olamity

Noun - a catastrophe of epic proportion; particularly in the deployment or maintenance of IT services or hardware, caused by utter incompetence or a fundamental lack of understanding of the underlying systems.

That crash was an olamity. It could've completely been avoided if he would have had any understanding of package management.

by badsfo March 03, 2011

disneyland

(verb) The act of using creative means to conceal the true length of a line or other wait.

The Sears Tower wasn't worth the trip, they totally disneylanded us.

by badsfo January 26, 2011

prodtesting

The foolish act of pushing untested software to production environments in order to "test" its functionality.

Similar to the "fuck it, run it" process in the high performance automotive field.

dev: We've got a new, super-awesome version of the gameserver that's going to fix all of our problems.

ops: Ok, let's get that out to QA and test it.

dev: Nah, we're prodtesting this one.

ops: ....

by badsfo May 14, 2014

comaline

Noun; a deadline there is little confidence will be met.

Don't stress about being ready Friday, everybody knows that's a comaline from the dev team.

by badsfo June 28, 2011

olamity

Noun - a catastrophe of epic proportion; particularly in the deployment or maintenance of IT services or hardware, caused by utter incompetence or a fundamental lack of understanding of the underlying systems.

That crash was an olamity. It could've completely been avoided if he would have had any understanding of package management.

by badsfo March 12, 2011