And of course the pinnacle of geekdom is to be known as a 'poodle', or one who is skilled in being skilled; a fu-fu.Damn', I appear to be posting drunk again ...
2009/1/30 Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...@gmail.com> > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:06 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:49 AM, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> >> wrote: >> > Pardon my ignorance, but exactly what does _fu mean WRT Ruby plugins, >> > gems and such? >> > >> > I have run across this suffix a number of times in Ruby and Rails, >> > always in connection with some add-on or extension. In the original >> > context that I encountered '_fu' I inferred that it probably stood for >> > file upload. However, its widespread use in other contexts evidently >> > disproves this interpretation. So, does it have a meaning? Does it >> > derive from the foo in foobar? Does it stand for functional update? Or, >> > is it an obscure cultural reference to Ruby's Japanese origins? >> >> http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200601/25/eng20060125_238295.html >> >> > And of course according to the last meaning of Fu in that article*, the > technical meaning of Fu is > > Fu is having the ability to run Windows applications on Linux or OS X. > <G> > > > * "Fu is having wine" > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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