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Stack Overflow – like most online communities I've studied – naturally trends toward increased strictness over time. It's primarily a defense mechanism, an immune system of the sort a child develops after first entering school or daycare and being exposed to the wide, wide world of everyday sneezes and coughs with the occasional meningitis outbreak. It isn't always a pleasant process, but it is, unfortunately, a necessary one if you want to survive.
Consider this question from two years ago:
New programming jargon you coined?
What programming terms have you coined that have taken off in your own circles (i.e. have heard others repeat it)? It might be within your own team, workplace or garnered greater popularity on the Internet.
Write your programming term, word or phrase in bold text followed by an explanation, citation and/or usage example so we can use it in appropriate context.
Don't repeat common jargon already ingrained in the programming culture like: kludge, automagically, cruft, etc. (unless you coined it).
This question serves in the spirit of communication among programmers through sharing of terminology with each other, to benefit us by its propagation within our own teams and environments.
Is this even a question, really? How many answers does it have?
Three hundred and eighty six!
A question that invites 386 different "answers" isn't a question at all. It's an opinion survey, a poll, a List of X. I suppose you could argue that reading through all those responses would teach you something about programming, but it was pretty clear that the bulk of the responses were far more about laughs and GTKY (Getting to Know You) than learning. That's why it was eventually deleted by experienced Stack Overflow community members. Although it is somewhat borderline in terms of learning, and I didn't personally vote to delete it, I tend to agree that it was correctly deleted. Though opinions vary.
I won't bore you with the entire history, our so-called "war on fun", and the trouble with popularity. Ultimately, Stack Overflow is a college, not a frat house. All the content on the site must exist to serve the mission of learning over entertainment – even if that means making difficult calls about removing some questions and answers that fail to meet those goals, plus or minus 10 percent.
In terms of programmer culture, though, there is precedent in the form of The Jargon File. Unfortunately, we don't have a good designated place for deleted "too fun" questions to live, but all Stack Exchange content is licensed under Creative Commons in perpetuity. Which means, with proper attribution, we can give it a permanent home on our own blogs. So I did. I've collected the top 30 Stack Overflow New Programming Jargon entries below, as judged by the Stack Overflow community. Enjoy.*
Using if(constant == variable)
instead of if(variable == constant)
, like if(4 == foo)
. Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall is the man".
For when you just Gotta Catch 'Em All.
try { } catch (Exception ex) { // Gotcha! }
You know the style of brackets where the opening brace goes on the end of the current line, e.g. this?
if (a == b) { printf("hello"); }
We used to refer to this style of brackets as "Egyptian brackets". Why? Compare the position of the brackets with the hands in the picture. (This style of brackets is used in Kernighan and Ritchie's book The C Programming Language, so it's known by many as K&R style.)
A bug submitted by a user who thinks he knows a lot more about the system's design than he really does. Filled with irrelevant technical details and one or more suggestions (always wrong) about what he thinks is causing the problem and how we should fix it.
Also related to Drug Report (a report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack.), Chug Report (where the submitter is thought to have had one too many), and Shrug Report (a bug report with no error message or repro steps and only a vague description of the problem. Usually contains the phrase "doesn't work.")
A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention and be removed, thus avoiding unnecessary changes in other aspects of the product.
I don't know if I actually invented this term or not, but I am certainly not the originator of the story that spawned it.
This started as a piece of Interplay corporate lore. It was well known that producers (a game industry position, roughly equivalent to PMs) had to make a change to everything that was done. The assumption was that subconsciously they felt that if they didn't, they weren't adding value.
The artist working on the queen animations for Battle Chess was aware of this tendency, and came up with an innovative solution. He did the animations for the queen the way that he felt would be best, with one addition: he gave the queen a pet duck. He animated this duck through all of the queen's animations, had it flapping around the corners. He also took great care to make sure that it never overlapped the "actual" animation.
Eventually, it came time for the producer to review the animation set for the queen. The producer sat down and watched all of the animations. When they were done, he turned to the artist and said, "that looks great. Just one thing - get rid of the duck."
The process of taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself.
A riff on strongly typed. Used to describe an implementation that needlessly relies on strings when programmer & refactor friendly options are available.
For example:
Excessively stringly typed code is usually a pain to understand and detonates at runtime with errors that the compiler would normally find.
A computer bug that disappears or alters its characteristics when an attempt is made to study it. (Wikipedia)
When web designers add a doctype declaration but don't bother to write valid markup.
<!DOCTYPE html> <BLINK>Now on sale!</BLINK>
A generalized name for the clueless/new developer.
Found as we were developing a framework component that required minimal knowledge of how it worked for the other developers. We would always phrase our questions as: "What if Jimmy forgets to update the attribute?"
This led to the term: "Jimmy-proof" when referring to well designed framework code.
A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal reports from users, but it is difficult (if not impossible) to reproduce on a dev machine because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. (see Higgs-Boson)
I'm writing a scifi novel from the POV of an AI, and their internal language has a lot of programming jargon in it. One of the more generalizable terms is "nopping", which comes from assembler NOP for no-operation. It's similar to 'nap', but doesn't imply sleep, just zoning out. "Stanislav sat watching the screensaver and nopped for a while."
An adjective to describe a feature that's so early in the planning stages that it might as well be imaginary. We cribbed this one from Yehuda Katz, who used it in his closing keynote at last year's Windy City Rails to describe some of Rails' upcoming features.
Code with too many layers.
Baklava is a delicious pastry made with many paper-thin layers of phyllo dough. While thin layers are fine for a pastry, thin software layers don't add much value, especially when you have many such layers piled on each other. Each layer has to be pushed onto your mental stack as you dive into the code. Furthermore, the layers of phyllo dough are permeable, allowing the honey to soak through. But software abstractions are best when they don't leak. When you pile layer on top of layer in software, the layers are bound to leak.
A catastrophic data destroying bug. "Oh the humanity!"
Also related to Counterbug (a bug you present when presented with a bug caused by the person presenting the bug) and Bloombug (a bug that accidentally generates money).
When project management adds more pressure (fires someone, moves deadlines forward, subtracts resources from the project, etc).
Code that cannot be fixed. Like the Hydra of legend, every new fix introduces two new bugs. It should be rewritten.
A bug in the application that has existed so long that it is now part of the expected functionality, and user support is required to actually fix it.
I've started Loch Ness Monster bug for anything not reproducible / only sighted by one person. I'm hearing a lot of people in the office say it now. (Possible alternates: Bugfoot, Nessiebug.)
