• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I call everything a script. Makes the Java devs real mad. Makes the PM’s super confused.

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    I fought hard against that for years. I still only use ‘app’ for phone programs, but I stopped correcting people every time they used the term for anything else. It isn’t technically wrong, but it grates on my nerves for some reason.

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      14 days ago

      Windows is the first thing I can think of that used the word “application” in that way, I think even back before Windows could be considered an OS (and had a dependency on MS-DOS). Back then, the Windows API referred to the Application Programming Interface.

      Here’s a Windows 3.1 programming guide from 1992 that freely refers to programs as applications:

      Common dialog boxes make it easier for you to develop applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system. A common dialog box is a dialog box that an application displays by calling a single function rather than by creating a dialog box procedure and a resource file containing a dialog box template.

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        to develop applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

        Could they have meat “uses for the MS…”?

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        13 days ago

        Goddamn …. That is a thing of horrific beauty. I saved it immediately.

        (I’m a technical writer so it should be fun to go through this ancient tome)

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      14 days ago

      Interesting.

      The word ‘pan’, came to me from using 3D CAD software and I considered the Jib and Truck actions as ‘pan’ and the original Pan would be camera rotation, which might be ‘turn’ (didn’t use it as much so don’t remember) which was less favourable than using ‘orbit’.
      Good to know the word origin.

      Oh and btw, Dolly would not be zoom, but ‘walk’.

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    And now the kids don’t know what a file path is anymore. Legit my wife is a professor, and she gets adeer in the headlight look when she is helping students debug code and she mentions a file path not being right in there code.

    Serious response, no joke… what’s a file path?

    These are sophomores and Juniors in college.

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      These are sophomores and Juniors in college.

      … Who grew up in a world where computer internals were abstracted away so you never needed to know what a file was or even that they exist. I wouldn’t know what a file was either if I didn’t grow up in exactly the right time frame and have a dad who hoarded DOS PCs.

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        I lucked out having a dad who’s into computers so I had the chance to tinker with his old stuff since I was a little bwoah.

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    What I hate even more, is that the morons who can’t read more than two syllables decided to shorten “application” to “app”, but now I only ever hear people reading that as “ay pee pee”! What was the fucking point?

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      I’ve literally never heard anyone call it A.P.P. (and I mean that literally literally, not figuratively literally)

      Is this a specific cultural thing? A generational thing? Geography based slang? Why would anyone do this.

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      I mean, I’m pretty sure this is extremely widespread in China, so I’d say it’s more cultural than anything else. In fact, since there are so many Chinese, that probably means more people call it A.P.P. than app. But I honestly have no clue, and it doesn’t matter to me either way. Words change. It’s nothing to get bent out of shape about.

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    On the flipside, “Bot” is the backend for almost everything that I’ve dealt with recently.

    “We need the data moved from X to Y, can someone make a bot for that?”

    Internal suffering

    “… Yes. We can setup an API between X and Y.”

    “Great! We also want a bot to generate daily reports from Y”

    Suffering intensifies

    “… Ok.”

    I don’t even try to fight it anymore.

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    The other day I realized they did that because its APPle. I have no evidence but I’m sticking with it

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    In the Netherlands basically everyone uses whatsapp. In the beginning people would say send me a whatsapp or something like that. But pretty quickly people started to shorten it to just app. So people will say stuff like I just got an app (instead of message), it drives me nuts. Like my family chat group is called “app group”.

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    14 days ago

    The script is compiled to a program which is then executed by the OS.

    ->

    The app is appified to an app which is then apped by the app.

    Damnit.

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    Web browser? “app”. Web page? “app”. Dialog box? “app”. Phone app that’s just a thin shell for the web site? “appapp”.

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    I felt like I was alone in being frustrated at this trend. However I found a bit of relief to discover, through messing around in a Win98 virtual machine, that they were occasionally using the term “app” back then as well. Of course it wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is now, but whatever.

    Also I thought I’d never see the Xbox kid meme again. What an unexpected throwback!