "primary/replica"
Slides
deck
By Fergal Walsh