Also known as invisible comments, secret comments, or no comments.
When almost every class has the same prefix. IE, when a user clicks on the button, a SmurfAccountView
passes a SmurfAccountDTO
to the SmurfAccountController
. The SmurfID
is used to fetch a SmurfOrderHistory
which is passed to the SmurfHistoryMatch
before forwarding to either SmurfHistoryReviewView
or SmurfHistoryReportingView
. If a SmurfErrorEvent
occurs it is logged by SmurfErrorLogger
to ${app}/smurf/log/smurf/smurflog.log
A prototype that ends up in production. Heard this from a tech at the Fermi lab. He said he didn't coin the term but had heard it used a number of times at Fermi.
Sometimes, you just have to talk a problem out. I used to go to my boss and talk about something and he'd listen and then I'd just answer my own question and walk out without him saying a thing. I read about someone that put a rubber duck on their monitor so they could talk to it, so rubberducking is talking your way through a problem.
Placeholder text indicating that documentation is in progress or yet to be completed. Mostly used because FxCop complains when a public function lacks documentation.
/// <summary> /// banana banana banana /// </summary> public CustomerValidationResponse Validate()
Other food-related jargon: Programmer Fuel (Mountain Dew, coffee, Mate, anything which gets you well-caffeinated), Hot Potato (Http and Https respectively. Same number of syllables, but more fun to say), Cake (Marty's noob cake broke the build), Chunky Salsa (based on the chunky salsa rule, a single critical error or bug that renders an entire system unusable, especially in a production environment).
Adding 2 to a variable.
The program (or more likely feature of a program) does exactly what was asked for but when it's deployed it turns out that the problem was misunderstood and it's basically useless.
When you see something strange happening, but the software is telling you everything is fine.
Stands for MEGA MOnolithic meTHod. Often contained inside a God Object, and usually stretches over two screens in height. Megamoths of greater size than 2k LOC have been sighted. Beware of the MEGAMOTH!
Code that is problematic and causes application instability (application "goes down" often). "Did the site go down again? Yeah, Jim must still have some hooker code in there."
When the whole thing collapses after you alter a block of code.
This is just the top 30, what I consider to be the most likely candidates for actual new programming jargon based on community upvotes, not just "funny thing that another programmer typed on a webpage and I felt compelled to upvote for hilarity". Because that would be Reddit. If you're itching to see even more, there are plenty more answers to read – three hundred and fifty six more to be precise. Longtime Stack Overflow user Greg Hewgill maintains an archive of old deleted Stack Overflow questions, but this one hasn't quite made it in there yet. In the meantime, try Stack Printer, or if you have the requisite 10k rep on Stack Overflow, you can view the full soft-deleted question on the site.
* But don't enjoy it too much. We will be watching you.
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Oh, the huge manatee!
I will definitely be implementing some of these :)
Hediedforme on July 20, 2012 2:38 PMThe "Jimmy" answer was so highly upvoted because of one of the comments:
sigh . . ...... :< – Jimmy Mar 1 '10 at 6:30
That comment had 1470 upvotes, by far the highest upvoted comment on the site.
Blue Raja on July 20, 2012 2:52 PMI wish my "What is your (least) favorite syntax gotcha" didn't have to go. There was lots of valuable information there :)
Goran Siska on July 20, 2012 3:28 PMJargon file still missing "Highlander" for when "there can be only one". Meaning you have a section of code for which only one process or thread can be alive at a time.
twitter.com/merlyn on July 20, 2012 3:42 PMCome on ... Yoda Conditions is the easiest way to catch assignment in if statements:
if (5 = value) ...
causes the compiler to moan, whereas
if (value = 5) ...
does not and accidentally assigns 5 to value and ends up always executing the if block.
Gordon Down Under on July 20, 2012 4:05 PMNice post, but it needs anchors at each term, so we can direct-link to it.
Benny Smythe on July 20, 2012 4:24 PMDang it, my answer was only like 5 posts away! D:
Kalebbrasee on July 20, 2012 4:41 PMSigh.
Jimmy on July 20, 2012 4:56 PMNumber 7 - "Stringly typed" already has a better definition - "primitive obsession" You described it on your blog six years back http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/05/code-smells.html
Damienguard on July 20, 2012 5:03 PMDude, what's wrong with "egyptian brackets"? That's the only way I've ever written code. For two decades. Putting a bracket on the same line as a conditional or loop makes everything in between a lot easier to read and indent. Putting the closing bracket on its own line at the bottom (sometimes followed by a comment on what it's closing, if it's a nested block) makes it clearer what the closing bracket relates to. Saves a line at the top, and the syntax reads cleaner at the bottom. I've always hated the style of putting opening brackets on the next line down...or closing brackets at the end of a code line. I fix other people's code into "egyptian" before handing it back to them because the other variants piss me off. In what way is this some new Stack Overflow craze? Do you think I read stack overflow and came to a sudden realization that this was a way to write code? No. This is the way clean code looks. And has always looked, whether it's in C, Perl, Actionscript, PHP or anything else that takes a lot of brackets. Some Perl and C++ coders' tendency to put the opening bracket on next line is, honestly, stupid-looking and hard to read. Python and Ruby coders might get a pass for just having a completely shitty-to-look-at language, but using Pythonic formatting in languages that take bracketed conditionals is just a magnitude of stupidity higher.
if (you.cantRead(this)) {
YADSL - Yet Another Domain Specific Language
When someone writes a DSL even though ordinary code would work just as well.
TR NS on July 20, 2012 6:17 PM#27 is not a good thing. Please don't perpetuate this kind of jargon.
Squidseer on July 20, 2012 6:42 PMBeing the person who coined "yoda conditionals", I obviously felt let down when it was deleted. But now that I'm featured in a blog post of Coding Horror, I must say I'm proud of my call.
To everyone criticizing it: it's time to update your compilers. Neither Java nor C# will let you assign something in an if statement, and most C and C++ compilers will emit a warning if you do. At least, gcc and clang do; I wouldn't be surprised if VC++ did as well.
Félix Cloutier on July 20, 2012 6:48 PMThe opposite of "Egyptian Brackets" would be "Hadouken Brackets", then? (BTW, I completely agree with Félix regarding to "Yoda Conditionals" - and c'mon, hire good professionals, don't screw your code just because you want to protect your software from them)
Account Deleted on July 20, 2012 6:59 PMEgyptian brackets it's so funny that from now on every time I will see it I will do the walk like and egyptian whistle.
