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<company> A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
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<unit> 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes = 1024 zettabytes.
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[Unix] The canonical comment describing something magic or too complicated to bother explaining properly. From an infamous comment in the context-switching code of the V6 Unix kernel.
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The set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about themselves. These include the following:
* Not only do you check your e-mail more often than your paper mail, but you remember your network address faster than your postal one.
* Your SO kisses you on the neck and the first thing you think is "Uh, oh, priority interrupt".
* You go to balance your chequebook and discover that you're doing it in octal.
* Your computers have a higher street value than your car.
* In your universe, "round numbers" are powers of 2, not 10.
* You have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language.
* You realise you have never seen half of your best friends.
[An early version of this entry said "All but one of these have been reliably reported as hacker traits (some of them quite often). Even hackers may have trouble spotting the ringer." The ringer was balancing one's chequebook in octal, which I made up out of whole cloth. Although more respondents picked that one out as fiction than any of the others, I also received multiple independent reports of its actually happening, most famously to Grace Hopper while she was working with BINAC in 1949. - ESR]
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1. <programming> The Yourdon methodology.
2. <person> Edward Yourdon.
3. <company> Yourdon, Inc..
(1995-04-07)
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<programming> (Or "Constantine/Yourdon") A structured design methodology involving structure charts, developed by Larry Constantine.
(1995-04-07)
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<programming> (Or "DeMarco/Yourdon") A structured analysis methodology involving data flow diagrams, etc. developed by Edward Yourdon and Tom DeMarco.
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<company> The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.
(1995-04-16)
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<programming> The software engineering methodology developed by Edward Yourdon and colleagues in the 1970s and 1980s. "Yourdon methodology" is a generic term for all of the following methodologies: Yourdon/Demarco, Yourdon/Constantine, Coad/Yourdon.
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(Standard disclaimer attached to EPA mileage ratings by American car manufacturers) A ritual warning often found in Unix freeware distributions and elsewhere. Translates roughly as "Hey, I tried to write this portably, but who *knows* what'll happen on your system?"
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<World-Wide Web, video> An on-line video file sharing web site, founded on 2005-02-14 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Anyone can upload video clips to the site and these can then be viewed by others. In 2007, many such sites exist but YouTube is the best known.
YouTube is funded by Sequoia Capital. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc.. YouTube has partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, BBC, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, NBA, The Sundance Channel and many more.
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<exclamation> /yow/ (From "Zippy the Pinhead" comics) A favoured hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. "Yow! Check out what happens when you twiddle the foo option on this display hack!"
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(1995-03-07)
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<jargon> The state in which a computer is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down. Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits.
Sun Microsystems gave out logoised yoyos at SIGPLAN '88. Tourists staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were subsequently treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top computer scientists testing yo-yo algorithms in the lobby.
[Is it "yoyo" or "yo-yo"?]
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