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David MacIver on Life Skills for Programmers

Commonplace Expertise

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Fly Fucking - The Fly Is So Small You Still Want to Fuck It

Ixin is an engineering manager. He uses the term 'fly focking' to refer to a programme that pounces on irrelevant examples and argues over them for 30 minutes. Ixin says he has no idea what fly focking is, but it's very useful as a concept in conversation with other engineers.

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