Guillem Sola on July 20, 2012 7:06 PMThis language says a lot about programmer culture. We have "Jimmy", the clueless new programmer, who is male because programmers are male by default. We have the "mad girlfriend bug", which programmers can empathize with because they are straight males who know what it is like to have a mad girlfriend. And we have "hooker code", which relies on the idea of prostitutes as unclean and unsafe.
InterfectPrime on July 20, 2012 7:13 PM@Gordon Down Under, I never knew that was the reason for the choice, thank you. Some language's compilers won't let you either way, thankfully.
Johnwalters_sd on July 20, 2012 7:31 PMHere are some of mine
Christian Magic-
A piece of code someone else wrote or you wrote at 4 am that you have no idea how it works, but it does you just have to believe
360 no scope-
Don't know how this came around but its when you get a service leak on andriod (or something equal) cause it just snuck right up on you.
@js, "I fix other people's code into "egyptian" before handing it back to them because the other variants piss me off." - You must be a great guy to work with, with you knowing what clean code looks like and what looks stupid and everything.
Johnwalters_sd on July 20, 2012 7:37 PMI skimmed the Hindenbug entry and thought I saw a 'Cronenbug' -- this would be named after David Cronenberg the horror movie director and would describe a bug which makes your head explode.
Ambrose Chapel on July 20, 2012 7:42 PM@John, I pretty much only work alone except if I'm answering people's questions and/or tracking down the bugs in their code. And I don't care about the grammar, I just find it impossible to read when the brackets are all over the place, so I clean that up too.
js on July 20, 2012 7:43 PMFollymorphism, something that uses instanceof to do something that should have used polymorphism.
Nicsnoek on July 20, 2012 8:01 PMI like "Ignorance is Bliss" code. This is when you don't know much about the system you're working on yet, but take it upon yourself to "refactor" a significant piece of business logic. It might not be under test, but what could go wrong when moving it into a new module, renaming it, extracting all of the logic into new methods, and adding parameters to its constructor? Nothing, right?
Blake Hyde on July 20, 2012 8:39 PMAgreed with squidseer - #27 is not good jargon. It's sexist, and to some extent so is #29. Don't see what's so funny about them.
Jordo37 on July 20, 2012 8:41 PMI've mostly only ever seen Java code Egyptian style.
I often use a variant on the Yoda conditional, to prevent null pointer exceptions:
"Some string".equals(aBean.getMightBeNullButDontCareString());Andrew on July 20, 2012 9:00 PM
Back Seat Programming (BSP) is one fairly recently coined by a team that I was in. It starts as pair programming, but in occasional situations involves three people. This arrangement quickly devolves into the back seat programmer incessantly heckling the two front seat programmers, particularly the one doing the typing.
It has become a permanent addition to our vocabulary.
Geoff on July 20, 2012 9:15 PM@js, other people think that clean code is when the brackets line up. They're not wrong. Neither are you. Personally, I really don't even have a preference. Whatever convention that seems to be present is the right one, for me. I'd rather just create something than be bothered by nonsense like that. I do like the term "egyptian brackets" though.
Johnwalters_sd on July 20, 2012 9:42 PM" or if you have the requisite 10k rep on Stack Overflow, you can view the full soft-deleted question on the site"
Some of the archived 'fun' questions should be left in this soft-deleted state, just to add an entertainment enticement for reaching the 10,000 mark.
Gary Myers on July 20, 2012 11:05 PMWe use the term "Stebugging" internally to describe the process of finding and fixing code errors caused by our enthusiastic junior dev Stephen..
welcomebrand on July 20, 2012 11:06 PMWait, so this blog is creative commons as well? Can everybody else just grab quality material from SO and post it on their blog? Cause all I can see is "Content (C) Jeff Atwood" at the bottom...
Step 1: Build an awesome community tool that attracts millions of programmers
Step 2: Close down any question that's too popular or, god forbid, fun.
Step 3: Post same question on own blog...
Assaflavie on July 20, 2012 11:16 PMDid you guys at SE ever think about making a SE specifically for stuff that was off-topic but fun/good? Just migrate all such posts from all of the SE's and SO to this particular SE. Could call it offtopic.stackexchange.com
Account Deleted on July 21, 2012 12:06 AMI my world, Rubber Ducking is "Potato Pairing".
You ask someone to help with a problem and you figure it out through the process of explaining the problem. Instead of asking a human, you could have saved trouble and paired with a potato instead.
Jarpy on July 21, 2012 12:32 AM@Félix Cloutier
You can, in fact, make assignments in IF statements easily in most of the languages you listed. I'd never thought of using 'yoda conditionals' to prevent it, but it would work. If you wrap the assignment in ()s it is valid, this would happen if you are bracketting multi conditionals.
if ( (a == null) || (a < b) )
if ( (a = null) || (a < b) )
both valid, one of those does an assignment.
On the other hand, there's the problem of communities that are too forgiving to newcomers. Reddit post-digg-migration is a perfect example of a community that should've been tougher on newcomers. Instead, we were all too busy basking in our own popularity before we realized that it was too late to educate millions of new redditors on proper rediquette.
I think SO has struck a good balance of not being too loose on rules but also not scaring off newcomers. (And today, there's programmers, workplace, UNIX etc. StackExchanges for anything off-topic anyway).
CLUSTERfoo on July 21, 2012 1:06 AMI often talk about the dreadful "leaning Eiffel tower". It's a lot of if()'s nested that resemble an Eiffel tower laying on the ground.
It's often a symptom of having the conditions nested at the wrong level so you end up testing something repeatedly in different branches.
Tommy Hallgren on July 21, 2012 2:41 AMI used to use "a duck" with my dad when a kid and had to tidy my room, I soon learnt that no matter how good a job I did he would always pick up on something that could be done better, in time I used to leave something easy for him to pick up on that I could quickly change!
Zharrt on July 21, 2012 2:47 AM"Fragile" - A software project using traditional "waterfall" lifecycle but called "agile" by the project managers.
Ballmw on July 21, 2012 3:00 AMFear driven development isn't when they subtract resources from the project - it's when they add them (and normally new hires at that).
Gizmo on July 21, 2012 5:15 AMAny good jargon for the practice of using a (D)VCS as your personal save-every-three-minutes notepad, as revealed by a string of commits such as:
"10:23: Finished $FOO"
"10:26: Forgot temp. print"
"10:29: Oops"
"10:31: Will I ever get this right"
"10:34: One more fix"
So basically you removed the content from stack overflow and put it here for page views. Doesn't seem right to me.
