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The Buzzword Bingo forum is a place to post examples of ludicrous,
convoluted and meaningless buzzwords and marketing drivel dreamed up by those seeking to sound
more important and meaningful than they actually are.
We are developers, which means our job is to simplify complicated and ill-expressed requirements
in order to produce something elegant and useful. If you want to impress us then please just tell it
to us straight. The less pre-processing we have to do the more we will be interested.
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I remember when I was a sales rep, I told my distributor that I thought we could achieve a win-win situation. He laughed and asked if I'd been to a sales conference recently.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Christian Graus wrote: when I was a sales rep
My respect for you has just gone down a couple of notches there.
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Notice, past tense. He no longer is a sales rep...:p
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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It's too late. He's tainted now.
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Could always try to detox him 
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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You know when you watch a movie, that has a main character that gets completely humiliated in front of his in-laws, and you somehow feel embarrased for him? That's what I feel right now.
I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet.
"If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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oh this is like "quick-win" too.
"quick-win" to me means horrible hack which will definatley go wrong and have you here all night at some point in the next six months
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
CG! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
And of course... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Christian Graus wrote: when I was a sales rep
That is possibly the hardest thing that I've got to read here in ![Green Alien | [Alien]](/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) 's house...
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