My dad used to refer to something he called “Scottish engineering”, which meant you start a project with good intentions but just end up swearing frequently and throwing everything in the fire lol
I mean, the Scots invented paved roads, tires, bicycles, steam engines, penicillin, postage stamps, television, radar, and universal standard time so they must have been doing something right.
Duct tapeGaff tape. You’re welcome.
My personal favourite is “structural integrity failure”.
Applies to sandwiches as well as anything.
I’m pretty fond of “unscheduled lithobraking” (it crashed).
If it doesn’t work, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
This simple advice has saved me from countless analysis paralysis problems.
I heard the three basic rules from somewhere:
- Always use the right tool for the job
- A hammer is always the right tool
- Every tool is a hammer
AFAIK, that is Russian rules of maintenance. Oh, and point 3 is: anything can be a hammer.
I see you’re an Indian developer.
Something moves where it shouldn’t? Apply tapes.
Something doesn’t move where it should? Apply WD-40.
Don’t forget to add actual lubricant to the thing that should be moving.
“client billing issue,” “client legal issue,” and “safety compliance issue” are my personal favorites
electrocuted
You mean shocked.
If you got electrocuted, you’d be dead.
Look up the definition. It’s changed to include severe injury from electricity.
Prescriptivism vs descriptivism.
The technical definition is as I described above.
It’s only been expanded in common dictionaries because the dictionaries practice descriptivism, i.e. they reflect not what is the best definition, but how it’s most often used.
In other words, just because it’s in the dictionary doesn’t mean the word means that in a technical context; it just means that’s how it’s commonly meant when used in everyday parlance.
OP is spreading some bullshit. Please understand this.
WD-40 IS NOT A LUBRICANT
That’s what my doctor keeps telling me
When did OP say WD-40 was a lubricant?
Everytime WD-40 is loosely referred to as one of the only tools needed, that is the implication. Maybe you should check common things in culture.
Pure by ocular spectroscopy = it looked good enough
Pharma distillation = tossing the chemical and buying a new bottle from Sigma
Retro-retro-Cope rearrangement = no reaction happened, go home and cry
I also like RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly).
I use “Observational Maintenance” all the time:
When you ask someone to look at a problem and it’s fixed by the time they do.
A friend showed me an issue they’d been having for over a YEAR. I did almost NOTHING and it was working by the time I looked at it.
More often than not it’s me that looks dumb, though.p