How about creating a stack overflow section for questions like these? http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73455/popular-deleted-questions-list
I shouldn't have to need 10k to be able to see them. But creating a new section was too obvious for you, wasn't it? You just had to delete them. *smh*
Guilherme Rdems on July 21, 2012 5:31 AM386 answers for that crap and none for [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11592009/understanding-assumptions-about-machine-word-size-in-analyzing-computer-algori) of mine .
Account Deleted on July 21, 2012 6:42 AMWe've started using "Jenga Stack" for the mental model you have to build up to work on complex code. This leads to statements like "Don't interrupt me right now... I've got a huge Jenga Stack built."
As far as Yoda Conditions, I hate them. Increased cognitive load (at least for english speakers, this is now how you normally think) to get around a quick of the language design and the compiler. C compilers have thrown warnings for assignments in if statements for YEARS.
Benvonhandorf on July 21, 2012 7:32 AMKinda funny...almost the same post on another blog (from about a year ago) using a lot of the same exact images...http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/yoda-conditions-pokemon-exception.html
Josh Love on July 21, 2012 8:05 AMI actually invented one at my workplace, for puzzle solving rather than programming---"piano": I had been stewing over the problem a while, then decided to take a break and go down the hall to get a cup of coffee, and while pouring the coffee, the solution just dropped on me like a cartoon piano would on Sylvester---sprung into my mind fully formed when I wasn't even thinking about it. After telling this to others, using the metaphor to explain what it felt like to me, suddenly the workplace is full of people having piano moments when they solve problems like that.
Not to be confused with "viola", where the solution is really simple--you solve it as soon as you see the problem, and using bad French, you announce, "Viola!"
Todd Vance on July 21, 2012 8:29 AMWhy is "Heisenbug" included in a list of the top 30 "most likely candidates for actual new programming jargon"? It's in the bloody Jargon File. It has a wikipedia entry, which you even linked to.
John Bange on July 21, 2012 9:09 AMOur "hooker code" is "George Michael", as in "that [feature, app, block, whatever] goes down more often than George Michael in a public restroom".
I coined it, AFWIW I actually think George is kinda cool, but still...
John on July 21, 2012 10:41 AMI think your description of the Smurf bug is wrong. It's not a problem that a whole bunch of objects share the same prefix, e.g. SmurfUser, SmurfUserOption, SmurfUserHistory... but when the prefix is the same as the classes' namespace... and you end up doing this:
etc etc.
Philliprosstaylor.wordpress.com on July 21, 2012 12:26 PMClassic. I like your choice of illustrations.
Jeddak on July 21, 2012 2:29 PMSome time ago, I came up with "feral code", i.e. code that's gotten so wild it doesn't obey you anymore. Don't ever try taming it, even approaching it, don't try to predict its behaviour... In short, the only viable path out of the problem is to get rid of the feral code for good.
function Inc(x) {
globalspace->something->completlydifferent = 'not so good';
return +x;
Program an interface not an implementation.
Roger Keulen on July 21, 2012 3:23 PM'Duck' is from Robert Venturi's architectural theory book Learning from Las Vegas, 1977
Zach on July 21, 2012 4:35 PMGreat list. We have a few we use around the office that are related to code and others related to working at a large organization. I challenge you to guess what a "pressed fruit basket" is as regards a manager's office. I use "duck", but I don't think I'd ever use "mad girlfriend bug" in front of my business unit given the preponderance of women. Or at all, given it's sort of rude to many programmers I respect. I see Interfect Prime thought the same thing.
Snrky Snrky on July 21, 2012 5:30 PMOne of the few things I don't love about StackExchange is the occasional drool slurping knowledge-elitist pretending that the site is some kind of library of congress or ivory tower to be kept innocent of things not perfectly fitting to the Q/A format. It's particularly bad when people use an acronym to refer to the person asking the question - WTF, seriously?
StackOverflow is one of the best things I've seen for the software development community in my 13 years in the field. It's great because it not only has what I need when I need it but it also has the occasional spirit-lifting humor like this.
I'll take HUMOR over HUBRIS any day -- don't throw the baby (above) out with the bathwater.
(And this list of 30 is hilarious!)
Kingdango on July 21, 2012 7:40 PMTo all of you who got annoyed at the question being deleted, you can all just make your own stack exchange site, or propose for a new one on area51.stackexchange.com. So I figured I would just go ahead and do it. Hopefully enough people will like the idea to actually make it come to life.
I liked the idea of demotivating fun of SO. It happened a lot that when I started with SO and I used to post weird and stupid questions, people used to make fun. A little fun is fine but it should not make you sound as if you have done something very stupid. Having said that, I invite you to have a look at my new blog Jeff.
Account Deleted on July 22, 2012 12:02 AMOh, and the Yoda condition example isn't the classic one; the real reason Yoda notation sprung up is because of the idiomatic usage of
CONSTANT.equals(variable)in Java, especially with Strings but also wrapped primitives like Integer, so that if the variable reference is null you don't get a NullPointerException. Using Yoda notation for primitives is generally not done as it doesn't read well. Gizmo on July 22, 2012 1:07 AM
12. Nopping
In the 90s this term was used to describe a style of cracking whereby the cracker would short circuit the license check by writing 0x90 (the assembler NOP instruction in Intel assembler) over the code that calls the license check function.
Nopping was a derogatory term since real crackers don't change the existing code. Real crackers understand the key generation process and write key generators.
Mike Janzen on July 22, 2012 7:53 AMThe reason you *have* to have this sort of post is because the moderators are far too delete-happy. That's going to be the ultimate destruction of the entire StackOverflow ecosystem as the deletionists piss off all the contributors by deleting everything. Why not save time and delete the entire site?
Tangurena on July 22, 2012 8:45 AM#29 is brilliant!
Dan Riti on July 22, 2012 3:39 PM@js - Is that all what you did for last twenty years? Changing other people's code into "Egyptian Style"? What a moron.
Sean on July 22, 2012 4:54 PMHow come nobody ever asks why can't Reddit be more like Stack Exchange instead of why can't Stack Exchange be like everyone else?
Why do people fight so hard to make Stack Exchange be something it wasn't designed for when the things they fight for already exist in every corner of the Internet?
One of the very many things that I love about Go is that it mandates Egyptian style braces. And it does so for a very good reason, I might add.
