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Re: Unsuck It (2010)

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Post by jefftk »

reaperducer wrote: post #24
jefftk wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be dull: "above the fold" means visible on the initial page view, without any scrolling.

Which made sense when everyone was browsing at 800x600. But these days who knows what the size of an initial page view is. Not just devices, but windows within those devices.

Publishers have good information on a per ad slot basis telling them how likely they are to be initially on screen. It's not yes/no, the way it would be if everyone's screen was the same size or on a physical newspaper, but percentages are still useful.

Mostly people use viewability instead: https://headerbidding.co/mrc-viewability-standards/

Re: Unsuck It (2010)

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Post by astrea »

reaperducer wrote: post #30
astrea wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those aren't even jargon, they're just words a well-educated person would know.

It's not about education or vocabulary. It's about using words to make yourself sound important, when you're not. The problem is that people who don't have a good vocabulary abuse these words and change their meaning for self-serving purposes, and not to communicate.

Perhaps that's just projections of your own insecurities and those words are just simply what come to mind for them or find the most descriptive.

Re: Unsuck It (2010)

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Post by gherkinnn »

It's not necessarily the words themselves, but the type of person who is associated with them. And I hate it when a word I like gets appropriated by unlikable people.

"Touch base" and "Bio break" are an exception. Makes me squeal every time, no matter who uses them.

Re: Unsuck It (2010)

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

tyingq wrote: post #9

I imagine our pointy-haired bosses would appreciate an "unsuck it" for tech jargon, with stuff like: orthagonal -> unrelated immutable -> unchangeable idempotent -> (is there a very short phrase that works here?)

"Hey, you're an idempotent kind of person: all I need to know about you I learned on day 1, and nothing's changed since then." /s

Re: Unsuck It (2010)

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Post by gherkinnn »

tyingq wrote: post #9

I imagine our pointy-haired bosses would appreciate an "unsuck it" for tech jargon, with stuff like: orthagonal -> unrelated immutable -> unchangeable idempotent -> (is there a very short phrase that works here?)

Got me.

But I like to think that using precise technical terms such as "idempotent" is perfectly fine. "Immutable", works as well, since you have "mutable", and "mutation" to go with it. Both also carry a lot of contextual information that make them hard to replace.

(There has to be a proper linguistic term to describe these properties)

"Touch base" is none of those things. Ever.

Re: Unsuck It (2010)

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Florin_Andrei wrote: post #35
tyingq wrote: post #9

I imagine our pointy-haired bosses would appreciate an "unsuck it" for tech jargon, with stuff like: orthagonal -> unrelated immutable -> unchangeable idempotent -> (is there a very short phrase that works here?)

"Hey, you're an idempotent kind of person: all I need to know about you I learned on day 1, and nothing's changed since then." /s

Does this work too?

"Hey, you're an idempotent kind of person: all you think you need to know about me you learned on day 1, and nothing's changed since then."

Re: Unsuck It (2010)

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Post by woodrowbarlow »

jasonv wrote: post #20
fbelzile wrote: post #2

This is awesome. It has my favorite one: "ping me" Man, I hated hearing this. Just use normal words, please.

I don't mind that one, but "rockstar" in job descriptions drives me batty. As do "send it" and "stan". So, it's across all cultural borders these days.

when someone says "rockstar programmer" i hear "doesn't play well with others".

Re: Unsuck It (2010)

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Post by andi999 »

reaperducer wrote: post #23
tyingq wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know I'm venturing off-topic here, but I believe "above the fold" in the newspaper world referred to story prominence on the front page rather than advertising. I don't recall, even long ago, seeing ads on real newspapers that were both front-page and "above the fold" . I imagine "above the fold" wasn't related to advertising until the web existed.

This applied only to broadsheets (New York Times), and not to newspapers that used tabloid layout (Chicago Sun-Times). The reason "above the fold" was valuable real estate was because whatever was there would be visible in newspaper vending machines, newspaper racks, and the stacks at kiosks. Newspapers that printed on tabloid-sized paper didn't have that problem, since they were not folded horizontally. Tabloid news…

Reminds me of who reads British newspapers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

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