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Developers really do have a language of their own, one which can be hard for non-developers to decipher. A terse sentence fired over IM can communicate reams of information.

"It's a kludge, but put the tuple from the database in the cache."

The problem is — as this video shows — even developers themselves can have a hard time understanding each other.


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On 13 November 2007 Guy Fraser said:

Adaptavist have similar geek talk that I ended up creating a glossary for recently: https://www.adaptavist.com/display/~gfraser/Adaptavist+Glossary

What surprised me is that most of our documented terminology revolves around our "determination to make things work, no matter what". A fairly large percentage of the terms are for "blowing off steam" to enable us to quickly get back to the task at hand.

On 13 November 2007 Mike Roberts said:

Add the works 'Linux' and ... urrrm ... 'Jira' in here and you've got a winner!

On 13 November 2007 Charles Miller said:

JIRA is pronounced consistently throughout Atlassian.

Confluence, on the other hand...