Adam on July 22, 2012 6:47 PMI'll throw out the "Amsterdam Report". Something we started around our office...
End user reports a bug such as "The values on screen X are wrong" - without providing any additional information...
I equated it as the user was trying to drive from LA to New York - and they ended up in Amsterdam - and they have no idea (or at least didn't describe) why/how they ended up there.
Thus anytime an "Amsterdam (Bug) Report" comes in - it's generally greeted with a developer saying, "Welcome to Amsterdam!"
I could have lived at a college when studying at university, which by my reading of Wikipedia is the same as a "frat house" in US-speak. http://www.usq.edu.au/accommodation/steelerudd
So more examples of different jargon in different places? :)
Years ago when I was working in Ireland I developed a habit of marking anything not yet configured in a configuration file and in code with the string "here be dragons".
[mail servers]
smtp="here be dragons"
This had the simple advantage that one could search all config files for "dragons" to find items not yet configured (maybe the SMTP server wasn't known yet but now is).
After a while I and later others started referring to a status where an application was installed but not yet configured as having dragons, as in "Module X is installed but some dragons remain".
Now in Switzerland another interesting term developed, more or less by accident. The German equivalent of the English term "text book" (as in "ideal") is "picture book". Our test environment installation people have a habit of taking screenshots of anything that didn't work or confused them during installation of our application. (That was very useful.) They then sent us the screenshots so we could resolve those issues or explain them away.
And now an installation routine that is particularly buggy is referred to as a "picture book installation" (again, think "text book installation").
Ajbrehm on July 23, 2012 1:44 AMOnly 2k LOC in a megamoth? I've worked on code which had one method which was ~10k LOC :( It also had up to 17 levels of nested conditional/loop. This is what happens when assembly programmers are let loose on higher-level languages without any reigning-in :P
David Gardner on July 23, 2012 1:59 AMIn my first job we had to write "bus-proof" code. That meant plenty of documentation and everything saved safely into config control.
The idea is that anyone on a project could be knocked down by a bus on the way home, and the project simply must go on with nothing lost.
Jason Judge on July 23, 2012 2:22 AMInstead of rubber ducking, we use the Inflatable Programmer: the one that sits down next to you, listen to your explanation, says nothing and you realize where the problem is. When you turn to thank him, he looks back with empty eyes and mouth wide open.
Francesco Pongiluppi on July 23, 2012 4:33 AMDunno if this is new or not "Chernobyl code" for code that seals old legacy stuff in concrete to provide a new API or calling mechanism whilst hiding the old implementation details.
Also, is there a name for C++ code written by a Java developer? You know, where they are wordy (smurfy) as hell and bring across all the introspection naming conventions when introspection isn't available?
Liversedge on July 23, 2012 5:05 AM> And we have "hooker code", which relies on the idea of prostitutes as > unclean and unsafe.
Ah, now i get what they want to imply.
The first association i had was something along "you have to pay every time", like Mac-appstore vs. a debian repository.
Maybe it's a regional thing, i'm from "liberal" Europe ;)
> This language says a lot about programmer culture.
> We have "Jimmy", the clueless new programmer, who is male
> because programmers are male by default.
Which is, at least in most countries i know of, just a true observation. Furthermore, if it were Jane, i bet that would lead accusations of implying female programmers are less competent.
So, what name should we use to antropomporhize Cluelessness? As Jimmy's sigh proves, _no_ name does not "target" at least one person.
> We have the "mad girlfriend bug", which programmers can empathize
> with because they are straight males who know what it is like to
> have a mad girlfriend.
But, besides the empathizing, it communicates a recognizable metaphor, that, i'd argue, even asexual people of any sex will get, because of it's pervalence in sit coms, movies etc.
It's like "Herculean Task", it doesnt matter that the Greek Gods are a myth as long as the meaning is transported.
I don't particularly like the "Hooker Code", because it seems to me like bitching about Prostitution witout adding worth to the metaphor, but objecting die Jimmy seems a little bit paranoid to me.
Keppla on July 23, 2012 6:00 AM"I didn't wrote that code! The Me In The Past did!".
You In The Past – it's not you: you don't know what he did and why. Maybe that You In The Past person was kind enough to leave messages (comments) to other developers (including you now), but you can't be sure. One thing you should do: write comments and documentation NOW so that other developers (including the You In The Future) will be able to understand it!
Francesco Pongiluppi on July 23, 2012 6:57 AM@js I never comment on blogs but I had to because of your terrible comment. What you have said has shown everyone that you are a bad, stereotypical, wannabe programmer. Any good programmer will use the style they see already in the project they are on. And if they are lead they can choose (usually discussing it with the team or using company policy) the style to use. You don't just say some style is better and everyone using that style is an idiot for using it. I personally like brackets on new lines. The reason? I have worked like that on projects for years, it is always the style I see. But when I see projects with Egyptian style (which you seem to also take offense to it being named that... I mean really?) I adapt (by pressing enter less!) and use that style.
Robbo on July 23, 2012 7:06 AMSpeaking of Egyption Brackets, I recently wanted to post a SO question (but don't have the nerve) asking why people still use Egyption Brackets because I thought that style died out years and years ago especially after Code Complete.
Brad Rembielak on July 23, 2012 7:27 AMI still use K&R formatting. But then I started writing like that in 1985. It really doesn't matter, the code compiles just the same.
But I guess some devs are more interested in presentation more than content -- says a lot about them as developers really.
Liversedge on July 23, 2012 8:01 AMStack Overflow and Stack Exchange should promote good questions instead of closing or deleting questions.
Or make a good designated place for deleted "too fun" questions to live! StackOverflowOverflow.
Usernamethree on July 23, 2012 9:14 AMI hadn't heard "Rubber Ducking." We call it "Code Therapy." You describe your coding problem to a workmate, and by the time you're done describing it, the answer has occurred to you.
Dtaflin on July 23, 2012 9:59 AMLemon
The parentheses without any parameters between them (). Used mainly for function calls. Either use a lemon to execute the function, or you'll get a pointer. This term was coined by my 9 year old daughter when she was reading code out loud over my shoulder.
Yoda Exception Handling: Do, or do not; there is no try.
Daniel Schaffer on July 23, 2012 10:41 AMI have a term for a particular type of overstuffed function or god object. I call it the 'duties as assigned.' Like an employee that gets hired to do a simple job, and then finds out that his job description also includes 'duties as assigned.'
