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Words for Snow

It is said that Yiddish has as many words for obnoxious people as the Eskimo people have words for snow. (There's a lot of controversy in "official circles" on the snow thing, but you get the picture.) I'm finding that there are even more words in hacker jargon for failure, in various flavors and colors. You have failure of people (to include companies and departments as well as individuals), failure of hardware, failure of software, and failure of various data elements. Each kind of failure has multiple possible causes, scenarios, and effects, and all of these lend immense nuance to each term, be it a noun, verb, adjective, whatever.

I'd link to all of the ones I've found so far, in the in-between times of training at NegiYo, but in all that time (and it has been a lot), I have only gotten halfway through the letter "C", and have already found so many that listing them here would take another week.

For instance, a brittle piece of software may be prone to choke and even go casters-up.  

 

 

 

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