by gtkSpeRt December 27, 2003
Get the Spedification mug.A natural law that dictates that the depth and accuracy of your task description is inversely proportional to the importance of the task. You will be given a ten-page written specification on preparing an invitation for five customers to come to morning coffee, a tax audit report will be requested in an email consisting of a single paragraph, while a request to revise the organization's entire cost structure will be delivered verbally in a single sentence.
CEO: Bernie, our database manager left and we need a report of all customers who bought semi-spleeted widgets in the northwest region since the beginning of the month. There's a potentially fatal fault and we need to do a product recall.
Bernie: Sure, right away! What's the product code for semi-spleeted widgets, and what's the region code?
CEO: Dunno. The database manager left. But it's all in the database. Just do it.
Bernie: Hmmm... the inverse specificity law indicates that this task must be critically important!
Bernie: Sure, right away! What's the product code for semi-spleeted widgets, and what's the region code?
CEO: Dunno. The database manager left. But it's all in the database. Just do it.
Bernie: Hmmm... the inverse specificity law indicates that this task must be critically important!
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A CSS rule that states that in case of conflict, the properties of the most specific selector is applied.
For example: if we make all tables bold, but make all table cells have a normal weight, the latter rule will be applied. This is because "table cell" is more specific than "table".
by Pathoschild March 21, 2005
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(In my mind):”I’m being specifically correct”
(In my mind):”I’m being specifically correct”
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Term originally created in 1945 by Albert Einstein.
Term originally created in 1945 by Albert Einstein.
“I told you!” Gabriel said, “I was at the park with my friends, specifically montecito!”
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“You whore! You promised me last time you would stop! I’m breaking up with you!”
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Get the Specificness mug.1. I just havent really ever thought of specificating what I do like about him.
2. Specificate what you want in life.
2. Specificate what you want in life.
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