Had a guy on a project who was supposed to write a function to do one simple thing, yet he decided to also use that function to accomplish every other task he felt needed to be achieved in the project.
Sledgehammer on July 23, 2012 12:22 PMCan I translate this to spanish? I want to use them around the place, but some of these are way too english for people to understand.
Oh and here in the office I coined what we call a "Maraña China" or "Chinese Mess" for when a code is s baly written and unformatted, that's basically unreadable or impossible to understand what it does.
Luis Robles on July 23, 2012 12:56 PMBrad Rembielak said:
Speaking of Egyption Brackets, I recently wanted to post a SO question (but don't have the nerve) asking why people still use Egyption Brackets because I thought that style died out years and years ago especially after Code Complete.
Actually Code Complete advocates the Egyptian style as I recall, which is one reason I started using it when writing C/C++ code. The reasoning is it makes blocks easier to distinguish if their shapes are like this:
As opposed to this:
And frankly it better matches many other languages like Ruby, Python and JavaScript. In fact it seems most JavaScript these days is written that way.
So while the name is perfectly fine, to act like this style is bad or out-of-date just shows one as being an unexperienced programmer.
Ryan Leavengood on July 23, 2012 1:05 PMYoda Conditions are a useful way to force the type of the comparison in dynamic languages, since the left-hand side usually gets to establish the type of the comparison when it could otherwise be ambiguous.
$num = "5";
if(5 == $num) { ... }
Even in statically-typed languages, you'll often have to cast a type, and Yoda Conditions make that more readable than a big Lispy pile of parentheses.
if(1 == (int)dr["num"]) { ... } // already has two pair parens
if(((int)dr["num"]) == 1) { ... } // too many parens
Stateful mental parsing of deeply nested parentheses seems a bigger problem than some Anglocentric difficulty with determining if two things are equal.
brianary on July 23, 2012 3:04 PM@js: I got in big trouble on one project when I "cleaned up" another programmer's code; mainly, bracket indentation. After much bruhaha, I ended up reverting all of my changes and changed my own style to fit the de facto project usage.
Gary Bivin on July 23, 2012 3:04 PMSQL used to actively promote Yoda conditions when you needed to compare a constant with the result of a subquery:
select stuff from foo where 500 = ( select sum(cost) from bar where id = 1 );
It used to be that you simply couldn't write the above WHERE expression in non-Yoda form, but things seem to have improved in recent years (e.g., the non-Yoda form now works in both Oracle and PostgreSQL).
Why? Because that's what the standard said. Orthogonal language design? Who needs that?
Nstanger on July 23, 2012 3:24 PMDiverge in parallel. A large block of code was copied from one program to another, back in ancient times. Any time a change goes into one, the same change must go into the other, but sometimes the changes are put in different places. Even though the routines do the same thing, and may even have the same lines of code (in a different order), applying patches to both is complicated by the fact that they have diverged in parallel.
Facebook on July 24, 2012 12:39 AMdon't touch my favourite Yoda conditions! it creates compiler error when you forget to add double == there.
Andrej Kvasnica on July 24, 2012 1:54 AMmeta-debugging /me-ta-de-bug-ging/
Verb: The practice of debugging by incessantly asking another programmer how to fix your bug.
Synonyms: stupid officemate - clueless programmer - irritating developer
Erle Czar Mantos on July 24, 2012 2:52 AMI love these -- thanks to everyone who shared.
FYI, the "duck" is also known as a "hairy arm." The reference is from commercial art, where the artist purposefully depicts a lovely model with one hairy arm, the goal being to afford his boss a modicum of "added value."
Lambetd on July 24, 2012 5:16 AMPachinko code
Long extraneous code coded with multiple conditional statements that allows control to fall through going in and out of conditions.
thepurpleone on July 24, 2012 5:48 AM@Lu Dicrus
"Dear Diary Version Control" for the practice of using a (D)VCS as your personal save-every-three-minutes notepad.
"Received a Banana"
I was trying to explain to a sales guy that when we asked what to do on failure, we did not mean that we received a "No" from the api, as in he could not sell, where a "Yes" would be success, but that we considered both "Yes" and "No" success, and we considered silence (api down), or "Banana" (unexpected garbage) as failure.
There are four answers to a yes/no question.
Yes, No, Silence, Banana
Thus our it/networking team starting using the phrase "Got a Banana" whenever the incoming response made no sense.
Jwindberg on July 24, 2012 9:53 AMEgyptian code sucks because (a) it doesn't visually diagram variable scope the way the alternative does, and (b) because when things get hairy, the more complex a block is, the more confused the brackets and the programmer get. There have been many times I've fixed a bug just by new-lining Egyption brackets, instantly revealing that the original programmer wasn't in the part of the loop he thought he was.
Leekirkhawley on July 24, 2012 12:50 PMHey #15! Pretty sure this is the most famous I'll ever be.
Mike Robinson on July 24, 2012 3:26 PMThis article is a damn plagiarism. Here's the older source that includes all the "fun stackoverflow jargon" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6504/a_game_studio_culture_dictionary.php
Account Deleted on July 24, 2012 11:50 PMi like to describe code as brokeass when it is so jacked up you can't do anything with it ...
...and hackasm when you know you hacked something but it felt great pulling off a solution ...
...and he verne troyered the code ... taking a big-ass class and making it like 3 lines...
@Morphineoverdose, that article was not even remotely similar to this one, with the exception of two terms: Egyptian Brackets and Yoda Conditionals.
Deany Nasseri on July 25, 2012 8:51 AMI know that Baklava has more layers, but I prefer the term lasagna code because of the obvious relation to spaguetti code.
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The Shanghai News and Publishing Bureau reported the novels sales were second behind a biography of Deng Xiaoping, a politician and reformist leader of the Communist Party, in the "good books" category.
Haven't read it but I hope it's better than bloody 'Ulysses'. That might as well have been written in Chinese for all the understanding I got from it.
I am not in a position at the moment to deal with the fidelity of the translation to the original but Dai Congrong definitely has a fine sense of humor ti take on this Sisyphean task! Heartfelt congratulations to the professor.
I can't even begin to imagine what the translator did in order to make Finnegan's Wake readable, much less understandable for any reader.


