Interesting terms heard at work over the past few weeks. Some of them have specialized technical meaning, in context, but have entirely different meaning if heard elsewhere.
- Perishable Skills - Skills that you have to practice, otherwise they get lost over time. I am an Eagle Scout and used to know how to tie all sorts of knots. These days, I remember a handful--square, clove hitch, lark's head, bowline--but, for the life of me, cannot remember the figure-8 knot because it has been too long.
- Alchemy - Used to describe my tea making ritual. I scoop some loose-leaf tea into a funky Adagio Teapot, fill it with water, wait, and later set that on top of my mug, releasing tea through a valve in the bottom. Everyone else just drinks from the office coffee machine or uses tea bags.
- Soft Core - No, not porn. A chip with reprogrammable gates that can be instantly configured to emulate any number of processors via software.
- Endian - Not dots, not feathers, but something as boring as byte-ordering of the numbers used by chips.
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