yocto-
prefixYoda condition
The programming practise of using
if (constant == variable)e.g.
if (4 == foo)instead of the more natural
if (variable == constant)It is named after the Star Wars character Yoda who says things like "Strong is Vader". It may have been invented as a way to prevent coding errors like
if (count = 5)(accidentally using a single "=" (assignment) instead of a double "==" (comparison)). The above is syntactically valid whereas the Yoda equivalent would give a compile-time error.
Last updated: 2012-06-25
YOL Computers
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A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
http://yolc.com/.Last updated: 2008-01-28
yotta-
prefixyottabyte
(YB) A unit of data equal to 10^24 bytes but see binary prefix for other definitions. A yottabyte is 1000^8 bytes or 1000 zettabytes.
It is estimated that the web contains about one yottabyte of data (2013). 1000 yottabytes has been called one brontobyte. See prefix.Last updated: 2013-11-04
You are not expected to understand this
[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. [Jargon File]You aren't gonna need it
(YAGNI) A motto of extreme programming expressing the principle that functionality should not be implemented until it is needed. The traditional waterfall model makes it difficult to add features after the specification has been signed off, tempting the specifier to add features that may never be used but which take time to program, debug, test and document.
Last updated: 2014-03-27
Yourdon
1. The Yourdon methodology.
<person>
2. Edward Yourdon.
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3. Yourdon, Inc..
Last updated: 1995-04-07
Yourdon/Constantine
(Or "Constantine/Yourdon") A structured design methodology involving structure charts, developed by Larry Constantine.
Last updated: 1995-04-07
Yourdon/Demarco
(Or "DeMarco/Yourdon") A structured analysis methodology involving data flow diagrams, etc. developed by Edward Yourdon and Tom DeMarco.
Last updated: 1995-04-07
Yourdon, Inc.
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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.
Last updated: 1995-04-16
Yourdon methodology
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.
Last updated: 1995-04-07
Your mileage may vary
<jargon>
(YMMV) The disclaimer American car manufacturers attached to EPA mileage ratings. A humourous way of saying that the thing under discussion will not necessarily give you the same results as the author. Often used to convey the hardware dependence of Unix freeware distributions.
[Jargon File]Last updated: 2012-02-16
youtube.com
YouTube, Inc.YouTube, Inc.
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. YouTube Home.Last updated: 2007-09-28
Yow!
/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!"
Compare gurfle. [Jargon File]Last updated: 1995-03-07
yoyo mode
<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"?] [Jargon File]Last updated: 1995-03-07
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