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A Traitor Painted a Hero
In today's world of moral relativism, the media frequently reverses labels and agendas. Good men are made the villain. Villains are made good men. Heros are made traitors and traitors are made heros. After spending thousands of words to claim God is a proponent of gay marriage, Newsweek works hard to paint a traitor as a hero. Meet Thomas Tamm. Mr. Tamm is the man | Read More »


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The Real Meaning of Christmas
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One of the most remarkable stories of Christmas comes from one of the darkest moments of modern history. World War I ravaged a continent, leaving destruction and debris in its wake. The human cost, well in the millions, staggers us. But from the midst of this dark conflict comes the ... Keep Reading
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In John 13:34, shortly before His crucifixion, Jesus tells His disciples: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another." What type of love was Jesus speaking of here? Not the type of fickle love displayed in the media each day. No, He was speaking of a sacrificial love, the love that He has for us. He loved us so much that He gave up His own life so that we may live eternally. Keep Reading -
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Eternal life means I have God's supernatural grace within me that enables me to live the Christian life. His power strengthens me to run the race in a way that glorifies Him. Paul said, "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13). God's power indwells us in the person of the Holy Spirit, whom we received at our conversion. Our problem is that we so often fail to tap into His power that is always there. We are like the man who was pushing his car up a hill only to discover he merely needed to turn the key and ignite the powerful engine. How much better it is to turn on the power and enjoy the ride. So it is in the Christian life. Keep Reading -
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With its final episode airing recently we heard an awful lot lately about Breaking Bad, a program that told the fictional story of a high school teacher and family man who becomes a vicious killer and cooker of meth. Like watching a car wreck we all have a morbid interest, to mix a metaphor, in moral crash landings. We click on the links that tell us of the atrocities committed by Muslims against their own Christian neighbors. Our ears perk up when the news reports about the Ohio daycare worker who committed unspeakable acts on her charge. We want to know, what could possibly make a person do such a thing? Keep Reading -
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Holiness consists in conformity to Christ. Calvin writes, "Because the Father has reconciled us to Himself in Christ, therefore He commands us to be conformed to Christ as to our pattern." Indeed, he continues, "Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure Him as our Savior." Keep Reading


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7Digital sells 50% to HMV
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009HMV has had a great 2009, with the closure of two of its main rivals in the UK, Zavvi and Woolworths, its been able to posture itself as the only real mainstream music, film and game retailer on the UK High Street. Along with this new commercial reality they have been able to focus more on their games portfolio and grow on the back of the expansion of that market.
However, they know as well as anyone, that as we continue to move into a world of digital downloads their business model will slowly evaporate. Music, as we know, can now be downloaded or streamed directly into devices, whether it be Nokia 'Comes with Music' phones, the Iphone/Itouch family of devices or games consoles which are now starting to push full price product through their online distribution solutions.
Hence they have invested and purchased 50% of 7Digital a UK based online retailer and distribution solutions company. 7Digital is an online retailer which also has a music streaming service. It is yet to turn a profit and is operating in crowded market place alongside companies such as Spotify (streaming) and Itunes, Amazon and many others for downloads.
This deal with HMV is wider than just music though. HMV also owns Waterstones a leading book retailer which in recent years has been trying to find its way in the digital world, playing 'catch up' to Amazon. 7Digital's technology and services will allow HMV to launch an online book store and leverage the audience 7Digital already claims to have along with the current consumer base HMV and Waterstones have access to.
Yet, why go to their store? What USP will it have? Itunes were the first and their software and hardware combo are superb. Additionally they now sell a wealth of other content through the Itunes store which again gets nicely organised into their software. Amazon and Wallmart sell everything you can think of online and their music stores are there to add value and perhaps pick up extra sales. They have been very successful. But why go to the HMV/7Digital store? Will they have exclusive content? Will there be some unique software that makes their experience high value and too good to miss for the educated content consumer?
Im doubtful, and I would imagine that to some degree the HMV management are yet to come up with the answers. Perhaps the aim is to provide back end services to other businesses that want to sell content and not focus on a direct to consumer relationship themselves. As one of the last large 'content' retailers on the high street it will be a fascinating 5 years to see how they manage to progress from being in the physical world of business to moving to an online proposition.
Perhaps their overall strategy is to hedge their bets and add value to HMV so that they become an attractive purchase for another company, perhaps a hardware manufacturer who needs to add a digital distribution element to their business model. This would be similar to when Nokia bought Loudeye a digital music service, which then evolved into the Nokia Comes with Music proposition. For example, if Sony bought HMV, they would overnight gain access to a music store, ebook store and physical stores, some of which could be shut down, and others transformed into their versions of the Apple Store equivalent.


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There are many more options, but which products worked the best for making you horny?
Honestly this might be a bit weird, but divanil worked pretty good for me....even compared to test. Havent seen many other reports that would agree with me however.
Oh and porn, I really like porn.
test e and tri tren...shwing!!!
Anything that increases dht would work well.
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DAA and hcgenerate.
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I second this notion!Originally Posted by whitepsycho
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Noob looking for alot of guidance
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Where I come from we call those grenades, and you sir sound like you'd be a MOH recipient for jumping on them... lol...
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Reviews by hckyfn9999:hckyfn9999Missouri 3.4/5 rDev -2.6% look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5 Pours black with a couple finges of tan colored head that sticks around for a bit but leaves virtually no lacing. Aroma of anise of course as well as dark fruit and cocoa. Taste is dominated by anise. There is a bit of flavor from the oak chips and a bit of cocoa powder with a dry, roasted bitterness on the finish. Excited to try this, a bit disappointed with the result. Serving type: bottle 07-16-2011 02:23:12 | More by hckyfn9999 More User Reviews:AlieniloquiumFlorida 2.95/5 rDev -15.5% look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5 650 mL bottle poured into a snifter. Reviewed from notes. Appearance - Inky black with a khaki collar and a few islands of foam. Smell - Black licorice. Sweet. Faint chocolate. Train wreck of a smell. I keep going back for more whiffs even though it's terrible. Taste - Fruity. Anise is strong, amplifying the fruity flavors. Chocolate and bitter aftertaste. Not anywhere near as bad as the taste. Mouthfeel - Lots of fruit without being overly sweet though. A lingering anise flavor. Not too boozy. Overall - It's not awful, but the anise is a huge detractor. I expected something unpalatable from the reviews. Serving type: bottle 12-02-2013 10:55:34 | More by Alieniloquium TBoneJonesTexas 4.28/5 rDev +22.6% look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25 Stone Belgo Anise RIS 2011 Slick black pour, rich cappuccino head of two finger widths. Body near solid black. Now when I hold my pint to some light i see on the edge of the inside of the glass some tan floating objects, and even more sitting on the bottom as I lift up the glass and look underneath, these objects look like large sawdust chunks. Interesting. No cork involved here. Part of Stone's craft I suppose. Smells nice with slight anise and powdery milk chocolate. Muted scent, but nice what's there. This tastes a little nicer than I remember the first and only other time I tried it, and it just must be the age i put on this one (2 yrs.). Milk chocolate smoothness, and the anise seems more tame and lends a creamy note somehow, with the anise more resembling now a syrupy bite reminding me of Bosco syrup as if I'm tasting it in an egg cream. I didnt expect to like it this much now, given my prior mediocre thoughts on the initial taste of once having it fresh years past. As it warms i pick up more licorice, and I'm one who does like licorice. Maybe that factor is the dividing line between promoters & detractors of Stone's BARIS, who knows. More warming and here comes the Sambuca sensation, but althewhile this feels creamy and smooth. There is a lingering burning sensation in my mouth after the taste, somewhat odd and numbing, but I'll chalk it up to the anise. I'm sure not for everyone, but yes for me and only with some age. Serving type: bottle 10-06-2013 01:01:18 | More by TBoneJones JgrodyCalifornia 4.48/5 rDev +28.4% look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5 Pours Dark and thick, with a brown lacy head. Smells of anise, chocolate, roasted coffee. Tastes like a chocolate root beer. I bought a bunch of them. They are aging nicely. The warmness of the alcohol is mellowing out and more anise and chocolate flavors are coming through. I also recommend this with a scoop of chocolate ice cream, making a beer float! Serving type: bottle 09-11-2013 17:07:53 | More by Jgrody gillagorillaMaryland 4.05/5 rDev +16% look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4 22 oz. bottle poured into a Burley Oak snifter (so glad to find this one) A: Pitch black all the way through with a nice slightly mocha head that is about 1 finger thick but disappears pretty quickly. Also, it pours with a lot of tiny bubbles that stick to the sides of the glass. S: Reminds me of the Belgian Yeti. It is quite sweet with just a hint of licorice in there (anise) with just a hint of malts. There is a subtle undertone of roasted malts aged on oak as well. T: Wow, very interesting. This tastes like what I imagine a much better version of the Belgian Yeti would taste like, maybe this is what it would taste like if it had anise in it. Lots of belgian sweetness (like a tripel or quad) with notes of anise. There is quite a lot of oak in there as well. It almost tastes different with each sip. It is a swirl of anise, sweet malts, belgian yeastiness, and a bit of roastiness with oak. No alcohol burn at all. The worse part is definitely the tangy aftertaste but you don't really start to notice it until about halfway through the bottle. It is very belgian and tangy. M: Quite prickly and coarse. It is a bit syrupy but has a nice level of carbonation that helps out alot. O: I can see where all of the love it or hate it comes from with this beer. It has a very polarizing flavor profile. I was so surprised to find this so long after it was released (they must have kept like 20 of them in the back for a while). I wonder what this tasted like fresh though. Serving type: bottle 08-13-2013 18:44:16 | More by gillagorilla |
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Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of muscle fibers that leads to the release of muscle fiber contents (myoglobin) into the bloodstream. Myoglobin is harmful to the kidney and often causes kidney damage.
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O'Connor FG, Deuster PA. Rhabdomyolysis. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 114.
Remuzzi G, Perico N, DeBroe ME. Acute kidney injury. In: Brenner BM, ed. Brenner and Rector's the Kidney. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 29.
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Here's how RW members rated this race (201 votes).
In short: Good race with an interesting hill! Annoying that the start was delayed by 10mins due to dealing with on the day entrants. It was very cold and windy at the start so the 10min wait was not appreciated. Headwind along the sea front was challenging.Date of review: March 6, 2011
In short: That wind!In full: Well done to the two really enthusiastic female marshals at about 11 miles. I found the wind really challenging and this prevented me from getting a good time. My husband was at the front and marshals didn't direct him in two places, which meant that he and several others had to be directed back onto the course, which needs addressing for next year. Also need to sort out the water stations, as the cup I picked up from one (there was no one there to hand it out) was empty! These small issues aside, this is a friendly race and I welcomed the banana and choice of chocolate at the end.Date of review: March 6, 2011
In short: well organised, though late start in the cold was not idealIn full: This is always a well organised event and lived up to that this year - the only blip being the unexplained 15 minute delay at the start, which was probably the more annoying because it was so cold. The course is a good one, with the hill at 3 miles and the long run down the seafront into a headwind making it surprisingly challenging. Very well marshalled and I thought that the chocolate at the end was a nice idea. Ideal start/ finish in the park with ample car parking nearby and pleny of toilets both at the start and en route. I will certainly be back for this one again.Date of review: March 6, 2011
In short: Why the wait ?In full: I know the organisers could do nothing about the weather, which was very cold and windy, but why did we have to wait an extra 15 mins on the start line ? If people are entering late then I'm sorry that's their fault and we should not have been kept waiting. That aside, the course was fairly flat apart from a killer hill between mile 2 and 3. Plus a good choice of chocolate bars at the end !Date of review: March 6, 2011
In short: Well organised, but so cold!In full: There was a sharp wind before the start making it very cold whilst waiting for the start, and a short delay didn't help.Overall a well organised race.Date of review: March 6, 2011
In short: My FirstIn full: My first and at 2.13 Im sure a good PB, There was only a few beans left with the water sations and no choc bars at the end, oh well my girlfriend was on hand with choc cake !!Date of review: March 10, 2010
In short: A great run with excellent organisation - chocolate at the end so simple and yet so effective!Date of review: March 10, 2010
In short: Fantastic Sea Front Half!In full: What a difference a fortnight makes. So down after Brighton, so happy after Eastbourne. Well organised, well Marshalled, well supported, medal and Mars bar and the end perfect! Date of review: March 8, 2010
In short: Excellent run by the seaside. Watch out for the very steep hill to beachy head!In full: Excellent run and well organised. The wind is very cutting when you get to the seafront but the views are worth it. The very steep hill up to beachy head is at mile 2-3 but it is all downhill and flat for the rest of the race. All in all, well worth the effort. Date of review: March 8, 2010
In short: Very well organised and a race for everyoneIn full: The organisers of the Eastbourne half seem to have stepped up their game a notch. Not that there was anything wrong with it before, but the extra finishing touches like chocolate and sweets and an overall smooth operation made this a very nice race for all levels.Date of review: March 8, 2010